Kian (beef)
Kian (born June 11, 1997; died 2013) was a rotbunter ( Red HF ) insemination bull . He was the first Red Holstein bull worldwide, of which more than a million servings were sold.
Kian was the son of a cow from the bull Skalsumer Sunny Boy and the bull Andries . So he had a purely Dutch descent with a 25% share of European Red Holstein blood. This was unusual at a time when almost all bulls had well over 95% Holstein-Frisian blood. Already after his first breeding value in 2002 he was among the ten best bulls in most breeding value lists worldwide. By 2008 he had produced a million servings of sperm . Up to his death there were 1.4 million. These had been exported to all of Europe, South Africa, North America and New Zealand.
Kian was considered a bull, its relatively long-lived compared to animals other bulls daughters a high protein content and good foundations inherited. Several of his sons were also used for insemination.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ cop card
- ↑ Top agrar : Red Holstein bull Kian is dead , June 28, 2013 (accessed November 25, 2014)