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Photo: Han Hopman
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Dewgood Holsteins: Decades of Breeding Provides Elite Productions with Jersey-like Components
While some farms around Oconto in Wisconsin currently milk thousands of cows, Dean and Wanda Good continue to manage 70 Holsteins along with the accompanying young stock. The highest profitability per cow is the economic goal at Dewgood Holsteins. The reason why for decades already they have bred for high productions and high components. So that on some days, they ship Jersey-like milk. Results that Dean Good could not even have dreamed of as a young breeder.
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Fertility Traits: Different in Each Country but they are Producing Positive Gains
From the 60s through to the early 2,000s, cow production increased enormously though the fertility of the Holstein cow declined alarmingly. 20 years ago, selection for fertility traits was established, and with the assistance of genomics, has started to reverse that downward trend in fertility. Here we look at the fertility traits that are evaluated in some of the main Holstein countries. Read more >
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Ladyrose Caught Your Eye: The Unix Daughter Who Can Do It All
From time to time a superstar arrives on the Holstein scene, a cow that can do it all; a top producer with the type to compete at the top level, a great brood cow with daughters to follow in her footsteps, and a prominent bull dam as well. Ladyrose Caught Your Eye EX-95 is such a cow. Backed by one of the great cow families of the breed, this Unix daughter can do it all. Read more >
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Startmore Rudolph: Likely the Most Generous Source of Pure Brood Cows in the Breed
Immediately an intriguing question. How many bulls do you know that provided even more influential daughters than Startmore Rudolph? Just read along: Wesswood-H Rudy Missy. Windsor-Manor Rud Zip. Ladys-Manor Ruby Jen. Coyne-Farms Daffy. Regancrest Rudolph Dena. Elaine. Askew Rudolph Amanda. Fradon Rudolph Jodie. Windy-Knoll-View Promise. Relough Rudolph Danna. Mayerlane Rud Bubble. Woodmarsh Rudolph Lyme 5. Nikki. Ms Solid-Gold Rud Cherry. Sher-Est Rudolph Stress… and of course, we are most likely forgetting several. It is clear: as the source of remarkable breeding daughters, Rudolph is of exceptional calibre. Read more >
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From Goldsun to Ashton, Athos & Aladdin Genes from Former World Champion Toc-Farm Amyly Continue to Blossom
Last February in HI you found an extensive report about the Italian Holstein star Castelverde Goldsun Laura EX-96, and a month earlier a portrait of her splendid Irish half-sister Cormacoo Goldsun Fame EX-96. Now we travel to the source of their shared sire, Goldsun. To Toc-Farm, on the coast of the Italian region of Tuscany, where the Amyly family now accounts for about 80% of the herd. The family recently provided bulls like Toc-Farm Ashton, Athos, Bakul, Zachary, and Aladdin. Read more >
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Photo: Christine Massfeller
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Everyone Wants to Milk the (Very) Long-lasting Cows from Saetteli Holsteins
Dominik Saetteli himself milks about 60-70 Holsteins. ‘That depends on the intensity of sales. Annually we sell more than 40 milking cows. If demand is high, then we ourselves drop down to about 60 milking cows,’ explains the friendly Swiss breeder, who for many years already has sold his cows directly to other farmers, without sales or an agent. How could Saetteli build up this business? ‘That is long-term work, and depends on reliable cows that milk and last a long time,’ says Saetteli. One cow has developed into an icon of longevity for the farm: Saetteli Shottle Heaven. She became no less than sixteen years old, scored VG-89, and produced >151,000 kg/332,200 lb. Here is the fascinating story of a (high) longevity herd in Switzerland.
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