Improve your red cattle with VikingRed


- The Most Profitable Red Cow In The World - 




With VikingRed, you can enhance the efficiency of your herd and boost your profitability. Choosing VikingRed sires makes your cows more resistant to diseases, improves their reproductive capability and milk productivity, all at the same time. Our red cows are well known for their extraordinary health, easy calvings, excellent fertility, functional conformation and high production. Choose VikingRed sires to optimise your herd for commercial dairy production.  

This unique combination of VikingRed qualities guarantees your success. Take a look at our VikingRed sire line up.

Our red sires will help you drive genetic progress for all the traits that are important for the profitability of your dairy business. You will achieve a high genetic level for health and reproduction traits, without compromising on production. VikingRed is a naturally healthy breed, which is why it has greater weighting in the Production index in NTM (The Nordic Total Merit index). 

VikingRed bulls rank high in international top lists, and they are prominent in pedigrees of many top bulls around the world. High proportion of the semen from VikingRed sires is used in the ProCROSS concept, the only scientifically proven cross breeding programme in the world. 

VikingRed Production

The breeding population of VikingRed is over 200,000 milk recorded red cows in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. 

Interbull evaluations 

The International Bull Evaluation Service shows excellent performance for Red bulls from Denmark, Sweden and Finland compared to bulls from the rest of the world. VikingGenetics bulls are the top performers in Udder Health, Yield, Longevity, Calving, both direct and maternal for daughter-proven bulls (born 2012 or later). The Nordic countries have managed to combine high yield with superior health and reproduction. 

The International Bull Evaluation Service (Interbull) is a permanent subcommittee of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR). Interbull is the worldwide network providing genetic information services for improvement of livestock.

Genetic trends for VikingRed bulls 2001-2018