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April 18, 2024 Today is it time for the Dutch gNVI indexes of the black&white and red&white females in Europe. Topping the B&W gNVI female index is an Enclave daughter: DS Claudette at +449 gNVI. At the 2nd spot we find a Designer daughter at +444 gNVI in combination with +109 Type and making the top 3 complete with a Shout *RC daughter at +424 gNVI. At the 15th spot we find Percival daughter DG Gerry at +382 gNVI. She guarantees in her US-index +3085 GTPI with +1034 NM$ and +1.01 PTAT! Charttopper in the gNVI R&W ranking is a Skat P *RC daughter at +415 gNVI. She is followed by a Borax daughter at +410 gNVI and at the third spot we find a Rammstein-Red daughter at +397 gNVI. At 4th spot for Bouw Mask Rody at +394 gNVI. She is a Mask-Red daughter from the Golden-Oaks Mark Prudence EX-95-USA cow family and is close family member to the Red Impact Cow 2021: Lakeside Ups Red Range VG-86-NL 2yr.! Click further for the complete ranking.   Read More

April 17, 2024 Veelhorst DG Casino is the most used bull in Germany with almost 30.000 inseminations in 2022-2023! He is bred by Diamond Genetics & De Veelhorst and sold to VOST in Germany. He is the former #1 RZG bull in the breed, has a Bookem-free pedigree, sired by DG Charley from a Mardi Gras x Planet x Snowman (Broeks Betty). He has in his index 7353 daughters and guarantees huge production traits (DE 04/24: +1630 Milk / positive components / RZM 150), >111 RZE, high fitness traits and an excellent udder health (RZS 116). We find also in this top 10 with most used bulls in Germany DG OH Topstone with 12.950 inseminations! DG OH Topstone is the #1 B&W RZG daughter proven sire at +145 RZG (04/24), has 6701 daughters in his German index and notes +1586kgM with positive components, +114 RZE and +143 RZM. Continue reading..   Read More

April 16, 2024 Share DG DH Pearl EX-91-NL EX-91-MS, owned by Dick & Rosita van Deelen, recently won the Senior Champion title at the Avondbloesemshow 2024! Pearl EX-91-NL produced already >100.000kgM and is the first Powerball P daughter in the Netherlands classified with EX-91-NL with EX-91 for her Frame, EX-91 for her Mammary System and EX-90 Feet&Legs. She is from a VG-86-NL 2yr. old POLLED Shotglass daughter followed by Butlerview Colt Pixie *RC P EX-91-USA (s. Colt P Red), the dam to Butlerview AltaIllini P @Alta out of Massey daughter Richmond-FD Pompey EX-91-USA. Share DG DH Pearl EX-91-NL is dam to Share Pearl 435 (s. Radio), she became at the Avondbloesemshow 2024 Miss Betuwe 2024!  Continue reading...   Read More

April 12, 2024 Antonio Campos and Jan de Vries are proud to announce that one of the most unique heifers is sold to Diamond Genetics. She is an unique heifer with a PTAT of +3.58 and an overall GTPI of +3185, combining +1169kgM with +0.26% Fat and +0.13% Protein. No other heifer WORLDWIDE combines these traits! She has the numbers to produce topranking bulls but also to create future sons and grandsons that can make offspring that could be your next showwinner! She has a great outcross pedigree with: Dropbox x Parfect x Rapid. This great family needs no introduction in the Holstein Breed. She is from the populair family of Rabur Outside Pandora EX-91, which even one of the first AI Total bulls delivered with Bouw MOM Paco. Continue reading..   Read More

April 11, 2024 Europe offers some of the highest Red and White and Red Carrier females in the Holstein breed based on GTPI base. The influence of several foundation cows are significant and dominating in the list, with for example Golden Oaks Mark Prudence & Sanderij Massia Sneeuwwitje. A new leader in the R&W GTPI ranking with females at +3058 GTPI from the Cookiecutter MOM Halo family! She is followed by an early Tricky-Red daughter from the Netherlands: Koepon Tricky Range 319 Red at +3049 GTPI and making the top 3 complete with also a Tricky-Red daughter at +2995 GTPI. Furthermore at the 8th spot we find an early Foundation heifer from the Golden Oaks Mark Prudence family: DG Damiana Red at +2944 GTPI. Continue reading...   Read More

