Lichtblick-Red Calf TOPS West Port Red Release Sale

ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA – June 7, 2006 –

Picture L to R Back Row: John Burkett, Brent Walker
Picture L to R Front Row: Donald Dubois, Jacqueline Fillion/Buyer,
Carl Marquis/Seller, and Scott Wilson

The West Port Red Release Sale saw some big dollars change hands with the sale of a two-month-old Lichtblick-Red-ET calf on May 26, 2006. The Lichtblick calf, Lorka Platine Lichtblik, sold for a phenomenal $17,500 and was the top of the sale. The calf’s Dam is the well-known Dudoc JLT Pontage VG-86 who has been #24 on the Canadian Top 100 LPI list. The calf was consigned by Ferme Lorka, Ste-Croix, Que. and was purchased by Jacqueline Fillion and Ferme Filiale St-Ludger Inc., St-Ludger, Que. The sale was hosted by Scott and Beth Wilson at the Brubacher Sale Arena in Guelph, Ontario and was extremely well attended. Their West Port prefix is well known to breeders of Red and White Holsteins all over the planet.

Lichtblick-Red is one of the most complete bulls available in the Red and White Holstein breed. He sires strong, wide front ends and just a slight slope to the rump making him the perfect cross for Rubens daughters. With 244 daughters in 193 herds in his first crop, you have a 100% money back guarantee that Lichtblick will produce daughters that are deep bodied and can produce mammoth amounts of high protein milk. That is what makes Lichtblick a true Sire of Excellence.

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