Belgium
Vlabel Holsteins: High Quality Belgian Herd Overflowing with Zapping Influence
At Vlabel Holsteins, True Type conformation was traditionally the most prominent breeding goal. Especially the udder traits received a lot of attention in the Belgian herd. For the past number...
Young Breeders School Battice: The experiences of Team USA
The Young Breeder School (YBS) in Battice (Belgium) is well-known around the world. The young participants arrived from 17 different countries. Primarily from Europe, but also from Canada, New Zealand,...
Cow Country I - May 2024
Scrolling through social media is a phenomenon of our time, with countless contributions being ignored or unconsciously acknowledged, and then there are posts where one has the feeling to scroll...
Cow Country - March 2024
Jean-Baptiste Decheppe of Gaec du Tombuy at Gimecourt in the north-east of France has a cow with a special story. ‘Gourmande was not born on our farm. It was our...
Enormous growth for BBG
HI has already reported various times about the Belgian Blue Group (BBG) and that is not surprising: the organization has a large offering of >200 sires and is active in...
Cow Country II - March 2023
Keur Zohare VG-87, owned by Marcel Heylen (Keur Holsteins) in Belgium, is a remarkable Holstein. Thanks to her sire Ohare-P and her dam, a daughter of Laron-P, she was born...
Unique in HI: Farms with the Highest kg/lb Fat + Protein Productions World-wide Part 1
In the Holstein world, high productions always speak to the imagination. Tremendous records of individual animals, but certainly also high averages at the herd level. But how high are the...
Cow Country - June 2022
The family of Al-Lew Monterey Ashley EX-94 is gaining popularity. While her sons Aristocrat, Arrow and Armagedon-P have been well-liked for a while, the family most recently attracted attention at...
Zwanebloem Holsteins: Beautiful Dairy Farm in Belgium with a Breeding Dream
Forty years ago, Roger and Annemie Masscheleyn purchased a lease farm with twenty cows and twenty hogs. Together with their sons Wannes and Reinout and their families, they founded one...
Cow Country II - April 2022
Last month, HI wrote about Ernevale Rosina EX-95, owned by Seamus Gunn, Northern Ireland. Did you know that her sire, Belan Mingo Jubilant-Red (<Jubilant), is also the maternal great-grandsire of...
Cow Country - December 2021
With Himeyers Brain, a brand new prefix appeared in the top of the Swiss sire line-up. The Letsgo son from Swissgenetics scores 1602 gIset, with high indexes for conformation and...
Exclusive: The ultimate update about the herds worldwide with the most EX cows (1)
To breed a Holstein that is distinguished as being EX is an accomplishment to be proud of even in times when Holstein breeding is continually striving towards more commercial goals....