{"id":13647,"date":"2020-10-07T23:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/?p=13647"},"modified":"2021-01-07T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:49:06","slug":"vanguard-cows-of-the-abba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/vanguard-cows-of-the-abba","title":{"rendered":"Vanguard Cows of the ABBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Receiving the &#8220;Vanguard&#8221; designation in the ABBA is the most prestigious accomplishment a Brahman cow can achieve. Vanguard status is indicated by the symbol $ preceding a dam&#8217;s name in the ABBA registry.<\/p>\n<p>The Vanguard program was created in 2001 by the Research and Breed Improvement Committee commonly known as the &#8220;Performance Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the history of the ABBA, only 16 cows have been deemed worthy of the Vanguard title. A Vanguard cow must achieve both Register of Renown and Maternal Merit status.<\/p>\n<p>The Register of Renown program was designed to recognize the sires and dams of show ring winners at ABBA approved shows. To obtain the status of Register of Renown, a cow must gain a minimum of 75 points earned by two or more of her produce.<\/p>\n<p>Dams with the Maternal Merit rank are superior females identified through participation in the BHIR program as having an early onset of puberty, a regular calving interval and consistently producing offspring that perform above average.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of all the cows that have ascended Vanguard status and don the coveted $ symbol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"td-modal-image aligncenter wp-image-14253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females.jpg\" alt=\"Complete list of Vanguard Females\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females.jpg 695w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vanguard-Females-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receiving the &#8220;Vanguard&#8221; designation in the ABBA is the most prestigious accomplishment a Brahman cow can achieve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":14257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abba-news","8":"category-american-brahman-breeders","9":"category-brahman-news","10":"category-brahman-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14256,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647\/revisions\/14256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}