Pure Gir sire — face, horns, and hump in frame

Darvi Genetics · pure Gir records

Meet the Gir

The Gir is an Indian zebu dairy breed — Bos indicus — shaped in the Gir hills and forests of Saurashtra, Gujarat, long before any station card existed.

Built for heat, monsoon, sparse forage
Signature type: dome forehead · leaf ears · thoracic hump
Skin and coat tuned to shed tropical heat

This site holds pure Gir sire records the way a working farm desk would — dam milk on public cards, parentage where published, and the science of selection — not invented daughter proofs. Darvi Genetics works from Karnataka with animals you can re-read against live directories.

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Land that wrote the breed

Written by forest, thorn, and monsoon

The heartland runs through Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Gir-Somnath, and Rajkot — tropical country where summer can approach 40°C and rainfall arrives in a short season.

Gir cattle took shape under that pressure: not as a laboratory invention, but as animals that walked, grazed, and bred where temperate dairy types falter.

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Pastoral herds moved when local forage finished
Natural service was the rule for generations — AI and semen stations came later
Regional names (Bhodali, Desan, Kathiawari…) mark tongue and place, not separate breeds

Pedigree without health records is incomplete. Milk without parentage is anonymous.

Farm principle on every dossier: identity first, then the dam’s milk book, then breeding decisions that can be explained after the fact.

How to know a Gir

Form that sheds heat

Red coat predominant (~80%); red with white spots common. Convex forehead, pendulous leaf-like ears with terminal notch, lyre/half-moon horns, thoracic hump, loose skin and dewlap for heat dissipation. These are not ornaments — they are the heat-dissipation kit of a tropical dairy zebu.

Coat: red & white — entire red common; mottled frequent
Horns: lyre / half-moon — back, down, then up and forward
Skin often dark; dairy udder classically well developed & rounded

NBAGR-linked programme figures (guides, not certificates):

♂ 159.84 cm · 544 kg♀ 130.79 cm · 310 kgbirth ~20.77 kg

Gir cattle type — face, horns, ear, and hump

Read the head first: convex forehead, long folded ear, and the quiet set of the eye under the bony shield. That silhouette is how field workers and station men still recognise Gir among other zebu.

Type measures · NBAGR 2015 via NDDB Gir development booklet. Always compare live animals to current farm and station records.

Why dam kilograms speak first

A sire does not lactate — his mother’s book does the talking

Until daughters milk and proofs mature, a young pure Gir AI bull is introduced through his dam’s best lactation, fat test, and milk depth on the sire’s side.

Station cards print numbers as the working language of selection
They do not guarantee every daughter will repeat them

Only about 1.63% of recorded cows in the Pedigree Selection sample clear 4,000 kg in 305 days — so a dam at that band is rare, not “average Gir milk.”

That is why these five sires show dam kg and fat from public cards. Cards age; inventory moves — re-read the live directory before commercial use.

Beta-casein · CSN2

A2 without slogans

Indigenous cattle show high A2 beta-casein allele frequency. In a multi-breed Indian study, Gir A2A2 genotype frequency was 0.93; mean A2 allele frequency across indigenous breeds ~0.91. Exotic breeds showed much higher A1 frequency. That is a population tendency from a published sample — not a bottle label, not a farm certificate.

A2A2 — milk without A1 beta-casein
A1A2 — both alleles; offspring may be any genotype
A1A1 — no A2 beta-casein produced

A pure A2 stream needs lab genotyping and supply discipline — not coat colour or breed name alone. Indigenous mean A2 allele frequency in the literature cluster sits near 0.91.

Literature · https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37071545/ · individual farm claims require laboratory PCR or equivalent.

Five pure Gir sires

Station cards held to the light

Each bull below is a pure Gir sire from public station listing, ordered by genetics score on this site.

Real station photograph — curved plate, not a grid tile
Text from the card: dam milk & identity
Open the full dossier for pedigree & sources

Sire 01 · Gondaliyo line

GR-50149

Five-star Gir sire by Gondaliyo. Dam best lactation 4423 kg at 4.5% fat; sire's dam 5950 kg. Breeding value 274.

On the public card his dam’s best lactation is printed at 4423 kg with fat near 4.5%. That figure is the selection proxy for a young AI sire before daughters complete their own milk records. Sire on card: Gondaliyo. Breeding value listed: 274. Catalogue star: 5*.

Identity on the listing includes RHR-GR-50149, age about 10 years on the compiled record. Re-check the live station directory before any commercial decision — cards and inventory both move.

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Sire 02 · G-22 line

GR-50148

Five-star Gir sire by G-22. Dam best lactation 4291 kg at 4.36% fat. Breeding value 253.41.

On the public card his dam’s best lactation is printed at 4291 kg with fat near 4.36%. That figure is the selection proxy for a young AI sire before daughters complete their own milk records. Sire on card: G-22. Breeding value listed: 253.41. Catalogue star: 5*.

