We believe Dulverton Valhalla V088 to be the best bull in this the “V” sale draft. V088 has outstanding “eye appeal” and exhibits exemplary structural soundness. V088 has a wonderful head that portrays ideal Angus character, including plenty of width between the eyes and across the muzzle, a very well hooded eye and minimal hair. V088’s frame pattern is spot on, being medium plus, for both height and extension, in addition he has plenty of body capacity. It’s this capacity which includes plenty of width/depth across the chest floor that promotes another of his features, that being Doability. Note the soft and pliable skin plus slick, fine textured hair. Rising two year old bulls at Dulverton aren’t ever awarded a Grade7 unless they have near perfect feet, V088 scores 24 for both front and back feet, don’t see that very often, the feet are a function of the inclusion of Dulverton Larry L154 in the maternal pedigree, Larry has been the master of passing on depth of heel while maintaining hock angle. V088’s pelvic set up is as close to ideal as we can hope for, note the gradual “roll” from hip to pin bones plus the preferred width between those pins, can’t express enough the importance of this set up to assist in promoting calving ease.
DULVERTON VALHALLA V088 is this years WOW factor Bull.
PEDIGREE
Dulverton Valhalla V088 has a unique three quarter Dulverton pedigree, he is by the homebred yearling sire in Dulverton Takeover Target T179 from Tim’s favourite cow Dulverton Pixie S112. Takeover Target T179 is by the Landfall New Ground son Rennylea R21 out of Dulverton Peri L3 who is by the maternal stalwart Pathfinder Galaxy G476 from Dulverton Peri B62. Peri L3 reared 7 and Peri B62 by Right Time 338 reared 8. The Peri cow family traces back to a foundation Dulverton cow in Landfall Archer C170 by Summitcrest Powerplay M032 and includes sires such as the Longevity promoters Dulverton Re-Build R112 and Dulverton Leviathan L59 a product of the GDAR Blackcap Lady 3187 embryo package imported in the early 1990’s.
Dulvertib Valhalla V088’s dam Dulverton Pixie S112 is pure Dulverton blood, being by the body capacity, natural thickness and active mobility promoter in Dulverton Pins P101 himself a double cross product of Black Pearl. S112 is proving herself as a promoter of weaning weight, V088 weaned at 424kg and her heifer W091 weighed 306kg @ 1.40kg/day under extreme seasonal conditions. The Pixie Family traces back to Dulverton Pixie Q12 an imported embryo from the man who founded CAB in the USA Mr Tom Johnson of Summitcrest Angus fame. This mating was designed by Tom and Henry Bergfeld the then cow herd manager at Summitcrest to promote Marbling (not IMF%) and Saleable Yield.
Dulverton Pixie S112 is out of Dulverton Pixie P158 a wonderful cow by D. Larry L154 who has reared six and is still active. Larry L154 who was purchased by James and Ted Laurie, has proven to be a true structural soundness champion, in particular promoting near perfect feet including depth of heel. L154’s progeny are still excelling for the major commercial beef enterprise profitability determining trait in STAYABILITY and for the eating quality trait Tenderness.
Dulverton Pixie P158 is certainly earning her keep, not only has she produced S112 (dam of V088), she has produced another structural soundness exponent for the sale in Lot 10 D. Vow & Declare V260.
Team Dulverton would like to acknowledge the foresight of Mrs. Robyn Kerr in purchasing Dulverton Valhalla V088’s sire Dulverton Takeover Target who has six sons in this years sale.
IGENITY BEEF PROFILE
The trait commercial beef producers and therefore the seedstock producers supplying bulls to those commercial producers, need to focus on is STAYABILITY. Stay is the likelihood a female will remain productive until she is six years old having reared four calves.
Dulverton Valhalla V088 excels for Stay he registers an eight (8) for the Trait, eight (8) for an Angus in the combined IGS/Igenity database of seven (7) different British Breeds is exceptional, Angus do perform quite poorly for this majorly important Value Determining Trait. The other two eights (8) represented in this Sale draft include Lot 44 Dulverton Vow & Declare and Lot 26 Dulverton Vain V346, we have retained Dulverton Viewed V228 for use in the Stud, he registers a VDI of 71.5, including an eight (8) for STAY.
Dulverton Valhalla V088 registers a Value Determining Index (VDI) of 69, see Chaps Chatter on Dulverton website for detail. Had he of scored 70, he would have been retained for Stud duty.
What of V088’s performance for the traits not evaluated in The VDI?
Calving Ease Direct: Not promoting him as heifer safe but he will pose no issue amongst females who have had one calf.
Heifer Pregnancy: Only a few marginally better he is a stand out.
Milk: Not additive, not detracting, just right
Docility: Definite temperament improver
Growth Traits: Will be growth (Weight) additive and combined with the REA and CW Scores will be Yield additive
Scrotal: Ideal score will be a positive contributor to genetic fertility.
Fat: Very adequate definitely doesn’t need greater genetic propensity to fatten.
It’s not often we get to present a potential young sire who combines-:
* A Phenotypic WOW factor including such a structurally sound profile.
* An abundant Performance Pedigree and that includes The Summitcrest Pixie 2B04 and Blackcap Lady 3187 embryos
* A pre potent genetic profile supported by a highly commendable VDI.
Step up to the plate be sure and give Dulverton Valhalla V088 a second Look.
