German Holstein News No. 20 - February 2009

February 2009
No. 20 / 3.00 Euro
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EuroTier2008 review
German winter shows
BAP - the next generation of mating programs
Holstein breeding in the Balkan states
Index
GGI: Day of the Newcomer 2008
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The Day of the Newcomer on the
GGI premises in Cloppenburg has
become a real event. Brought into
being two years ago as an opener
to the All-European Championships
in Oldenburg, this event received
great feedback. This year the 2nd
Day of the Newcomer took place on
May 29th, 2008. Almost 1,000 interested breeders from Germany
and foreign visitors from more than
15 countries came and took the op-
Day of the Newcomer 2008
EuroTier2008: German
top bulls under one Roof
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BAP - Bull Advise Programm
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Winter Shows RBB, RSA, WEU
7-10 Comment january proof run
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New bulls
12-13 Second crop
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Report: Holsteins Balkan
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News
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Events
Photovaria
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People from more than 15 countries visited GGI
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Cloppenburg
Photo front cover: Alliance 10.142272
daughter Madame
Photographer:
Fenna Beenenga
portunity to get informed by the
breeding organizations about their
current actions in breeding.
However, the clear highlight was the
presentation of 10 daughter groups
of current and prospective sires of
the GGI member organizations. 6
Holstein (Chapman, Cheerio, Sefir,
Sundowner, Zabing, Zar) and 4 Red
Holstein (Fashio, Forest, Ruacana,
Rugny) daughter groups were
shown. Each progeny group presented 4 exemplarily prepared animals.
The programme on the GGI premises was topped off by different “joinin activities” like bull riding, milking
contest, “coconut shy” or “goal wall
German
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available
as PDF
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shooting”. The GGI plate and further coffee and cakes cared for the
Not only the progenies were fun!
guest’s physical well-being. Ver y
popular as well was the ice-cream
booth due to the fabulous weather
with high temperatures.
All visitors had the opportunity to
visit the farm “Urban” in Wüsting
(240 dairy cows with young stock)
and the poduction halls of “Urban”.
Also the open-air museum in Cloppenburg was visited by a lot of
Interested visitors on the ‘Day of the Newcomer’
guests. On the 15 ha area of the
Lower Saxony Open Air Museum
more than 50 farming and trade
houses from the 16th – 19th century
were restored. An old church, a
school and the “Dorfkrug” top off
the rural character.
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EuroTier 2008: German top bulls under one roof
About 130,000 visitors from all over
the world attended the world’s
biggest fair for animal husbandry
and management from November
11th until November 14th in
Hanover. The numbers increased by
11% compared to 2006. With that,
it has been the EuroTier exhibition
with the highest number of visitors
ever.
1,764 exhibitors from 46 countries
(+15 % compared to 2006) had their
Customers from the whole world are guests at GGI
products on display.
The well-visited extensive GGI display area, jointly organized with
DHV and ZVE and all GGI member
organizations with their progeny
groups, was located in Hall 27.
Seven Holstein (Gibor, Jannsen, Jefferson, Juote, Juwel, Leif and Minister), three Red Holstein groups (Jerudo, Laurel and Ludox) as well as one
Angler-group (Zober) were the eye
catchers at the stand. Per daughter
group three very well prepared animals were presented.
For the first time, there were also
five beef bulls shown at the GGI
booth: Lesko (Limousin), Präsident P
(Simmental beef), Timor (Ucker-
Under one roof, the GGI members exhibited at the EuroTier.
märker), Rob (Angus) as well as Ulino (Blonde d’Aquitaine).
At the “TopTierTref f”, German
breeding organizations presented
their eleven Holstein and Angler
daughter groups at daily shows. Additionally, three representative progeny groups were presented to the
audience in English language as
well as in Russian language. This
presentation gave the visitors detailed information about Holstein
breeding in Germany and a good
idea about the different breeds and
their advantages.
The visitors took the opportunity to
visit GGI and their member organizations at their booths to get the latest information in genetics and service.
The next EuroTier is going to take
place from November 16th until November 19th 2010 in Hanover.
Please note that there are extra
GHN issues available for “Day of
the Newcomer 2008” as well as
“EuroTier 2008” in Hanover as pdf
files on www.ggi.de. View from the show “Top-Tier-Treff”
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BAP: the unique mating program
The German data centre vit in co-operation
with the breeding industry has developed a
trend-setting mating program called BAP
(Bull Advise Program). BAP is used by almost all German breeding organizations
and now an adapted version for international use is available via GGI. Exciting
unique features are u. a. matching cows
and bulls by farmers individual breeding
goal and internet as technical platform.
Traditional mating programs are running
on PCs or laptops with all the disadvantages of this system in daily practice: limited performance and memory, need of program and data update, problems with
backup and many more disadvantages.
BAP is internet based, i.e. the program is
running on a central server at vit and therefore automatically always with the most
current data and version of program. BAP
is fully included in the service and backup
system of vit and data losses are almost impossible. This includes user individual and
password protected access only to own data. Furthermore BAP is multilingual and
available already for several languages
and extension to more languages is in
progress.
Farm ers breeding goal
One of the main differences to many other
mating programs is the farmers individual
breeding goal as guideline for every
matching of cows and bulls. By simply selecting the traits important for the individual breeding goal and giving relative
weights in percentages to these traits, the
farmer defines his individual breeding goal
(Figure 1). The program recalculates the to-
Figure 2: Matching bulls are ranked by expected value of calf i.e. farmers’ individual breeding goal...
Figure 3: ... reasons why bulls don’t match on this cow are given
tal merit index for all bulls according to this
individual breeding goal and ranks all
bulls advised for an individual cow by this
individual total merit index. Because parts
of herds can easily selected by all information available (e.g. cows total merit) different groups of animals can be mated according to modified goals like “easy calving” when searching for the best bulls on
heifers.
