Red Rocks Celebration

The best way to describe Red Rocks Celebration (Japan x Wisent x Sunfish) is as a bull who offers it all! To start with, Celebration himself has impressive, impeccable conformation. He can also trace his origins to the widely branched and now successful Massia line. And his “uncommon" lineage is certainly worth mentioning. With three successive generations of bulls that carry the red factor, and further back in the pedigree bulls such as Emerald and Mascol, black-and-white genes almost predominate. Another added bonus that Celebration brings is A2A2 for beta casein.

Celebration’s sire Japan Rf is one of the red factor carriers mentioned above. With Brentano as his sire and Malcolm (red factor) as his maternal sire, he even has two black-and-white sons in the last generations. Calves produced by Japan Rf are average to lightweight at birth. Japan also gives average stature with very good udders and legs. You can also rely on him for great udder health, fertility and durability. His best trait is perhaps his production heritability: milk in abundance with a small plus for protein.

While on the subject of production and protein, Celebration's maternal line excels in that department. The first milk yield list of Celebration’s dam Massia 155 (VG 86) is predicted to reach more than 11,000 kg of milk with almost 3.60% protein (LV 125). Her dam Massia 128 (VG 86) is also showing a promising performance in her third list (LV 125). Massia 128 is the result of a flush combining Sunfish and Ricardo daughter Massia 99 (VG 88 and the great grand dam of Celebration). Of the three female offspring produced by this flush (84, 86, and 86 points), Massia 128 is the most complete. A similar story can be said to apply to Celebration’s dam Massia 155. She too is also the result of embryo flushing and (her full sisters have been awarded 85 and 86 points) is the highlight so far of this trio. Her VG for conformation brings the total of VG cows in a row to nine generations!