The 102 litter not only immediately caught your eye in the slotted floor finishing barn at the ISU Breeding Farm; the 4 littermate boars were also 1st, 2nd and 3rd and 4th on TSI in their contemorary group of 34 boars
Their sire, SGI 1359 Draft Horse, is rapidly proving to be an excellent sire of high performing and well structured Durocs
Even though Draft Horse came from a herd that doesn't participate in STAGES; his TSI based on the first group of 19 boars and 51 gilts off test is a commenable 123.1
On the dam side you have SGI 1344 Solid Gold, the very popular and consistent generator of high performing, stout made Durocs
The powerful SGI sire, 1304 Bold Adventure, is their paternal great grandsire
When comparing SGI 1376 Percheron 102-3, and SGI 1377 Belgian 102-4, Percheron is the leanner-more muscular appearing boar while Belgium 102-4 is a bit stouter made-heavier structured and of bigger ribbed of the two
Both Percheron and Belgian are long bodied, well balanced, correctly designed boars that are sound, free wheeling right off a totally slotted floor growing unit with over 20 boars per pen
We elected to take both littermates to SGI because of the uniform excellence of the 102 litter, their outstanding TSIs of 136.5 for Percheron and 124.1 for Belgian, and superior phentypic design that is both eye appealing and muscular as well as tough and durable
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