The Swedish Red cow is a red medium sized cow, about 140 cm tall and about 550 kg mature weight. Swedish Red is successfully used as a breed improver not only in other red populations world wide, but also for cross breeding with Holstein to improve fertility, calving ease and udder health.

High Production – High Income

The Swedish Red cows can compete with Holsteins when it comes to production. The fact that the Swedish red bulls ranks highly according to Interbull. Their foreign daughters in countries world wide also shows the excellence of the breed. The higher components make the breed a excellent choice for producing milk for cheese production, which is the case in Italy were Swedish Red cows produce milk to produce Parmesan. Breed Statistics

Easy Calvings

Swedish Red is probably the best breed in the world when it comes to calving ease. The Outstanding easy calvings in combination with the low incidence of still born calves – is a good ground for a good economy of the herd. This does not only give the heifer a good start of her lactation but also more calves for replacement and sale. For pure bred heifers the average for calving problems is only about 4% and some SRB sires give as low frequency of calving problems as 1%. SRB is therefore a excellent choice for insemination of heifers.

Female fertility

Cows that get pregnant and calve every year are important for the economy of the dairy herd. Geneticists confirm that selection sole for production will lead to loss in the ability to concive. Female fertility has been included in the Total Merit Index since 1972, facilitate a combination of a tremendous positive trend for production with maintained fertility.

Udder health

Mastitis and high cell counts are causing big economic losses in high-production dairies. The Swedish Red has substantially lower cell counts compared to Holsteins and very low incidence of mastitis. In the breeding program, information on cell counts and clinical mastitis (compulsory reported by vets) are included.

Longevity

Traits like udder health, fertility, calving abilityand udder conformation all have a proven effect on longevity. Healthy cows live longer, it is as simple as that. The Swedish Red cow are healthy, have easy calvings and are able to resist stress caused by high production – giving you room to sell animals or growth of the herd.