Select am on g 100,000 bu lls
BAP can work with all bulls included in Interbull evaluations. This are e.g. more than
100,000 proven Holstein A.I. bulls. It does
not make sense to include all these bulls for
Figure 1: Define your individual breeding goal by simply selecting from all traits and giving them percentages of relative weight
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mating a specific herd, because not from
all bulls semen is available. With BAP it is
easy to define several individual bull pools,
e.g. the active bulls from your semen supplier or bulls with semen in your container.
In div idual m at ing
Self-evident BAP includes control of inbreeding (different levels possible), genetic
defects and the individual needs of every
cow. These “points of attention” are not
limited to conformation traits, but as well
production and functional traits like milking
speed or udder health can be included. For
all traits the necessary improvement can be
given in four degrees. Conformation traits
to be improved are recorded with a simple
mobile sub-program on a PDA. List of animals in the herd is downloaded and
recorded data are uploaded directly via
mobile internet or connecting the PDA with
any PC with internet access.
R e a so ns w hy
BAP gives a list with the (best) matching
bulls for every cow. The bulls are ranked
according to the expected individual total
merit index of the cows. So the expected
differences in using one or another bull are
given (Figure 2).
Very informative is that BAP not just lists the
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Individual out put
Flexibility and individuality is realized for
the output of BAP, too. With an easy to handle print manager (Figure 5) the output is individually
designed; e.g. number and sorting of
information (Figure 6). All printable outputs are
PDFs and therefore can be saved
Figure 4: In case of inbreeding BAP gives the percentage of inbreeding and the
and
send as email
source: e.g. using Jardin results in 1.563 % inbreeding because bull-dams-siresattachments. Outsire (BMVV) is the same as cows-dams-sire (KMV)
put as data file in different formats for further use e.g. in herd management programs
available for cows, bulls and farmers goal.
is possible, too.
Nevertheless there is always some extra information especially the breeder has that is
I nt o t h e f u t u r e
not included, e.g. because it is not “numerical”. Therefore BAP is flexible and manuBAP is the mating program of the next genally re-ranking of the BAP-result is possible
eration. It sets new standards in performwith one click.
ance, individuality and included features. It
was designed as an assisting tool for manmatching bulls on the individual cow, but
for every bull in the mating pool why he
does not match, too (Figure 3).
BAP includes the maximum information
aging genetic improvement of dairy herds.
Because flexibility and farmers goal are
standing first in BAP, it has become a
tremendous story of success in Germany
independent from herd size or breeding
goal. Even elite pedigree breeders use BAP
intensively because the amount of figures is
increasing in today’s international breeding. BAP helps to select and sort and does
not forget anything important - but the final
decision is still up to the farmer.
Dr. Luca Pulcinelli, GGI Italy, while recording
cow data with a PDA
Using BAP in pract ice:
Figure 5: A few clicks in the print manager...
Figure 6: ... create an individual print output
GGI-Italia tested the beta version of BAP for international use during the last months. Meanwhile
GGI salesman Dr. Luca Pulcinelli gave mating advices for more than 2,000 Italian cows:
“BAP really is a fantastic program. You feel common with the program right from the beginning
because it was made for and with the assistance
of practical people. That it is an internet based
program makes it so simple. I don’t have to care
about anything. Everything since the last click is
saved automatically. My personal BAP data are
available from any computer with internet access,
like internet banking. Farmers expect mainly correction of conformation traits because this is basically what most other mating programs do. But
BAP can include all traits including functional
traits. Individual mating even for heifers on the
base of their pedigree indices for all traits is nice
to cover the whole herd. Every third calf is born
as 1st calf! In first instance farmers don’t believe
that BAP really works on the base of their individual breeding goal. Seeing the different results
if we just change the breeding goal convinces
them at once.
Very important is the detailed information on possible inbreeding and where in the pedigree it
comes from! The same is for ranking all the included bulls on every cow. Most farmers have semen in stock and if these bulls don’t show up in
the BAP mating list they assume that is because
we want to sell other bulls. When I show them that
these bulls were really tested on every cow and
exactly why they were excluded, advantage of
BAP becomes once again obviously. Now these
clients first run BAP and after buy semen that really fits on their cows and in the right proportions.
I’m already looking forward to the first generation of cows made with the assistance of BAP.
What I have seen in Germany makes me sure that
BAP helps to maximize progress and uniformity
of the herd.”
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Winter shows
RBB
On November 20th 2008, the RBB show
“Blickpunkt Rind” was held in Paaren.
Progeny groups of the second crop bulls
Janosch, Jefferson, Leroy and Sudan and
the newcomer Sascha (Step x Esar x
Gigh) were presented (first breeding value in April 2009).
Jefferson-daughter “Jamila” was awarded to be the best daughter from the progeny groups of the show (see p.10).
“MAG Schirin” by Sascha became reserve champion.
The outstanding Laudan-daughter “SL
Marga 3” dominated the four young cow
classes.
The Judge Martin Biederbick made her
the grand champion by awarding her
with the title „Miss Blickpunkt Rind
2008”.
Laudan-daughter “Lotte” was declared
Laudan (Lukas x Raider) daughter “SL Marga 3”
champion of the 2nd lactation cows.
Ticket-daughter “Ballade“ was able to
win the title in the class of the older cows.
As a novelty, in line with the desire for
breeding longevity, a class of long-term
production cows has been shown in
Paaren (> 50,000 kg milk lifetime production). The Juote-daughter “SL Heidin“
won this competition with a lifetime production of 58,378 kg milk– 3,45% fat –
2.015 kg fat – 3,67% protein – 2.144 kg
protein.
The Jefferson-daughters (Jocko Besne x
Dombinator) were juvenile, even so big
and long with very good dairy type, well
balanced with slightly sloped and wide
rumps. They conspicuously showed well
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textured udders, highly and firmly attached udders, with high rear udders,
strong ligaments and a good teat placement. The Jefferson-progenies were
awarded the “best progeny group” by
the audience.