Identity on the listing includes RHR-GR-50148, age about 10 years on the compiled record. Re-check the live station directory before any commercial decision — cards and inventory both move.

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Sire 03 · Manek line

GR-50215

Gir sire by Manek. Dam best lactation 3836 kg at 5.3% fat — highest dam fat in this set. Sire’s dam 4132 kg.

On the public card his dam’s best lactation is printed at 3836 kg with fat near 5.3%. That figure is the selection proxy for a young AI sire before daughters complete their own milk records. Sire on card: Manek. Catalogue star: 1*.

Identity on the listing includes RHR-GR-50215, age about 10 years on the compiled record. Re-check the live station directory before any commercial decision — cards and inventory both move.

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Sire 04 · Laloo line

GR-50213

Gir sire by Laloo. Dam best lactation 3864 kg at 4.6% fat. Sire’s dam 3615.5 kg. Star 1*.

On the public card his dam’s best lactation is printed at 3864 kg with fat near 4.6%. That figure is the selection proxy for a young AI sire before daughters complete their own milk records. Sire on card: Laloo. Catalogue star: 1*.

Identity on the listing includes RHR-GR-50213, age about 10 years on the compiled record. Re-check the live station directory before any commercial decision — cards and inventory both move.

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Sire 05 · Gopal line

GR-50228

Gir sire by Gopal. Dam best lactation 3104 kg at 4.32% fat. Sire’s dam 3800 kg. Star 1*.

On the public card his dam’s best lactation is printed at 3104 kg with fat near 4.32%. That figure is the selection proxy for a young AI sire before daughters complete their own milk records. Sire on card: Gopal. Catalogue star: 1*.

Identity on the listing includes RHR-GR-50228, age about 9 years on the compiled record. Re-check the live station directory before any commercial decision — cards and inventory both move.

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What Darvi holds to

Records that can be re-read

Darvi Genetics presents pure Gir sires with the humility of a working desk.

Dam milk & fat from public station cards
A2 as literature & lab work — never an untested bottle claim
Embryo & semen as programmes with quarantine, identity, cold chain

We do not invent daughter proofs where none are published. Verify live inventory before purchase or mating decisions.

Opening the next plate…

Meet the Gir

The Gir is an Indian zebu dairy breed — Bos indicus — shaped in the Gir hills and forests of Saurashtra, Gujarat, long before any station card existed.

Built for heat, monsoon, sparse forage
Signature type: dome forehead · leaf ears · thoracic hump
Skin and coat tuned to shed tropical heat

Written by forest, thorn, and monsoon

The heartland runs through Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Gir-Somnath, and Rajkot — tropical country where summer can approach 40°C and rainfall arrives in a short season.

Gir cattle took shape under that pressure: not as a laboratory invention, but as animals that walked, grazed, and bred where temperate dairy types falter.

RabarisBharwadsMaldharisAhirsCharans

Pastoral herds moved when local forage finished
Natural service was the rule for generations — AI and semen stations came later
Regional names (Bhodali, Desan, Kathiawari…) mark tongue and place, not separate breeds

Pedigree without health records is incomplete. Milk without parentage is anonymous.

Farm principle on every dossier: identity first, then the dam’s milk book, then breeding decisions that can be explained after the fact.

Form that sheds heat

Coat: red & white — entire red common; mottled frequent
Horns: lyre / half-moon — back, down, then up and forward
Skin often dark; dairy udder classically well developed & rounded

NBAGR-linked programme figures (guides, not certificates):

♂ 159.84 cm · 544 kg♀ 130.79 cm · 310 kgbirth ~20.77 kg

A sire does not lactate — his mother’s book does the talking

Until daughters milk and proofs mature, a young pure Gir AI bull is introduced through his dam’s best lactation, fat test, and milk depth on the sire’s side.

Station cards print numbers as the working language of selection
They do not guarantee every daughter will repeat them

Only about 1.63% of recorded cows in the Pedigree Selection sample clear 4,000 kg in 305 days — so a dam at that band is rare, not “average Gir milk.”

That is why these five sires show dam kg and fat from public cards. Cards age; inventory moves — re-read the live directory before commercial use.

A2 without slogans

A2A2 — milk without A1 beta-casein
A1A2 — both alleles; offspring may be any genotype
A1A1 — no A2 beta-casein produced

A pure A2 stream needs lab genotyping and supply discipline — not coat colour or breed name alone. Indigenous mean A2 allele frequency in the literature cluster sits near 0.91.

Literature · https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37071545/ · individual farm claims require laboratory PCR or equivalent.

Records that can be re-read

Darvi Genetics presents pure Gir sires with the humility of a working desk.

Dam milk & fat from public station cards
A2 as literature & lab work — never an untested bottle claim
Embryo & semen as programmes with quarantine, identity, cold chain

We do not invent daughter proofs where none are published. Verify live inventory before purchase or mating decisions.