Pabst ideal
Pabst Ideal (born April 7, 1961, departed after 1970) was a German Holstein Frisian - breeding bull . He was the first bull of American descent to be deployed in Germany. The bull had a particularly successful female offspring.
Pabst Ideal was born on the Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc , Wisconsin and imported to Germany in 1964. There it came into the possession of the RPN Bremen-Hanover. The bull weighed 1,150 kg and was 153 cm tall. In 1969 Pabst Ideal was the winning bull at the Stammbullenschau in Lehrte and a year later he received his elite recognition. While many of his daughters contributed to the acceptance of Holstein frisian crossbreeds into the German Holstein population with their excellent type and high milk yield, his sons were less successful with poor breeding values and a high degree of variation in type inheritance. Today it is assumed that the Pabst Ideal was a rather average bull and that his good transmission in his daughters was mainly due to the heterosis effect .
Nonetheless, the use of the bull was essential for the acceptance of the then North American Holstein Friesian in the German Holstein and later also Red Holstein breeding .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breeding Progress (ZFS) , p. 7
- ↑ Dairy cattle breeding for organic farms , p. 11
- ^ Breeding history of the German Holstein cattle : 11. Popular Holstein bulls owned by German insemination stations