The very uniform Sudan-daughters
(Storm x Prelude) had much depth and
strength. The straight topline passed into
long sloped rumps. The Feet and legs are
excellent: strong and clear bones with a
parallel rear leg set less angled, very dry
hocks, high foot angles and a perfect locomotion. The firmly attached and well
balanced udders were high and wide in
the rear with an optimal teat placement.
RSA
For the first time, RSA’s “Nikolausschau“
took place on December 12th as an
evening event in Bismark. Ten extraordinary second crop
Jannsen-daughters
(Jocko Besn x Mandel) – that captivated with their uniformity – were presented. These dairy,
young cows impressed with lots of
dairy typ, with a
strong topline and
correctly
sloped
rumps. Highlights
were their perfectly
sloped and seted
feet and legs resulting in optimal
presented locomotion. The rear udders are highly and
Jannsen (Jocko Besn x Mandel) daughter “Sonate”
widely attached and have a strong suspensory ligament. Jannsen daughter
“Sonate” won this class ahead of
“MHD Dina”.
NOG Edling-daughter “Susan” was
awarded the winner of the middle
classes. Legal-daughter “Beyonce” was
the winner of the DS program cows.
Riverland-heifer “Rieka” received the
“Reserve Champion” title.
WEU
The Weser-Ems-Union presented the
“WEU-Konvent“ in Oldenburg on January 15th 2009. Progenies of the second crop bulls Jannsen and Laurel as
well as of the promising new sire Sallas
were shown.
The Jannsen-daughters (Jocko Besn x
Mandel) convinced – as already at
“Nikolausschau” – with an outstanding
group.
The Laurel-daughters (Layout x Caveman) presented theirselves once more
with excellent feet and legs and perfect
udders.
The daughters of the Stormatic-son
Sallas shined with clean and firmly attached udders as well as correctly
sloped rumps and very dry hocks.
Winner of the progenies was the
Sallas (Stormatic x Rudolph) daughter group
Jannsen-daughter “MHG Dina” which
was also awarded reserve winner in
the heifer competition. “Laskia” of Laurel was reserve winner.
In the old class of the Red Holstein, the
Lentini-daughter “Lor” won in front of
“AMA Marlen” (v. Stadel). Trailordaughter “Antonie” could call herself
reserve winner of the old class at the
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New breeding values january 2009
The new year starts with not many new
Holstein bulls, but new leaders of Red
Holstein and Holstein toplists: Pandora
and Gibor.
Holstein
There have not been so few new bulls
among the official Top-300 Holsteins for a
long time.
But after a long time, there has been a
change at the top of the list. With another
slight increase and over 10,000 daughters,
Gibor is on top for the first time at the age
of 12 years.
He could pass Mas col who has been on top
since February 2006. Mascol’s values are
mostly stable with the first, bigger amount
of 800 new daughters – including 250 in
NLD, DFS, and USA. He is still the highest
Mtoto-son with Shottle worldwide.
From Jardin the first second crop daughters
have calved, but do not influence his figures yet and he remains the highest Jocko
son. Bobas is quite stable in the top-10
(RZM 134) and joined by protein specialist
Em in em (+0,17%) who gained 8 points
traits this is true for his paternal brother
R ot ar y (MGS Zack), too. But Rotary looses
for production.
New bulls
Two new Ramos sons entered the list. Z im pall descends from the life time performance program of RUW. His dam is an excellent Patrick-daughter with almost
100,000kg life time production in 6 lactations. Within the solid conformation transmission of Zimpall
(RZE 115), feet&legs
(125) stick out with
very dry, parallel set
legs and an excellent
locomotion. High
values for udder
health,
longevity
and fertility can be
expected from a
Ramos son. New on
the selling list is as
well Ramos son Rub ix . Via Celsius,
Cash and Belt he
traces back to Delta
Esmeralda like e.g.
Cas s ano is still the highest Champion-son.
Read more in the short portrait at page 11.
His paternal brothers Char t s (RZE 129, RZS
115) and Corporal (RZM 114, +3; RZE
134) can hold or even improve their high
debut figures like does Stormatic son Str obel (RZE 131). Z abin g R C (Zunder x
Rudolph) was one of the positive surprises
in August. With an RZE of 142 (+4), he is
now the highest conformation sire in the
Cassano (Champion x Convincer) daughter “Kleopatra”
Mascol (Mtoto x Rudolph) daughter “Bulgarie” (FRA)
longevity (RZN 124).
Stylist is a winner of this evaluation, too.
He sees his RZM three points raising (134;
+0,19% protein) with his daughters in third
lactation now. Emerson-son Eleve still improves for udderhealth (RZS 105). Zappason Z ar keeps himself safely constant.
Ramos-son Rahn shows with slight increases in almost every trait and +3 RZG points
that his well-balanced first figures were not
just pedigree influence. Read more about
Rahn at page 11. Regarding the functional
Mascol. Rubix combines nice production figures (+0.11%
fat; RZM 116) with
solid conformation
and
functionality.
Like Zimpall he can
be used on heifers.
Other new bulls are
the Riverland sons
Ratziputz and NOG
Rubkar. Rat ziput z is
linebred to Rudolph
(dam
Jocko
x
Rudolph) and excels
for udderhealth (RZS
125) and feet&legs
(121, RZE 117).
NOG Rubk ar’s dam was one of only few
Ubbo daughters successful in the NOG station test for bull dams. Rubkar is a very
complete allround bull.
The Jesther sons Jelder (RZE 137) and Jur us (RZE 124) can improve for production.
Je lt o is absolute stable and the fourth Jesther son Juwel proved his well-balanced
conformation transmission (RZE 125) with
daughters at the EuroTier.
