Kreme-P
Reverence Cheeseyield Kreme-P
JEUSA000174140535
Born: June 19, 2020
A2A2 - AB/BB - BBR 100
aAa 432561
Fly resistant — strength — balanced (works on nearly any mating) — udder traits — components
If you don't know what bull to choose, choose Kreme. He may not have two B's in kappa casein or two P's behind his name (so he has a 50% chance of having a polled calf), but there are some things more important than cheese yield. Even though, ironically, Cheeseyield was the name of his sire.
What could possibly be more important than cheese yield and a double-polled head? (And this guy is no slouch in the cheese yield department, either.)
Fly resistance, incredible forage efficiency, a balanced physique that works on any mating to improve everything while not creating obvious deficits. And that is just for starters.
You can have the most brilliant bull in the world but if he isn't a good structural match for your cow, you are going to end up with some things that don't come out in the wash exactly the way you would like.
If you don't feel confident picking the best bull for your cow, and you have a standard or mid-size cow, I cannot recommend this bull enough.
The only animals I would hesitate to use him on are cows that are already really strong in the front end and lack dairy femininity. Most commercial cattle and their descendants on small farms lack strength, however, so Kreme is very much a bull that is needed right now, especially for people who are looking to dairy on less inputs.
He is going to sire mid-size cows and caution should be used on putting him on a heifer with inadequate pelvic width, even though he will improve this trait in his daughters, the animal that he is bred to needs to successfully birth the offspring. His calves will be smaller than standard-sized Jerseys from catalogs, however.
Genes don't dilute, they sort. And this guy has a bunch of matched base pairs because of his multi-generational breeding for excellence that he will stamp these traits on his daughters.
What else do I like about Kreme? His mother has bred back every year on time in an all-forage system for a decade. That is quite a feat. She is four-quartered at 11 years old. She is feminine, elegant and yet strong and gentle. No one complains about her manners, ever.
A couple of years ago a very good friend of mine needed a couple of bulls to breed his cows because he was having some health challenges and he has a bull pen as impressive as ours and I gave him pick out of all of our bulls to breed his herd and he chose Kreme for his heifers and Cephas for his cows. They were exceptionally good choices. And he's quite happy with the results.
Kreme shines most where strength is needed without losing dairy. That's more challenging than it seems. It's easy to breed a stronger dairy cow but not so easy to breed a stronger dairy cow who still has a will to milk, femininity, elegance and knows how to let down her creme in the parlor and not just hold it up for her calf. We have not "proven" Kreme for this trait yet, but his maternal half-brother Kristofer has been proven for this unicorn let-down trait.
Kreme's daughters will have exceptional udders. His sire topped the Jersey Performance Index for udders for a couple of years in a row and is a sought-after bull in commercial dairy grazing circles because of his strength, longevity and udders. Kreme sires the kind of cows that don't wear out.
Kreme isn't glaringly lacking in any trait, including "style." Lots of times animals with ample room in the pelvis (which he has) lack a flat topline and good feet/leg structure. Not Kreme. He really does have it all.
His sire, Butter Valley Cheeseyield, came out of the prettiest Jersey herd I had the pleasure of ever walking among. A lot of times people associate so-called "grazing genetics" with New Zealand but Kreme has more Danish genes than anything else, and that is where he gets his strawberry blonde coat color. His mother is a creamy white beige with grey highlights.
Danish Jerseys are known for their high components. Cheeseyield was hand selected over many generations for butterfat, protein (which is often overlooked in the chase for butterfat and a huge component of cheeseyield and nutrient-density) and milk proteins. (Cheeseyield himself is BB/BB; we have granddaughters of him in our herd and they are lovely.) He came out of a program in Ohio that was known for only selecting bulls out of cows that had 10 trouble-free years (meaning no troubles, no illnesses, no mastitis, no hoof problems), under good management, of course.
Kreme's dam came out of a long-time grass-fed dairy program of a good friend of mine whose cows seeded our original herd expansion in 2017 and who has the same breeding philosophy that we have in many respects.
These pictures shown of Kreme were taken in heat of the summer when he was two years old and he had no flies even as other bulls in the herd did.
He is currently on a farm in Ohio where he was supposed to be for a few months but the dairyman likes him so much that he's kept him for two years. This farmer has exceptional cattle and usually AI's but he wants to keep Kreme to breed his whole herd.
An analyzer friend of mine went to visit him and remarked that he is incredibly stout but it's all muscle and not fat. This is exceptional to hear because it is this trait in a bull that makes an excellent dairy cow with nutrient-dense milk.
You would be remiss if you overlook this bull.
*There is a minimum order of five conventional straws per bull, and conventional straws are sold in multiples of five.
*For a $10 discount per straw, order ten or more straws of the same bull; discount will automatically be applied in your cart.
*There is no minimum for purchasing sexed straws. We recommend purchasing a minimum of three sexed straws per animal to settle. If breeding multiple animals, you can use a lower multiplier because the law of averages means at least one of your cows hopefully settles on the first service, freeing up other straws for multiple services.
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