Bred by: Jack Rodibaugh & Sons
Owned With: Leased from
Born: 2-17-93
Teats: 14
Jens 82-6 is undoubtedly the best proven son of Jens 448 to date. He has outstanding EPDs in all categories and ranked 6th for Maternal Line Index in the latest Yorkshire Across-Herd Sire Summary. His sire Jens 448 ranks 2nd for BF EPDs, 2nd for 21-day litter weight, 7th for TSI and 4th for MLI. Jens 82-6 is from a litter of 11 weaned with 174 lb 21-day litter weight. His dam has a 107.95 SPI with the maternal granddam at 108.73.
Jens 82-6’s dam has averaged 10.17 weaned and 147.4 lb 21-day weight for six parities while two littermates to 82.6 have averaged 10.0 and 10.5 pigs weaned and 167.0 and 148.1 lb 21-day litter weights. Seventy-one sons of Jens 82-6 have averaged 156 days to 230, 0.55 BF and 6.20 LEA while 155 daughters have averaged 178 days, 0.54 BF, 6.47 LEA.
Jens 82-6 has been a tremendous sire not only of high performing and maternally superior offspring, but also in terms of superior phenotype. He has sired the 1994 Summer Type Conference $1,100 1st place gilt 1994 $3,800 Illinois Champion Boar, 1994 Indiana Top Selling Boar, 1994 $1750 National Barrow Show Top Selling Gilt, 1995 Work Pork Expo Champion Boar, 1995 Summer Type Conference Reserve Champion Gilt and two very popular boars at the 1995 National Barrow Show.
Jens 82-6’s offspring have the typical extreme leanness and outstanding muscle shape generated by his sire Jens 448. In addition, Jens 82-6’s offspring excel in length and levelness of design and are heavier structured than Jens 448’s offspring. They are very maternal appearing and have excellent underlines. His daughters have certainly proven themselves in the farrowing house as documented by EODs of 0.42 for born alive and 11.25 for 21-day litter weight.
We would like to thank Jack Rodibaugh and Sons for leasing this outstanding proven sire to SGI. We are confident that he will follow in his illustrious sire’s footsteps and make a very significant contribution to SGI customers herds.
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