The highest newcomer from the last time
top list and used as sire of sons for both
Red Holstein and Holstein. Z en jo could not
hold his high debut figures decreasing
clearly in production to an RZM of 111.
The fat specialist (+0,36%) still offers something special with slightly increased conformation (RZE 122) and udder health (RZS
117) as well as an RZN of 114.
There is not much change for Vachim (s. V
Brando), Mon am i (s. Mtoto), Tiamo (s.
Tanker), Fot ograf (s. Ford), Folle t o (s.
Ford), NOG Mur m el (s. Manat), NOG
Salem (s. Sierra) and Alliance (s. Allen)
with their test daughters in 2nd and 3rd
lactation but no new daughters so far.
Second crop
Besides Gibor and Mascol leading the
toplist and L audan with 30,000 daughters
back in the top-10 more bulls perform well
with 2nd crop daughters. Mtoto son Millenium keeps rising with now 2,165 daughters and definitely is back in the spotlight
even though he is CVM positive (RZM 111,
RZE 135, RZS 139, RZN 130). Other Mtoto sons with high reliability are Manager
who stabilized (RZE 124, RZS 132, RZN
120) and Merinit . Very successful is Lukas
son Leif with now almost 6,000 daughters
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Current proofs of GGI top sires (January
Further information: www.ggi.de
H O L S T E I N S
Name
RED HOLSTEINS
Sire
MGS
Milk kg
Fat
Fat
Prot
Prot
%
kg
%
kg
RZM
Rel
Dau /Herds Dairy C. Body F&L Udder
RZE
RZR
%
Gibor
667908 TLTV
Gibbon
Sunnyboy
1817
-0.32
42
-0.06
56
123
99
10463 3928
91 135
115
120
119
Mascol ET
840515 TLTV
Mtoto
Rudolph
1504
0.09
70
0.16
67
134
98
1024 460
105 104 121
114
120
107
Jardin
141437 TLTV
Jocko Besn
Tonic
1485
-0.07
54
0.21
71
135
96
183 158
110 109 125
117
126
100
B obas
840609 TL
Dutch Boy
Novalis
2339
-0.40
53
-0.06
74
134
93
99 55
117 105 113
104
113
95
Eminem
810944 TLTV
Eminenz
Maloy
1122
0.06
52
0.17
54
125
94
116 56
119 100 120
114
121
108
Laudan
810695 TLTV
Lukas
Raider
1545
-0.32
32
-0.11
42
114
99
30214 8212
112
80 117
123
117
107
Stylist
632644 TLTV
Steven
Gibbon
1461
0.02
61
0.19
68
134
95
137 107
118 110 124
122
130
86
Eleve
142245 TLTV
Emerson
Storm
2060
-0.45
38
-0.13
56
122
96
155 139
127 117 128
126
137
101
Millennium
821119 TLTV
Mtoto
Luke
887
0.22
57
0.00
30
111
99
2165 399
109 108 135
94
Za r
802593 TLTV
Zappa
Amaretto
1565
0.06
70
0.04
57
128
95
134 60
Emil II
140098 TLTV
Emerson
Esquimau
1158
0.13
60
0.13
52
124
97
Rahn
821429 TLTV
Ramos
Prelude
1220
-0.12
38
-0.05
37
112
Jelder
821367 TLTV
Jesther
Basar
2619
-0.66
35
-0.17
71
130
N ovize
325517 TLTV
Novalis
Jabot
1026
0.11
52
0.12
46
Junker
810821 TLTV
Jocko Besn
Lasso
1628
-0.25
42
0.03
Cassano
328422 TLTV
Champion
Convincer
1831
-0.10
65
Leif
801705 TLTV
Lukas
Zack
895
0.24
59
Juwel
632734 TLTV
Jesther
Lord Lily
2363
-0.69
Jur us
810868 TLTV
Jesther
Esentation
1318
Vachim
565756 TLTV
V Brando
Celsius
new Zimpall
672322 TLTV
Ramos
Patrick
670016 TLTV
Mtoto
328672 TLTV
Mo nami
new Rubix
new Ratziputz
89
125
135
99 107
121
115
96
353 272
102 117 114
115
121
102
93
102 83
105 100 125
117
122
111
95
120 90
119 131 117
128
137
85
120
99
5290 1657
104
88 119
114
114
96
58
125
98
619 175
108 106 122
109
118
107
-0.10
52
124
92
133 114
121 122 123
112
127
103
0.01
31
112
99
5958 1901
86 121 102
120
117
115
23
-0.25
54
118
94
113 80
111 107 119
120
125
96
0.04
58
0.03
48
121
95
132 61
122 104 106
127
124
105
1583
-0.13
52
-0.09
45
118
94
108 94
127 105 132
124
134
104
1321
-0.21
34
-0.09
37
111
87
68 57
102
91 125
110
115
110
Lee
1154
-0.17
31
0.06
45
116
94
102 83
109 107 124
120
126
97
Ramos
Celsius
1257
0.11
62
-0.04
39
116
91
112 93
106
93 121
110
114
102
99
565927 TLTV
Riverland
Jocko Besn
1219
-0.26
25
0.03
45
115
89
107 91
97 107 120
109
116
102
Char ts
142262 TLTV
Champion
Formation
1378
-0.23
34
-0.07
40
113
92
98 89
120 116 112
126
129
105
Rotar y
143311 TLTV
Ramos
Zack
1122
-0.25
23
-0.05
34
108
92
102 91
98 123 117
109
120
109
Strobel
802586 TLTV
Stormatic
T Funkis
1297
-0.16
38
-0.15
30
107
94
116 58
107 115 125
123
131
110
Jeff erso n
