Bred by: Bill & Angie Tempel - Gentryville, IN
Owned With: SGI
Born: 05/12/10
Teats: 14
Ambassador has a unbelivable performance pedgree. Rarely do you ever find a boar that is in top 1% of the breed in SPI (135.8) and MLI (145.5) and also excells in production traits of Days to 250 (-3.3 EPD), feed efficencies (-5.0 EDP) and TSI (122.4)
He is from a litter of 20 born alive, 14 after transfer, 12 weaned and an outsanding 184 lb 21-day litter weight
Ambassador's sire, Uron 82-18, has EPDs of 0.59 NBA (top 4%), LWT 5.23 (top 10%), SPI 121.3 (top 5%) and MLI 115.7
The dam of Ambassador is the No. 1 ranking sow on MLI in the breed at 150.1. She has averaged 16.0 NBA, 11.0 weaned, 157 lb LWT for 4 parities and a phenomonal pigs born alive per year of 38.2. She has EPDs of 0.67 NBA (top 2%), 3.3 LWT, days -5.45 (top 2%), 122.6 SPI (top 5%), 150.1 MLI (top 1%) and TSI 142.4 (top 1%)
The sire of Ambassador's dam is the recent Swedish import SGI 2456 Ziel. He has EPDs of 0.88 NBA (top 1%), 3.4 LWT , -4.71 Days (top 5%), 130.8 SPI, 140.5 MLI (top 1%) and 122.1 TSI. Ziel is the top ranking boar in the Yorkshire breed on MLI and 5th on SPI.
The maternal and paternal grandams have averaged 11.8 and 14.7 NBA, 10.0 and 10.7 weaned, 156 and 143 lb 21-day litter weight in 4 and 10 parities respectively with MLI Indexes of 115.4 and 114.1
In addition to the tremendous maternal traits represented in his pedigree, Ambassador excells in growth at 136 days to 250 lb with an excellent EPD of -6.1 for days and -7.5 feed per gain
Ambassador is a long bodied-level made boar that is wide based, bold about his shoulder, big ribbed and deep sided
A heavy boned, big footed boar he is also very sound with particular good rump and rear leg structure
Ambassador has a excellent underline with very good spacing and teat quality
Tempels have also retained an outstanding littermate boar and four littermate gilts to Ambassador
Certainly when you consider the outstanding maternal pedigree, his remarkable growth rate and Stages Indexes as well as the rugged, very correct and sound phenotype; Ambassador is definetely one of the better maternal Yorkshire boars ever to come to SGI
In December 2012 he ranked 1st MLI (145.5), 4th (SPI 135.8) and 2nd NBA (0.96) in the Yorkshire breed
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