SeekSire Add On Test

Why Ranchers Choose Neogen®

  • Deeper analytics on your cattle
  • Make informed decisions about your herd
  • Improve your bottom line
  • Unlock the genetic potential of your herd

SeekSire™ Parentage

Current Price: $17.00 Original Price:
  • SKU: 243
  • Best For: All Commercial Cattle
  • Type: Add-on Test or Standalone Test
  • Pairs with: Igenity Feeder or Igenity Beef (Included)

SeekSire™ parentage testing compares DNA markers from bulls (or cows) with DNA from calves to verify the calves’ parentage. In commercial settings, this service is often used when multiple bulls are mixed with female cattle.

Verify pedigrees and identify sires with SeekSire cattle parentage. Whether you need to prove value, or identify certain sires based on traits within your herd SeekSire Parentage can help you do just that.

  • Identify sires causing calving problems or abnormalities.
  • Find sires that are more/less dominant or with the most or least calves.
  • See which bulls are siring the best heifers.
  • You can order this item individually or as part of a genomic profile.

This test is included with the Igentiy Beef Profile or as a stand-alone test.

Why Ranchers Choose Neogen®

  • Deeper analytics on your cattle
  • Make informed decisions about your herd
  • Improve your bottom line
  • Unlock the genetic potential of your herd

Additional Tests & Supplies

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How It Works

  1. Buy Tests

    Choose your preferred test

  2. Collect Sample

    Use a Tissue Sampling Unit to collect your sample for testing

  3. Mail in Sample

    Complete the easy-to-use order form, then mail your samples to the lab

  4. Get Results

    Results will be added to your Dashboard in about 4 weeks

Why test your cattle?

Genomic technology allows for beef products to unlock the genetics potential, ensuring quality and efficiency of each animal. Igenity provides an advance genomic profile portfolio for commercial beef, helping you make confident selection, breeding, and management decisions for your herd.

Igenity Beef & Igenity Feeder can explain the genetic potential for selecting replacement heifers and feedlot steers, allowing producers to rank cattle based on operational goals and make strategic decisions.

Determine quality genetics

Help with breeding decisions

Monitor herd health

Learn More About Testing

Report Details

Your herd has been genomically tested, now what do you do with the data? The platform provides you the ability to sort your own herds genomic data quickly and easily.

Maternal Traits

Birth weight, calving ease direct, calving ease maternal, stayability, heifer pregnancy, docility, and milk.

Performance Traits

Residual feed intake, average daily gain, weaning weight, yearling weight, and scrotal circumference.

Carcass Traits

Tenderness, marbling, ribeye area, fat thickness, hot carcass weight.

Screenshot of the CattleDNA dashboard, displaying herd info, DNA breakdown, and herd health.

Maternal Traits

Birth weight, calving ease direct, calving ease maternal, stayability, heifer pregnancy, docility, and milk.

Screenshot of the Test Insights Dashboard displaying a DNA breakdown pie chart.

Performance Traits

Residual feed intake, average daily gain, weaning weight, yearling weight, and scrotal circumference.

Screenshot of the Test Insights Dashboard displaying a DNA breakdown pie chart.

Carcass Traits

Tenderness, marbling, ribeye area, fat thickness, hot carcass weight.

Screenshot of the Test Insights Dashboard displaying a DNA breakdown pie chart.
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