810833 TLTV
Jocko Besn
Dombinator
2210
-0.66
21
-0.13
62
123
99
1261 740
119 103 113
121
123
100
Jelto
632915 TLTV
Jesther
Marconi
1769
-0.43
29
-0.05
56
121
93
98 70
98 101 110
119
116
90
new NOG Rubkar
490395 TLTV
Riverland
Ubbo
1393
-0.31
27
-0.10
38
111
86
73 64
97 117
119
119
−
Jannsen
821197 TLTV
Jocko Besn
Mandel
1553
-0.29
35
-0.13
41
113
99
1622 787
122 123 141
111
135
98
Tiamo
326769 TLTV
Tanker
Corsaro
510
0.14
33
0.23
37
113
95
146 108
106 120 122
116
127
100
Fo tograf
565752 TLTV
Ford
Rudolph
1041
-0.02
40
-0.02
34
111
92
91 76
95 108 121
110
117
106
Zabing
565916 TLTV
Zunder
Rudolph
798
-0.12
22
0.03
30
106
94
137 113
114 130 129
130
142
102
Fo lleto
671148 TLTV
Ford
Addison
1872
-0.50
26
-0.23
41
111
95
238 175
106 118 123
120
128
98
N OG Murmel
490212 TLTV
Manat
Bonatus
1077
0.19
62
0.07
44
120
93
92 59
118 123 106
111
119
95
N OG Salem
490247 TLTV
Sierra
Amaretto
1509
-0.31
32
-0.04
48
117
94
104 81
106 119 113
118
123
87
A mador
840503 TLTV
Aaron
Esquimau
1745
-0.53
19
-0.09
50
116
99
1177 220
110
98 118
101
110
92
A lliance
142272 TV
Allen
Lee
634
-0.11
17
0.02
23
101
96
248 174
120 130 129
132
144
100
Zenjo
840685 TLTV
Zenith
Winchester
841
0.36
68
-0.01
28
111
93
132 35
119 102 109
125
122
88
Manager ET
840463 TLTV
Mtoto
Rudolph
821
0.00
34
-0.14
15
99
99
8636 3573
102 110 115
124
124
100
Merinit
821153 TLTV
Mtoto
Geoffry
1538
-0.19
44
-0.12
41
115
99
6118 2336
112 101 114
109
113
93
Corporal
810981 TLTV
Champion
Manat
1318
-0.17
38
-0.12
33
109
93
107 56
125 121 111
131
134
93
Juo te
504296 TLTV
Juror
Cleitus
400
0,19
33
-0.08
7
94
99
27351 9662
128 104 109
129
127
109
118
new Pandora
8
HB-No.
106
916884 TLTV
Paradox
Yava
1872
0.18
96
0.00
63
137
82
40 40
96 115
108
113
−
Malvo y
916301 TLTV
Marmax RF
Celsius
2220
-0.59
38
-0.09
67
130
95
265 169
106 113 124
106
119
101
Jerudo
922393 TLTV
Jerom
Rudolph
1398
-0.01
59
0.03
50
124
91
135 90
106 119 112
110
118
112
B ravisi
297571 TLTV
Clifhanger
Milestone
1872
-0.05
75
-0.12
52
127
97
482 300
126 106 106
109
114
102
Carm ano
915758 TLTV
Cadon
Lay Out
999
-0.09
35
-0.02
32
110
94
107 94
111 104 122
126
129
108
Ruacana
926406 TLTV
Rubens
Lentini RF
1440
-0.25
39
0.03
51
122
91
86 69
124 114 121
127
133
99
Stabilo
922092 TLTV
Stadel
Laredo Red
1543
-0.01
64
-0.08
45
121
93
97 65
105 106 113
120
120
94
Cadisco
915576 TLTV
Cadon
Koerier
1263
0.18
69
-0.04
39
119
93
94 84
107 109 107
117
117
102
Ruleto
916920 TLTV
Rubens
Lightning
1318
0.01
56
0.04
48
123
84
54 49
102 115 121
118
125
99
Rubinrot
916475 TLTV
Rubens
Kom Leader
526
0.56
66
0.33
43
123
93
176 121
100 104 113
113
115
103
Faromir
596291 TLTV
Faber
Koerier
974
0.06
46
0.04
36
115
92
85 69
115 105 127
115
125
113
Laurel
925880 TLTV
Lay Out
Caveman
144
0.33
30
0.18
18
103
99
4748 2416
102
97 127
117
122
121
Lageno
596600 TLTV
Lightning
Power
977
0.15
54
-0.01
33
113
89
74 57
102 122 119
110
122
104
Fo rest
597057 TLTV
Faber
Laredo Red
896
-0.07
32
0.02
32
110
92
101 89
115 117 125
128
135
105
Lypoll P
916401 TLTV
Lyon-Red
Clifhanger
1605
-0.33
39
-0.24
33
111
93
138 121
106 112 116
124
126
101
Tiscali
926297 TLTV
Tribute
Tulip
1395
-0.45
21
-0.05
43
114
90
78 66
117 116 109
122
124
98
Rugny
916801 TLTV
Rubens
Laurel
624
0.32
52
0.26
42
119
92
103 88
97 108 106
113
112
93
new Kanzler
597108 TLTV
Komtur
Stoll
394
0.44
50
0.12
22
108
85
64 57
101 108 127
127
131
101
Ricobar
926240 TLTV
Rubens
Tulip
489
0.78
81
0.04
20
110
94
128 98
106 118 110
126
127
104
Caribic
921987 TLTV
Cared
Tulip
1182
-0.18
35
-0.01
39
114
94
237 99
110 107 113
121
122
101
Faber
912913 TLTV
Factor RF
Nick
907
0.04
42
0.07
36
114
99
49667 15762
128 101 104
118
117
99
Avanti
297505 TLTV
Flano ET
Leadman
508
0.04
24
0.06
22
104
99
14596 5528
107 132 133
110
131
100
Rustler
297224 TLTV
Laredo Red
Milestone
-74
0.58
39
0.02
-1
93
98
6636 3367
123 115 121
128
134
103
2009)
Daughter groups
Calving
presented at the recent Winter Shows
aAa
RZS RZN
RZG
128 133
147
***
213456
122 115
144
***
165234
91 113
140
***
243615
122 118
138
**
n.a.
