Bred by: Randy & Becky Schmidt - Iowa
Owned With: North Star Genetics-MN/Randy & Beck Schmidt-IA
Born: 01/20/13
Teats: 14
Thunder offers everything you look for in a Chester sire
Up headed, clean fronted, stylish, balanced, wide and thickly muscled
This boar will add extreme bone while still correcting pasterns, hock and rear leg placement
He is smooth jointed, heavy structured, tracks wide but still stays within his skeleton
Producers love his feet and legs, and are also impressed with his foot size
Very extended through his body forefront and is flawless in his overall phenotypic design
He was the 2013 Iowa State Fair Champion Chester Boar
From a litter of twelve born with EPD's of +.03 born alive, +.92 for 21-day litter weight, -.23 Days to 250 lbs, 0.0 for backfat
His dam is a seventh parity female with a 156 day farrowing day interval average. In seven litters she has weaned seventy seven pigs with an average of 142 lb 21-day litter weight
Sired by SGI 565 Live Wire, who was the 2011 NBS Hog College Boar and $10,000 Top Selling Boar overall breeds
Thunder's dam is sired by Professor who was the 2009 NBS Hog College Boar and also sire of SGI 564 Parnell
Professor sired females noted to be superb producers with extreme longevity
His great grandam was SGI 550 Holbrook's littermate sister and his great, great grandam was Anna 141-13 who Schmidt's consider to be their very top producer matron to date
Other famous boars linked in his pedigree include Jolly Jogger who sired the top meat quality pen overall breeds at the National Barrow Show a few years back and Favre who was chosen as a NBS Super Sire and meat quality trait leader as well
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