sire

Object

• gimmer: The first lot was a Milnbank Episode sired gimmer, out of a Courthill Valais ewe.
• heifer: The second top price was £ 780 again for a heifer sired by Formation.
• ewe: Leading the sale at 750gns was a two shear ewe sired by Stockton Dominator and out of a Bridgestone Hercules ewe.
• calf: It also allows the farmer to choose from a variety of breeds to sire the calves.
• lamb: Three days later at the Royal Bath and West Winter Fair, two three-quarter ewe lambs sired by Aladin won the supreme champion pair.
• bull: Who also paid 1,400gns for Parton Handyman an April 2002 bull sired by Park William from Messrs Hewson, Parton Farm, Wigton.

Converse of object

• cross: Its main use is as a crossing sire, to produce good quality beef calves out of dairy cows.

Subject

• bull: We can also provide lists of all female groups sired by individual bulls within each herd.

Adjective modifier

• proven: Leicester is a a proven sire, throwing kittens with wild faces.
• terminal: Dorset Horn rams are terminal sires in flocks using natural ' frequent lambing ' to achieve year-round production of top quality fattened lambs.
• leading: In many European countries, the leading sire may account for up to 25 % of pedigree inseminations in some breeds.
• successful: A horse's breeding can attract interest from buyers, so it may be worth mentioning a famous or successful sire.

Modifies a noun

• stat: There could be sire stats which thwart the winner.
• rating: The sire rating of Windy Prospect is a bit worrying.

Noun used with modifier

• broodmare: If you were looking at young mares by as yet unproven broodmare sires, what would you go for?
• terminal: The Dorset Down is an ideal terminal sire, producing solid, meaty, early maturing lambs.
• herd: The next price to follow was 2,700gns for Cracrop Tradesman, a June 2003 Limousin son of the senior herd stock sire Redrock Orlando.

Preposition: of

• winner: Sires of many championship show winners and Crufts qualifiers.

Preposition: by

• Ch: Sired by Ch Kalyani Prince Siegfried, lovely big typy kittens and naughty to boot!
• bull: We can also provide lists of all female groups sired by individual bulls within each herd.