102 124
137
***
351426
122 139
137
***
162543
99 107
135
**
513624
105 114
134
**
162534
139 130
134
**
243615
120 111
133
**
516342
103 118
132
**
612534
122 125
132
**
135246
105 107
132
**
153642
102 125
131
**
435261
109 108
131
**
315264
117 107
131
***
651423
129 127
130
*
453216
114 118
129
**
315264
127 102
129
**
132654
97 108
129
**
423165
113 127
128
***
n.a.
114 115
127
***
342156
107 121
127
**
n.a.
125 115
126
**
n.a.
114 113
126
**
243165
Ease
123 125
124
**
n.a.
116 114
124
**
162534
97
123
**
165243
109 106
123
**
n.a.
106 112
123
**
n.a.
102 105
122
**
351426
103 110
121
**
426135
111 109
121
**
132456
110 110
121
**
123456
114 105
120
**
432516
107 102
120
*
153642
112 103
119
**
621453
105 109
119
***
351426
118 112
118
*
243615
117 114
118
***
321456
132 120
117
***
162534
105 103
117
**
132564
102 107
114
**
132546
108 112
109
***
423156
120 108
138
***
n.a.
98 106
133
***
534126
116 107
132
***
564123
109 109
130
**
315
119 122
129
***
432516
101 106
129
**
246135
107 118
129
**
564123
120 113
127
**
432561
94
98 105
127
**
n.a.
104 106
127
**
435261
103 108
127
**
651423
113 118
123
***
156342
109 107
122
**
n.a.
95 105
122
**
465123
115 108
121
**
651432
117 107
121
**
321456
111 109
120
***
531462
107 106
120
**
n.a.
104 108
120
*
615423
106
96
118
**
321456
94 107
117
**
234156
88 106
112
*
231
98 103
104
**
213
Abbreviations:
HB-No. ........ Herdbook Number
MGS............ Maternal Grand Sire
Prot.............. Protein
RZM ............ Production Index
Rel.%............ Reliability
Dau ............ Daughters
Herds .......... Herds
Dairy C. ...... Dairy Character
F&L .............. Feet&Legs
RZE.............. Total Conformation Index
RZR.............. Daughter Fertility Index
RZS.............. Somatic Cell Count
.................. Index ( -1)
RZN ............ Longevity Index
RZG ............ Total Merit Index
Sudan daughtergroup at “Blickpunkt Rind” in Paaren
*
Calving ease:
Jannsen daughtergroup presentet at “WEU Konvent” in Oldenburg
* below average
** good
***easy
Janosch daughtergroup at “Blickpunkt Rind” in Paaren
Laurel daughters at “WEU Konvent” in Oldenburg
Jefferson daughtergroup at “Blickpunkt Rind” in Paaren
9
German Holsteins
continued from page 7
well represented by the big, wide daughters with lots of capacity and very good
udders at the EuroTier (RZS 129, RZN
127). The development of the Jocko son is
different. Ju nck er (+390 daug.) still ranks
Jefferson (Jocko Besne x Dombinator) daughter
“Jamila”
in the top-40 and improves for udder
health (RZS 109). J e f f e r s o n (+1063
daug.) has to face a serious drop in overall conformation, but still stands at RZE
123. Most daughters has Jann s en (1,622,
+1024). He goes up 3 points RZM and remains the best Jocko for conformation with
RZE 135, impressively underlined by his
daughters at the EuroTier. Nov ize has now
5,290 unspectacular but very durable
(RZN 125) and productive (RZM 120)
daughters. His semen is as well available
as sexed semen. Easy calving bull Am ador
doubled number of daughters to more
than 1,000 with slight decrease in production and conformation.
For the first time 2nd crop daughters
(+212) added heavily used Emerson son
Em il II. But it did not affect his figures at all
(RZM 124, RZE 121) and he even gained
in rank.
Most daughters behind Laudan has good
old Juote (27,500). His popularity bases
news
Red Holstein
The number of new bulls in the Red Holstein
toplist is limited, too. But with Pandora a
brand new bull takes the top position.
Pandora is a Paradox-son out of a Yava RCdaughter descending from the famous Adria
family with many positive bull e.g. Rubens Red
(read more about Pandora on the right page).
Despite +1,872kg milk, Pandora breeds
clearly positive fat percentages (+0.18%; RZM
137). The figures indicate that Pandora can
be used as easy calving bull.
The Marmax-son Malvoy is ranking stable in
the top-5. Jerudo (Jerom x Rudolph) cannot
keep his first very high production figures from
August (RZM 123, -3) with many additional
daughters, but he improves for udder health
immensely (RZS 116, +9).
Bravisi can enter the top-10 with 245 2nd
crop daughters and slight increases in all figures (RZM 127, RZE 114).
Some early new daughters has Cadisco, but
Jerudo (Jerom x Rudolph) daughter “Viola”
they hardly affect his proofs. The other much
used Cadon son, Carmano, didn’t add
daughters (RZE 129). The high newcomer
from August, Ruacana (Rubens Red x Lentini
RC), increases in reliability and overall conformation to RZE 133 and is in high demand
(RZM 122).
Emil II (Emerson x Esquimau) “Maike”, 2 La
on best conformation (RZE 127) but as
well the excellent handling of his daughters with very good milking speed (RZD
128) and temperament (MVH 120). 10
New
With Ruleto another Rubens Red son can enter the list. His dam is a Luxembourgian Lightning-daughter classified already in 2nd lactation VG 88 out of Rubens RC. Ruleto impresses with the combination of high conformation
(RZE 125) and production (RZM 123). He
breeds slightly positive in fat (+0.01%) and
protein (+0.04%). The linear confirms him as
an improver for frame, very good feet and
legs (121) and all udder traits.
