Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Imports selected ~ 1970

The 1970 Simmental imports (in quarantine till Spring 1971) were six in total:

Bulls:
Date of Calving
Donald MM3254 (SBL 70A; ASA 10144; CSA )
4 Dec 1969
Romeo MM5967 (SBL 71A; ASA 10146; CSA )
13 Dec 1969

Heifers:
Date of Calving
Elsbeth  (CSA  217)
n/a
Meta  (CSA  218)
n/a
Blosch  (CSA  219)
n/a
Margreth  (CSA  241)
n/a

However, in the SBL 1971/72 brochure, there is another bull import listed for 1970, being Rex (Dar 1A) CSA # 165, ASA #10142, born December 8, 1969 and weighing 1565 lbs. on Sept. 2, 1971. His captian reads: "Considered by many to be the most impressive bull imported in 1971-72. Rex was one of the two bulls selected by SBL from the group of 70 selected by the Swiss Federation. [Donald was the other.] The captian for Romeo reads "SBL's selecion from our performance tested group of 15 head in Switzerland."
 
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