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July 2024
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024

Snoopy ranks at Nr.1 ISU in France, and is also 209 gPPR in the US and 134 gGZW in Germany. He is a son of Jonmar, who is now proven and transmits lots of production from smaller cows with nice udders. ‘Snoopy’s dam Perd...

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July 2024
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA II - July 2024

Laugen-P is currently one of the most interesting polled sires in international Brown Swiss breeding. He presents himself as an all-rounder with a super balanced, no-holes proof: +820kg milk +.29%f +.22%p, 114 type with...

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July 2024
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA III - July 2024

AG Valps is a Vance son who was bred on the farm of Martin Schlecker in Osterberg and comes from a family strong for production and components. His Alpsee dam produced about 8,300kg/18,300lb 4.8%F 4.1%P in her first lact...

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July 2024
Doboy: Breakthrough as a proven sire & Optimal: no extremes

The daughter-proven Sinatra son Optimal is one of the most desirable Brown Swiss bulls bred in France. He breeds cows with many strengths and no extremes.

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July 2024
Bloomlord: The number one from 17 brothers

Bloomlord, from the AI stud in Greifenberg, is the Nr.1 worldwide on the German-Austrian basis among 17 Blooming sons. He combines high milk yield with good conformation and, compared to his sire, much improved fitness.

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July 2024
Brown Swiss Varia - July 2024

The Canadian Brown-Heaven Farm reports of a very successful classification round at the end of May. 22 Brown Swiss cows were scored, resulting in six EX scores. The highest score was given to Anfield-CE Thunder Emma EX-9...

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July 2024
Brown Swiss in mixed herds: How to feed, how to breed

In many regions, Brown Swiss share the barn with other breeds, most often with Holsteins from a global viewpoint. What impact does this have for farmers? Are they fed, managed and bred differently than in Brown Swiss her...

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July 2024
The favourites of the AI studs

Among the sires of sons over the last 3 years, bulls from the Blooming line come out on top with the highest number of sons: every ninth AI bull in the world has O’Malley, Pactole or Huge as their sire. The number of pro...

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June 2024
Claynook Farms: Modern Holstein Enterprise with 35% of Income from Breeding

With Claynook Zeebah Letchworth in the Nr.1 position for young females and Ranger son Claynook Zard-RC in second place on the sire list, Claynook Farms in Ontario is drawing a lot of attention, also after the recent Apri...

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June 2024
Volkmann Holsteins Vogtland: Source of Five Iron Strong Generations and Vox Say-Red-PP

Beginning in August, the first daughters of Vox Say-Red-PP, the second most sold Red Holstein bull in Germany, will be coming into production. Say, launched by Masterrind/Synetics, comes from a unique cow family. Females...

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June 2024
Intriguing Sires DNA - June 2024

Karl, a top-5 sire in the US, distinguishes himself with positive indexes for daughter fertility (+0.6 gDPR/+1.7 fertility index). ‘Dairymen want cows that produce a lot of high component milk and stay healthy and that i...

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June 2024
Intriguing Sires RED - June 2024

With 161 RZG, he leads the German top-list and is a new, very attractive sire of sons for Red Holstein breeding. He is currently among the highest red and white sires for RZG, RZGesund (131) and feet and legs (138). Skil...

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June 2024
55x in Delta-Lambda’s Pedigree The Enduring Impact of Chief Son S-W-D Valiant

The tremendous interest in Farnear Delta-Lambda requires no explanation – reason why HI started a trilogy about his pedigree. Part 1 (February) was about Melwood, who appears 11x in Lambda’s pedigree. In Part 2 (April) w...

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June 2024
Intriguing Sires DP - June 2024

Carenzo comes from the Danish breeding barn Anderstrup. Particularly in Germany, he was used very intensively and as a sire of sons. Carenzo was one of the youngest Crown sons on the market and convinced as a very balanc...

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June 2024
BullTalk - June 2024

Genosource Captain – Nr.1 in the US, Canada, and Great Britain – is one of the heavyweights right now. One of his high sons that is widely available (both conventional and sexed) is the interesting Gen Percival from AI T...

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