April 9, 2024 Genosource Captain has again a lot of influence in the April '24 run with females! He added almost 2400 daughters to his index and increased to +3287 GTPI (+34 for GTPI) with 4153 daughters in his index. His son, DG Space (+3186 GTPI / +1192 NM$) delivered this run the #1 GTPI heifer in Europe with DG Magpie at +3275 GTPI, which she combines with a tremendous balanced index, as well she is the #1 heifer in Europe with >+3200 GTPI and >+2.00 PTAT! The #2 GTPI Calf (<9 Months) in Europe is a Thorson daughter at +3272 GTPI and the #3 GTPI Calf (<9 Months) in Europe is a daughter of Percival: DG Janna at +3258 GTPI. Check all European top rankings out here!   Read More

April 3, 2024 The Dutch gNVI indexes just came in and are ONLINE available. Due to an adjustment of the basis, the breeding values for all bulls with an gNVI breeding value have fallen by approximately 20 NVI points this run. The publication rules for the conformation breeding values of imported bulls have also been adjusted. The #1 NVI B&W Genomic sire this run is Delta Boyan (s. Warren P *RC) at +391 gNVI, followed by Tigerwoods De La Vigne at +386 gNVI and making the top 3 complete with Sitron at +379 gNVI. Furthermore we find in this top 20 DG Dr. No @ AI-Total at +328 gNVI in combination with +1950kgM. The #1 NVI R&W Genomic sire this run is Delta Cream P Red at +375 gNVI. At the 4th spot we find NH Skyliner-Red (s. Sputnik *RC) at +358 gNVI in combination with +3739 kgM and +532 INET. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 2, 2024 The top 3 with PLI Genomics bulls is bred by Diamond Genetics this April '24 run! Topping this ranking is DG Peace @ AI-Total at +908 PLI (+22). He is a Captain son out of Paessens Jezebel VG-86-NL 2yr. from the Meier-Madows EL Jezebel EX-92-USA cow family. He is followed by another Captain son, DG Space @ AI-Total at +873 PLI (+13) from the Ladys-Manor Ruby D cow family. Making the top 3 complete by a sire, bred by Diamond Genetics and sold to Cogent: DG Dillon at +868 PLI. Topping the PLI Daughter Proven ranking is again Genosource Captain at +874 PLI, followed by Westcoast River at +778 PLI and at the third spot FB Kenobi Targaryen at +710 PLI. Continue reading..   Read More

March 26, 2024 DG Maserati Red is the #1 Welness Trait bull in the WORLD with WT$ 420, that is more than 70 points higher than the #2 WT$ bull in the World! Maserati is as well in the Top 20 RZG for R&W Bulls in Germany with +158 RZG, in the top of the Dutch R&W ranking (gNVI +335) and has a very complete & balanced American index and is a great Udder Health specialist with +2.52 SCS / +4.5 Mastitis index / +111 Z-Mastits! He is a Koepon Camden son out of Solitair P Red daughter, DG R Aliena Red VG-87-NL VG-88-MS 2yr. and goes back through BTS Avea-Red VG-89-NL to KHW Goldwyn Aiko *RC EX-91-USA. Continue reading..   Read More

March 11, 2024 DG Magpie is the new number 1 GTPI heifer in Europe with +3280 GTPI, which makes her a Top 25 GTPI heifer in the World as well. While she is the highest PTAT type heifer as well in the top of the Global GTPI ranking with +2.47 PTAT! Magpie is sired by DG Space out of Captain daughter Mallory. 2nd dam to DG Magpie is DGF Magic, she is a King Doc daughter and full sister to DGF Magalia VG-85-FR 2yr., the dam to Davinci son DGF PSG @ AI-Total. DG Magpie is the #1 GTPI daughter of DG Space and offers an unique profile with +1530kgM and +208 combined Fat + Protein / +1160 NM$ / +4.9 PL / 1.4% SCE / +1.12 Stature / +2.09 UDC / +1.22 FLC. Continue reading..   Read More