Cow Families
Cow Country - February 2019
The achievements of the thirteen-year-old Feizor Shottle Delia speak volumes. Just starting her 11th lactation and well on her way to 140,000 kg lifetime production, in December she received the...
MS Kingstead Chief Adeen: The All-Time Number Two for Most EX Daughters
Bulls such as Atwood, Atlantic, Aftershock, Golden Dreams and Archrival rank among the great type transmitters of the past decade, and all trace back through their maternal line to Adeen....
Redwing Family: Now Flying Higher with top Ranking Bulls
For many years the international icon for the Ri-Val-Re herd in Michigan has been the bull Ri-Val-Re Niagra. Now he is being superseded by the highly popular Ri-Val-Re Rager-Red. After...
Tri-Day Ashlyn: 72 Excellent Daughters and Counting!
A rare double dominated the show results from the year 2001: Grand Champion at both the World Dairy Expo and the Royal went to the 4-year-old Encore daughter Tri-Day Ashlyn....
The Unstoppable Quality of Jeffrey-Way’s T Family 109 milking cows: 59 excellent!
The purchase of a lifetime. Jeff Hendrickson made it in 1982, when he bought Inwood Taffy Apollo. ‘I had been a herdsman at Inwood for three years. When he held...
Polled Gallery (1) – An Overview of the Female Protagonists of the Polled Scene
Admittedly, we could write this article more critically, as the summit of polled breeding, which is by now much more than just a niche, is dominated by so few bull...
Cow Country - January 2019
During the mid-1980s, David Peterson from Majestic-Manor Dairy in Iowa had an internationally popular embryo donor in the form of Oak-Krest Bretta EX-90. It was the interest in this Arlinda...
Julias: Unwavering Source Behind Sale Toppers Julandy and Jotani
The primarily red & white herd of Jacob Werler in the Netherlands, with 11 AI sires launched, is not among the most dominant. Nevertheless, results are impressive. For the past...
Undenied: Popular Type Star out of Breeding Icon Our-Favorite Unlimited
Our-Favorite Undenied is on the sire list of many type enthusiasts world-wide. The American Solomon son scores no less than 4.16 gPTAT, and with that, is certainly not an exception...
Elevation Dawn: Non-Stop in Bomaz’s Future
Bomaz, the farm owned by the Zwald and Schalla families in Wisconsin, with Skywalker and AltaDelson-P, bred two young sires that are remarkable right now. Both descend from the family...
Apple - Exemplary Show Star and Unparalleled Gene Source
Apple. The name has a magical ring in breeding. Certainly within the Red Holstein world, but also beyond, all over they speak with deep respect about the American Regiment daughter,...
Gillette-I Durham Jericho: The Success Story that Could Have Never Happened
The opportunistic purchase of a 10-year-old dry cow resulted in an abundantly successful cow family at the world-famous Gillette herd in Canada. Read on to discover how this spontaneous acquisition...