ABS

August 2023

Herd reports

The Multi-Faceted and Fertile Splendors: Extremely Current Generation after Generation

From ABS Sassafras to Willsbro Nugget-RC. The sire harvest from the Glen Drummond Splendor family is tremendous and influential. To be sure! Splendor descendant Farnear Tango Sabre is the maternal...

August 2023

Sires Report

On Route to Nearly Complete Perfection: Pine-Tree-I Pursuit

In December 2021, he dazzled as America’s new nr.1 TPI sire. In HI’s March 2023 edition, he was one of the most faultless Holstein transmitters available. His name: Pine-Tree-I Pursuit....

July 2023

Misc Breeds

A French sire is the darling of AI studs The big analysis of breeding for AI

No sire has put more sons into AI service internationally in recent years than O’Malley: every twentieth AI sire from the birth year 2019 onwards, worldwide, is a son of...

April 2023

Sires Report

BullTalk - April 2023

The accompanying table shows the top selling sires at ABS Global in China. Gary Gao from ABS China explains: ‘From all three, more than 30,000 doses (sexed and conventional) have...

February 2023

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires Red & Polled - February 2023

It is not the first time that the Shaggy branch, which has been developed in the Kra-Ho barn in the Czech Republic and goes back to Gen-I-Beq Goldwyn Secret, delivers...

February 2023

Cow Families

De-Su Delta 4900 Increasingly Influential at DeNovo Genetics and ABS

De-Su Frazz Tahiti (2986 TPI) in the top-5, Denovo 2705 Venture (2941 TPI) Nr. 9 and Denovo 14744 Ginetta (2898 TPI) in 17th place. With three sons in America’s progeny...

November 2022

Sires Report

Focus on... - November 2022

While the genomic top-lists almost everywhere in the world are increasingly populated with high polled sires, high daughter-proven polled bulls continue to be a rare commodity. This is particularly true...

November 2022

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DP - November 2022

‘In Switzerland, we are thrilled to have such a high production and fitness bull with correct conformation.’ Jürg Stoll from Swissgenetics is referring to Ewing who (after Ranger-Red) is the...

July 2022

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DP - July 2022

At first he attracted attention with his successful sons – including the much publicized Mendel-P (see BullTalk HI 06/2022) – and now with milking daughters in his proof Entity is...

June 2022

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires Polled - June 2022

‘Hailstone is very popular and is thus following in the footsteps of bestselling homozygote polled sires like Dynamite-PP and Debut-PP,’ says Hannah Noble from Cogent about the son of Hulk-P...

March 2022

Management

Unique HI Overview: These are the 92 Most Sold Holstein Sires at AI Companies Worldwide

Who were the most sold Holstein sires in 2021? The answer follows here, in a unique overview with 92 bestsellers from 38 breeding organizations in thirteen different countries. As well...

February 2022

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DNA 2022 - February 2022

As one of the few families with worldwide fame, the Barbie family is one of a select group that continually generate attention on Germany’s breeding scene, although it is seldom...