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August 18, 2014 Over 37.500 Females have been tested so far in Europe until August 2014. Now online on Eurogenes, the Top 50 GTPI females.    Read More

August 15, 2014 A. Ekkel from Germany purchased DG Bambi as a young calf through the Eurogenes Online Heifer Sale, she is a dtr of the exclusive bull Gabor out of Farnear-TBR Bailey VG-87-USA 2yr., dam to the famous bull Mars Yorick! Bambi calved now, scored VG-85-DE 2yr. and is performing great in the herd of Ekkel. She has several pregnancies on the way by Halogen and Krunch, her first dtr gives great confidence with a high GTPI of +2463 with RZG 156!   Read More

August 15, 2014 Today is the final day of the Eurogenes Online Embryo Sale. Almost 40 embryo combinations are selling including exclusive embryos sired by Powerball-P with skyhigh Homozygous Polled potentials, embryos from the greatest cow families and show heifers and many more! Click further for the Auction website.   Read More

August 14, 2014 Last Saturday was the annual Regional show in Oldebroek, the Netherlands. Several Eurogenes members had a very successful day. More than 100 animals took part on the show which now has been held for the 65th times. ARGH Holsteins set the ball rolling with capturing the Res. Champion 2-Yr. Old title with Noorder Gerjanne (s. Danillo). The well-known Vekis Beatrix 8, also sired by Danillo and owned by De Vree Holsteins won the Reserve title Mature cows. Veneriete Holsteins had great success at the heifer show, winning the Reserve title with Veneriete Ocosmo Ida while the Belgium bred Roccafarm Glauco Zally, which is now owned by Nature’s Holsteins captured the Jr. Champion title! Click further for complete results.   Read More

August 14, 2014 The GLPI Top 50 of new tested heifers for the August 2014 run is online. NOTE: These are only the NEWLY tested females for this run. The complete Top 50 GLPI of all European females will be online on Eurogenes soon.    Read More

August 13, 2014 Some interesting polled top donors from SCL Dijs from France are scored last week, the average of all classications was VG-85,1! One of the highlights is DIJS Jcolt PO which scored VG-87-FR 2yr.! She is a Polled Colt P going back on the Delaberge Durham Lucille cow family from Canada and is the dam of Lot 1 in the Vente Drakkar next week. A Polled Supersire dtr which is one of the highest flush age polled heifers in the breed, not sired by a Polled bull. More information www.drakkarholsteins.com   Read More

August 13, 2014 For the first time the gNVI indexes calculated in the Netherlands for bulls from Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, France, UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Australia. This resulted in a 1st place in the gNVI ranking for the famous Cogent SUPERSHOT!! The former #1 GTPI bull.  Click further for all toprankings.    Read More

August 13, 2014 The German RZG bull rankings are online! 2 bulls in the German B&W Genomic RZG Top 10 are bred by Zuchtbetrieb Reinermann from Germany, including the new #1 RZG bull Famous, from the Barbie cow family! Click further for the complete toprankings from Germany   Read More

August 13, 2014 Now online on Eurogenes, the Italian rankings for bulls based on PFT. In the Genomic Top 10 PFT bulls there are many bulls with Dutch roots, click further for the complete lists. 
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August 12, 2014 Seagull-Bay SILVER (Mogul x Snowman) is the new #1 GTPI bull after the August 2014 proof run with GTPI +2622 / PTAT +3.28! 2 bulls from Europe are in the Top 10, Cogent SUPERSHOT on place 3 with GTPI +2614 which is bred by Diamond Genetics and De Volmer Holsteins and SPRING on place 9 with GTPI +2591, he is from the WEH Janne cow family, from the Hintze's in Germany! Click further for the complete Top 100 GTPI bulls.    Read More