Kanzler is the first high Komtur son. With Stoll
as MGS, he is a real product from the RSH
breeding program. Kanzler can clearly improve components (+0.45% F, +0.12% P; RZM
108) and conformation with RZE 131, (F&L
127, udder 127).
Stabilo is still the highest Stadel-son (RZM
121, RZE 120). From the Rubens Red sons Rubinrot (MGS Kom Leader) can clearly improve (RZM 123, +4) whereas Rugny (MGS Laurel) just drops (RZM 119). Ricobar remains the
highest Rubens Red for conformation (RZE
127; MGS Tulip). The Faber sons Faromir and
Forest are stable with high conformation figures (RZE 125 respectively RZE 135). The Lightning-son Lageno can gain one point in his
RZG to now 122 because of improved
udder health (RZS
109, +6). Lypoll P is
a good allround bull
with RZE 126, RZM
111 (+2) and positive
udder health (RZS
115). What makes
him unique is the polled gene. Tribute son
Tiscali can improve
his overall conformation (RZE 124) especially by higher figures for udder (122).
Caribic does not
change much with
237 daughters from the test in Germany and
Estonia (RZE 122).
The number of daughters is growing rapidly
for Laurel and with that figures for longevity
(RZN 118) and especially daughter fertility
(RZR 121). Despite different high sons good
old Faber with more than 15,000 daughters is
still in demand. Avanti remains the best conformation sire with 99% reliability (RZE 131)
but this position may be taken over by Rustler
with the next evaluations. With 542 German
daughters (internationally more than 5,000)
he stands at RZE 134 with 98% reliability.
German Holsteins
Cassano
328422 TLTV
(Champion x Convincer x Marconi x Aerostar)
aAa: 651423
Cassano belongs to the very best Champion sons worldwide because he
combines excellent conformation with very high production (1,831kg
milk, RZM 124) and faultless figures for all functional traits. He descends
from the famous Sweet family. The maternal pedigree behind Aerostar
via Cleitus and SWD Valiant leads to Swampy Hollow Elevation Sweet
Ex 92. So the SWD Valiant is a full sister to Broker. Cassano is a type
and strength transmitter. His daughters are extemely long, tall and wide
in the chest. Nevertheless the Cassano daughters have lots of harmony
and dairytype in the best sence of the word. Another highlight in Cassano’s profile is feet&legs. Despite the high production, the udders are
well attached with very strong ligament and wide and high rear udders.
Within the functional traits he shows the seldom combination of very low
cell count (RZS 117) with fast milking speed. Finally he can be used on
heifers. So the complete package makes him a sire of sons.
Rahn
news
88
100
112
124
Dairy Type (Index)
Body (Index)
Feet and legs (Index)
Udder (Index)
RZE (Index)
121
122
123
112
127
821429 TLTV
(Ramos x Prelude x Mellwood x Enhancer)
aAa: 135246
Rahn is the highest of only 20 early tested Ramos sons. He came up with
his first official figures already in April 2008. In the beginning it was not
yet clear wether his very high figures for the functional traits were just pedigree or true daughter deviations. Meanwhile his daughters are in the
2nd lactation and his figures went even up to now udder health RZS 125,
longevity RZN 125 and daughter fertility RZR 111. But like his father Ramos he has more. Within his overall conformation RZE 122 especially
feet and legs excell and udders are very solid with nice squared placed
teats. Rahn daughters are very correct with average size and capacity.
Rahn was tested as well in family farms as in very big commercial farms
and does a good job in all conditions. Average for direct calving ease
his daughters have excellent calving abilities. At a level of +1,220kg milk
Rahn daughters are very persistent and have good maturing rates. In
summary Rahn proves to be a real Ramos son!
Pandora
88
100
112
124
105
100
125
117
122
Dairy Type (Index)
Body (Index)
Feet and legs (Index)
Udder (Index)
RZE (Index)
916884 TLTV
(Paradox x Yava RC x Factor RC x Stollberg RC)
aAa: -
Pandora is a new exciting bull with a different pedigree and a tremendous production that brought him right at the top of the list. His cow family is well known. The 5th maternal grand dam e.g. is Triple Adria the
great grand dam of Rudi Red. Pandora is an exceptional production bull
combining +1,872kg milk with +0,18% fat and neutral protein (RZM
137). Despite the high production the linear for all udder traits is faultless. The average sized Pandora daughters can stand the high production very well (BCS 95) and have sound feet&legs. A highlight in Pandora’s figures is the excellent udder health (RZS 120). Calving ease and
calf vitality are above average and Pandora can be used on heifers.
88
Dairy Type (Index)
Body (Index)
Feet and legs (Index)
Udder (Index)
RZE (Index)
100
112
124
118
96
115
108
113
11
German Holsteins
news
Successful 2nd crop bulls
countries. His Interbull proof lists already
daughters in 8 other countries including
Within the extraordinary “99-ers” for reUSA and CAN. His sire Lukas (Leadman
liability the story of Gibor is special. Born
x Inspiration) was missed as a great sire
in August 1997 in France as son of Gibof sons outside Germany and Denmark
bon (Southwind x Starwar) out of Sunnyand so the high ranking Lukas sons Lanboy he came up with his official figures
celot and Laudan got international attenin 2002 ranking #8 due to high producdance at once. With the test daughters
tion. But with his pedigree he was not
What is the reason for this never known
Laudan ranked behind Lancelot, but tovery popular even though already that tisuccess of 99% reliability bulls? The basis
day Laudan ranks in the top-10 again
me he showed up with low cell count and
certainly are the changed breeding goals
and is by far leading. With RZN 139
good udders and feet&legs. But figures
in almost all Holstein countries leading to
Laudan is the highest bull for longevity in
were not that extreme like today (see tatotal merit indices closer related with
the list of active 2nd crop bulls. In the
ble). And one of
shadow of Laudan and Lancelot another
his most exciting
Lukas son was almost ignored by the inabilities – daughternational Holstein business, Leif. Leif
ter fertility RZR
(MGS Zack) is a real top allrounder and
119 – didn’t show
his figures are absolutely stable, meaup at all. His pedining he could compensate the yearly
gree index for
change of base and relatively became
daughter non-rebetter and better. Almost 6,000 daughtturn-rate was 87
ers e.g. make him rank #51 in the Ameand with his test
rican TPI toplist. Extremely strong and
daughters
he
durable cows with excellent udderhealth
could move up just
are the trademarks of Leif.
