Cow Families
The British Rickis: Unique with Eight Daughters Scored EX-93 and higher?!
From the outset, a question for all HI readers world-wide: do you know a cow with at least eight daughters that all score 93 points or more? A question that...
Hezbollah: The Unexpected Breeding Potential of a Madison Winner
‘We are pleased to see several of her granddaughters coming up with impressive numbers – several of them have tested nearly 4 points on type. We really believe she will...
Cow Country - August 2018
What do you know about Barbie’s older full-sister Rgncrst-Rh Durham Bianca EX-92? Perhaps you didn’t even know she existed? To us, this line of this world-renowned family has been in...
Loyalyn Goldwyn June - from a VG-85-2yr-old to a renowned North-American superstar
Owen Sound, a city in the northern area of southwestern Ontario, Canada, is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham rivers. Dairy farming in this area is particularly...
Cow Country - July 2018
Fradon Rudolph Jodie EX 22*: The global success of this family needs no introduction. Numerous intriguing lines can be found in many different countries worldwide, however today we investigate the...
Cow Country Red - July 2018
With maximum votes from judges, the American KHW Super Aderyn RC EX-90 from Nova Holsteins was selected in HI 06/2018 as Red Impact Cow 2018. Her dam KHW Goldwyn Aiko...
A Very Special Chapter
This chapter plays out in the splendid landscape around West Charlton, a very small town in the far eastern part of the American state of New York. It is a...
Sue: The Brood Cow That Rarely Misses
June 2015 HI wrote about an up and coming brood cow. Exactly 3 years later we revisit this interesting individual, who is no longer an emerging talent but an outright...
Mirna: Life in the Shadows of her Famous Sister Mirror
The US cow Seagull-Bay Oman Mirror is one of the legendary brood cows of the breed: Dam of Robust and foundation behind such bulls as Jedi and Biggie. A more...
Cow Country - June 2018
In Stuhr, close to the northern German city of Bremen, GHH Talent Marie owned by Frank and Frederike Kastens recently became the first German Red Holstein to score EX-95. It...
Irish Odettas: Stars for Protein and Longevity
Cows in their 7th, 8th, 10th and even 15th lactation. Protein figures of close to 4%, and even above. Impossible? Certainly not! Within the 90-head Radney dairy herd of Henry...
SBH Talent Snowred - Germany’s First 6th Generation EX
This story could have gone differently. And maybe we would not have heard about it if Kirsten and Heike Kemmerling had actually given up their dairy operation completely 5 years...