Kian (11 June 1997 – 2013)
, ''top agrar'', June 28, 2013 (accessed December 19, 2014) was a red-and-white (
Holstein
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) breeding bull. He was the first red Holstein bull from the Netherlands whose semen was sold worldwide; more than a million units of his
frozen semen
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were sold. He was owned by the Dutch-Belgian company CRV (
nl).
Nieuws: Kian overschrijdt grens van één miljoen
on CRV website
Kian's sire
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(father) was the bull ''Andries'' and his dam
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(mother) was a daughter of the bull ''Skalsumer Sunny Boy.'' Kian had a purely Dutch descent with a 25% share of Meuse-Rhine-Issel
The Meuse-Rhine-Issel or Meuse-Rhine-Yssel ( nl, Maas-Rijn-IJssel, italic=no) is a Dutch breed of dual-purpose cattle, reared both for meat and for milk. It falls within the Lowland-Pied group of North European cattle; it is red-pied, and o ...
-blood. This was an unusual descent at a time when nearly all bulls had well over 95% Holstein-Friesian blood. Soon after his first evaluation of breeding value in 2002, he was among the world's ten best bulls in most breeding value lists. By 2008, he had produced one million units of semen. By the time of his death, 1.4 million had been sold, including some exported to Europe, South Africa, North America and New Zealand.protein
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content, and good physical and skeletal form. Kian's calves include Delta Fidelity, Apina Curitis, and Peul Kylian.
External links
Detailed numbers for Kian's breeding value and pedigree
on the Holland Genetics website
References
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Cattle breeding
Individual bulls