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May 7, 2015 The toprankings of the European females for Red, Red Carrier and Polled are online!   NOTE: these are the un-official rankings, so animals could be missing in these lists, as there are no recordings for these genetic traits in the herdbook lists. We can only make this list as complete as possible with your help: if your animal, or another animal you know about is missing in these lists, please let us know by sending an email to info@eurogenes.nl with the missing animal name and in which list she should appear, the lists will also be published in the Summer edition of the Hotspots magazine! THANKS. Click further for the lists.    Read More

May 7, 2015 16 milkingheifers scored yesterday at the classification day at De Volmer Holsteins, they averaged a really high VG-85,1! Grand dtr of Barbie hereself, Roccafarm Iota Barbara raised her score to VG-88 in her 1st lactation, also the successful bull dam RZH Lynn raised her score, she is now VG-87!!    Read More

May 7, 2015 A huge succes for the breeder Colonia Cows, they bred the new #1 GTPI bull born in Europe, his name is COL SUPERSTAR! In the January Online Bull Sale a 1st Choice Supershot son was offered from Col Headliner Carmen, the choice was purchased by AI Total for EUR 32.000. These bulls were amongst the earliest Supershot's going to be born from Supershot, now the results on the first 2 bulls are back and what a great results, Col Superstar is the new #1 GTPI bull born in Europe with GTPI +2689 and 834 Net Merit!   Read More

May 7, 2015 KNS Holsteins from the Niermann family is World Wide renowned for their high quality genetics they delivered for many years, a huge number of successful sires were bred at KNS Holsteins before and after the times of Genomics. One of the current stars out of the KNS barn listens to the name Blossom. Blossom is a breeders dream for the Niermann family with KNS genes on the top and bottom, Blossom's sire is the former #1 RZG bull KNS Boss and the maternal side we see the strong transmitting KNS Goldengate cow family! Blossom is the reigning #1 gNVI sire in the breed and is in the Top 50 RZG in Germany with RZG 154 combined with a high RZE (type) of 138!   Read More

May 7, 2015 The AI Genoservis from the Czech Republic has breed leading bulls available in their line-up, what about the World's #3 GTPI Red Carrier bull World Wide, Snowbiz Symion *RC with GTPI +2438 / PTAT +1.99! He is a Sympatico son out of Gen-I-Beq Snowman Summer VG-85-CAN 2yr. from the Glen Drummond Splendor cow family! Symion's world class index in different systems in combination with his fresh pedigree for the R&W breed makes him a very popular sire of sons at the moment.    Read More

May 6, 2015 A great classification day for Bra-Ko Holsteins in Sweden lately wtih an average score of VG-89,4 on 15 cows, none of them scored lower then VG-86! Click further for some highlights, classification and see which animals are selling next week in the Bra-Ko TAG Sale!    Read More

May 6, 2015 "Dreams become reality" is the intriguing title of the 4 page article about Crystalclear Holsteins (from Mark and Anne Lee) which was published and the lastest Holstein UK Journal. Read everything about Crystalclear Holsteins in this article published here on Eurogenes.    Read More

May 6, 2015 Watermolen Shamrock Pala is one of the highest classified daughters of Shamrock world wide, she scored VG-88 as a 2yr. old with a VG-89 udder. She was 2nd in her class and won the Best Udder Championship at the Wintershow in Noordeloos. Pala goes back to Watermolen Goldwyn Princess VG-89-NL, the Goldwyn daughter of none other than Windy-Knoll-View Pledge EX-95-USA!   Read More

May 6, 2015 The American intermediate run of May 2015 took place yesterday, the #1 and #2 heifer in the European run are the full sisters All.Nure Supershot Papsy 1505 and Papsy 1499, both out of a Numero Uno daughter of the former #1 GTPI cow Muri Planet Popsy VG-87-IT 2yr. They are testing GTPI +2712 and GTPI +2705! The highest PTAT animal this run was Flora Atwood Adeena VG-87-ES 2yr., the full sister of Eclipse Atwood Archrival, the #1 PTAT bull in the breed and out of the great MS Kingstead Chief Adeen cow family! Click further for the topranking GTPI and PTAT lists of the May run.    Read More

May 5, 2015 Earlier this week we reported the VG score of Siepermann's Aida at only 2 weeks fresh, this Epic daughter of ARGH Holsteins goes back on KHW Regiment Aiko EX-91-USA, her dam is the maternal sister of the heavily used sire Aikman! Aida just have been pictured, click here for the result!   Read More