Bred by: Cedar Ridge Farms - Red Bud, IL
Owned With: SGI
Born: 5-17-11
Teats: 16
Step Ahead is a thick made big bodied boar yet is long fronted and has very good length of side
Wide chested, big ribbed and deep bodied from front through the rear flank region, Step Ahead has the capacity needed in highly productively females.
Step Ahead is wide at the top of the blades, has a big top and big, level square rump
He has very good bone, a big blade, big feet with even toes and has proper angles and clean joints on both front and rear appendages
A well balance, sound moving boar; Step Ahead has ideal phenotype for maternal production
An added bonus is Step Ahead’s high quality well spaced 8-8 underline with four teats in front of the sheath
Step Ahead’s dam has averaged 17.3 born alive, 12.0 weaned and 155.4 lb 21-day litter weight. Her NBA of 0.68 is in Top 3% and SPI is top 15% of breed. The paternal grandam has averaged 12.3 NBA, 11.0 weaned, 167.4 lb LWT
The sire of Step Ahead’s dam, Big Unit 132-2, was previously ranked 1st NBA (1.14), 1st SPI (134.5) and 3rd MLI 136.0 in the Yorkshire Across herd Sire summary
The paternal Grandsire, Millennium 227-3, is one of the top sires in the breed ranking 9th for EPDs Days (-5.8) and Feed/Gain (-10.0) while his MLI of 128.8 is in top 6%
Step Ahead is a powerful yet very functional and complete maternal Yorkshire boar that has a very well balanced EPDs as represented by his 123.2 Maternal Line Index
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