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October 17, 2013 A very successful day for Twin Genetics with the latest classification day. The famous Goldwyn dtr Twin Uzelli scored EX-91-FR! Earlier this year she won the Grand Championship at the Normandy Regional Show. She goes back to the Canadian Meadow-Brdige Rosetta cow family, which also delivered the European Intermediate Champion Huddlesford Duplex Medora, from Ponderosa Holsteins. Other highlights this day were Twin Renate & Twin Goldy, which scored VG-88-FR and VG-87-FR as 2yr. olds. The 135 milking cows in the herd averaging VG-87,2 points and included 20 EXCELLENT, 107 VG and 8 GP cows!   Read More

October 17, 2013 Vekis Paige (s. Numero Uno) is the #1 RZG Heifer Worldwide, born in 2012 with +157 RZG! Paige goes back on the American brood cow El-Dor Saber Pansy EX-95-USA, through a tremendous sire stack with the bulls Xacobeo, Stol Joc, Laudan, Durham and Formation! Her pregnancies made with the #1 RZB bull Balisto (RZG +166) are some of the highest PA RZG pregnancies world wide right now. A 1st Choice bull from this pregnancies sells in the Online Elite Bull Sale (Start: November the 13th 2013)   Read More

October 16, 2013 One of the first One Million Dollar Cows, Lylehaven Lila Z EX-94-CAN recently passed away.  She is the foundation behind plenty of successful show- and index cows and popular bulls. The mating with Goldwyn turned out to be the golden cross, resulting in great cows like Comestar Goldwyn Lilac, Lava, Layla and Acecroft Lila Z. From which Layla scored EX-95 and won big shows, Lila Z is the dam to Larson, Lava to Lavaman and Lilac to Lexor, Latimer and grand dam to Liquid Gold. Lylehaven Lila Z her legacy continues all around the world, in France through a beautiful Sid-daughter ILY Lisa Z. She was sold as an embryo to Holstein ILY Pasquet in France. Her dam, Hood Baxter Lucia VG-88 was born in Denmark, sold to England and is straight from the one and only Comestar Goldwyn Lilac VG-89-CAN 4yr. Lucia her Planet sister is the #3 GLPI cow in Canada and dam to Liquid Gold and Willpower at Genervations.    Read More

October 15, 2013 A great offering of cows and heifers are selling in the Eurogenes Online Heifer Sale, which starts on November the 7th 2013.
Including several heifers over 24- and 2500 GTPI and over 150 RZG! Click further for a first preview of the heifers selling in this edition!   Read More

October 15, 2013 Butz-Butler Gold Barbara EX-92-USA is one of the absolute show cracks in North-American at this moment and was Intermediate Champion at the World Dairy Expo 2013. Vekis Genetics has a tremendous milking dtr out of Barbara's sister, Anderstrup Freddie Barb. She was purchased through the Eurogenes Online Heifer Sale. Sire Freddie is the current #3 proven sire in the USA with over 2600 dtrs in his index and is not available in Europe. Embryos from her were exported already as a maiden heifer and she has some really nice dtrs at Vekis at the moment.   Read More

October 14, 2013 Click further for Shanael Goldsun Blossom her picture. She is a lovely daughter of the popular Italian Sire of Sons, Toc-Farm Goldsun. Last week at the All-Breeds All-Britain Nataional Calf Show she placed 2nd in her class by Mr. Paul Harrison from England. Later this day she won the Honarable Mention Grand Championship of the All-Britain Calf Show 2013. Blossom her dam is an Excellent September Storm-daugher and the 6th generations VG or Excellent.   Read More

October 14, 2013 Broekhuis Vee from the Netherlands has purchased a unique Red & Polled grand daughter of the World famous Des-Y-Gen Planet Silk RC VG-87-USA 2yr. Her name is MS Sunview Se Suri Red *PO and is from the full sister to Dymentholm S Sypmatico RC @ Semex. Her dam sired by Snowman has +153 RZG and is also a sister to the high Red Carrier bulls Seneca RC @ Genervations & Stoic RC @ TAG , all these 3 bulls are in the Top 25 for RC GTPI!.    Read More

October 11, 2013 Soureth Holsteins from the Vaessen-family won the 1st position highest milk production herd in the Dutch region Limburg for 3 times in a row. This year the herd average increased again, the 100 head herd produced no less than 12.492 kgmilk with 4.3%F and 3.5%P average, with an EJR of € 3.082, the highest in the Netherlands of this year! This huge production is realized by members of international cow families, like that of Grietje 80, Lylehaven Lila Z, Ronelee Outside Dabble and more!   Read More

October 11, 2013 Last year Watermolen Holsteins from Tienhoven imported a special combination of embryos from the USA through Diamond Genetics which resulted in 2 very special heifers with a big future at Watermolen Holsteins. Watermolen Supersire Marijke is the highest of the 2 heifers, ranking in the top of the list with GTPI +2385 and scoring over 3 points for PTAT! She is the highest dtr of the very special brood cow Kevrel Shottle May EX-92-USA, a great new foundation cow within the Da-Net Pansy cow family! Read more about them.   Read More

October 11, 2013 Bouw Shamrock Rocky is the #1 RZG Shamrock son in the breed with RZG 156, he has a great proof with plenty of milk (+1286 and +0.16% protein) including 130 for RZE (Type) and super fitness traits. With GTPI +2431 he is the highest GTPI bull in the line-up from CRV and #3 GTPI Shamrock-son World Wide. Embryos sired by Rocky and embryos out of Rocky's mother are selling!   Read More