Cow Families
Cow Country II - May 2023
The state of Victoria is the heartland of the Australian dairy industry. In the north of the state at Bamawm is Mitch Holsteins, the 300-cow herd owned by Brent &...
Cow Country - May 2023
Stanton Farms in Ontario has already provided several elite LPI cows. But the achievements of Stantons Bighit Melody-P VG-85 are unprecedented. Her daughter Stantons Margaret is Canada’s Nr.1 for gLPI...
Wabash-Way Emilyann: Now Ranked as Canada’s Nr.7 Brood-Cow All-Time
At 47 stars, Emilyann is now Canada’s 7th ranked brood cow of all-time. Of course, Shottle daughters have become super brood cows all over the world but Emilyann had the...
UK Mahala Family: No Notable AI Bulls, But Some Very Impressive Females!
100,000kg/220,462lb milk cows, multiple generations of EX, high genomics and show-stars – a snapshot of the many reasons why the stalwart UK Mahala family continues to remain so popular… Of...
141 Years after her Emigration from Boksum to New YorkThe Family of America’s Historic Record Cow Pietertje is Still Performing in Friesland
No wonder that she became world famous: Pietertje 2, the Friesian cow that emigrated to America and there set a world record for production that stood for no less than...
Cow Country - April 2023
In February 2023, HI presented 22 EX daughters of the Roxy descendant Gloryland-I Goldwyn Locket EX-94. Remarkable: an unmentioned VG-85 Doorman out of Locket has likely provided the most valuable...
Cow Country II - April 2023
Grand Champion at the Estevanens Show in Switzerland last fall was Londaly Armani Lovely-Red EX-94. Earlier in her career Lovely had been Intermediate Champion at the Swiss Expo 2017 and...
Olla family: The bloodline behind Ireland’s only living homebred EX-96 cow
No sexed semen, strictly no flushing, yearlings in the barn by F16 Rocket (a sire born in 1983) and a closed herd for nearly 20 years… what gems could possibly...
The “Golden Cross” Monterey Daughters of Global Cow Winner Hanker
There have been a number of recognized “Golden Crosses” in the breeding world…in this cow family it was Monterey over Cookiecutter Mogul Hanker and then King Doc over the Monterey’s....
In Pursuit’s pedigree Fustead Emory Blitz, Super-millionaire with a Remarkable Amount of Breeding Power
In HI’s March edition, Pine-Tree-I Pursuit (from Semex) came into view as one of the most faultless sires in the Holstein breed – also at a high index level. Reason...
Cow Country I - March 2023
Jelmer van der Meer, who milks his 90-cow herd in the north of the Netherlands, began investing in embryos for the first time 5 years ago. The result of his...
Paquet Kolya Goldwyn: Cow of the Year, and a Global Cow Finalist
Paquet Kolya Goldwyn EX-92 was born on the 13th June 2007. The Canadian Goldwyn daughter was out of an EX Titanic and was a 7th generation in the Paquet herd...