Glenaboy Hero

The addition of Hero to our portfolio brings an ideal bull for farmers who apply pasture-based herd management. Hero originates from our partner Dovea Genetics in Ireland, a country where cow families and grazing are very important. In their sire directory, Dovea describes Hero as "You asked, we delivered!" In other words, there was high demand for a bull with the package of qualities offered by Hero, and he is now available.

Hero is a very well-balanced bull with dairy strength, sufficient width and good legs. He has a 87.5 % Holstein and 12.5 % Dutch Friesian pedigree, so his daughters out of 100% DF animals are also registered as 100% DF. His production breeding values are average milk production with very high component transmission. He scores extremely well for fertility and health traits in his Irish index. His sire Tinnakill Navigator is also a bull with high scores in Ireland and descends from a good cow family with excellent protein production.

Hero's cow family is showing an excellent performance in Ireland, with great improvement per lactation and very high component percentages. His dam, grand dam and others have good longevity partnered with good conformation and average stature. These cows have a fine bone structure and all have very good legs. His dam held the title of "IHFA (Irish Holstein Friesian Association) EBI dairy cow of the year 2021” thanks to her great yields and conformation.

Hero has aAa code 156 and is described as very well built. The complete package if you are looking for an ideal bull for grazing or outcross blood with more width!