to 103. So mainly
The two oldest bulls in the list are Juote
commercial breeand Faber, both born in 1996. Both haders in the region
Gibor (Gibbon x Sunny Boy) daughtergroup at DHV-Show 2007
ve already many sons proven. From the
of owner RUW
30 Juote sons 18 were tested in Scandiused him. Impornavia where the Juror son and easy caltant international semen sales started two
overall economy and thus including the
ving bull because of his very good milyears ago when his 2nd crop daughters
functional traits up to 50%. Different than
king speed and calm temperament in
pushed him up to the real top and in Jafor production and overall conformation
combination with good udder health and
nuary 2009 finally to rank #1. Only one
the Holstein breed made in average no
daughter fertility is still popular. Different
other region used Gibor early, Scandinareal progress for the functional traits.
to Juote, Red Holstein star Faber today is
via. So 2/3 of the 758 foreign daughters
First these traits are often negatively corovertaken by several of his already 126
in his Interbull proofs are found here.
related to high production and second
proven sons. Currently Famos and FaroEven with an age of 12 years Gibor is
because of missing or low reliability promir are the highest domestic proven sons
very vital and an excellent semen produofs for younger bulls there was no strong
cer. There were
selection in the past. Daughter fertility is
only very few eara good example for that. But extraordily sons from Gibor
nary proofs for functional traits alone are
tested. Out of four
not sufficient to rank high. Still producwith official figution has the highest relative weight in
res Giseh (MGS
most total merit indices – like in RZG Bombay) at #55
and without high production figures no
has most potentibull can reach the top. So theoretically
al.
the top of the youngest bulls with outsThe most daughttanding production still have best chaners in his proofs
ces to overtake the sire generation. Thehas Laudan with
refore the best 2nd crop bulls are some30,214 (see tathing special and give the opportunity to
ble). Right from
fulfil a breeding dream: maximum prohis start he was
gress with minimum risk!
used in many Laudan (Lukas x Raider) daughter “All White” (FRA)
It seems that it is currently the time of
great 2nd crop bulls. A symbol became
O-Man who dominated the US TPI list as
2nd crop bull and still ranks 4th behind
two other 2nd crop bulls. The newest 2nd
crop wonders are Shottle and Gibor.
12
Fist time on top
German Holsteins
and Huiben Allegro the highest from 27 in
the Netherlands.
Mtoto and Jocko Besne
Mtoto was heavily used as an international sire of sons, but the best sons showed
up in Germany. Mascol is by far the highest ranking at #2 in Germany with his
proof for the first time including more than
1,000 daughters. He has daughters in
milk already in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and USA where he proved his high
production and component transmission,
very good udders (USA +1.32 udder) and
low cell count, too. Most daughters so far
have Manager and Merinit with 8,636 respectively 6,118 daughters in many countries. They have the same RZG, but diffe-
Mascol (Mtoto x Rudolph) daughter “Claudia 4” (NL)
rent breeding pattern. Manager is a udderhealth and longevity specialist (MGS
Rudolph). International users are especially satisfied with the very uniform and good
conformation. Merinit (MGS Geoffry) is
an allrounder with much milk (+1538kg).
One of the best Mtoto sons was clearly underestimated with his daughters from the
test period, Millennium (international name Pearson). Descending from a French
Luke daughter he sets new limits for low
cell count (RZS 139) in combination with
+3 standard deviations for overall conformation! Despite he is positive for CVM he
is used heavily once again. Luckily he is
still alive.
The most recent story of success is written
by the Jocko sons. Like with Mtoto Ger-
news
many tested by far
the most Jocko
sons resulting in
some outstanding
top bulls. The first
Jocko son with official figures was
Jannsen. In his January proofs the
descendant of the
Blackstar dam ToMar Wayne Hay
has 1,622 daughters enhancing his
overall conformation to 141. The Laurel (Lay Out x Caveman) daughter “Limone”
other Jocko son
with already more than 1,000 daughters Red Holstein
is Jefferson, but Good old Faber with almost 50,000
most of them still ha- daughters and several active sons was alve short records in ready mentioned. Avanti meanwhile has
progress. He combi- more than 14,000 daughters and many
nes high production more are added with every new run. If one
(RZM 123) with is looking for stature, strength and capacigood conformation ty the Flano son is still the number one (RZE
(RZE 123). Many 131). Protecting for foreudder he can sire
more daughters in show winners. The same is true for Rustler
Germany and abro- with even higher overall conformation (RZE
ad will be added in 134). He was co-tested in Switzerland and
the next evaluation most of his 2nd crop daughters are regiruns.
stered there. The highest ranking 2nd crop
Amador is often for- Red Holstein with 99% reliability is Laurel.
gotten talking about His RZG of 123 is based on daughters with
2nd crop bulls, but extremely good fertility, feet&legs, udders,
the easy calving Aa- longevity and udderhealth.
ron son with high production (+1,745kg) Seventeen active bulls with at least 98%
and solid conformation figures (F&L 118) reliability offer unique possibilities for gehas still friends.
netic herd improvement on highest level
with minimum risk. Table: 2nd Crop bulls ranked by numbr of daughters
Name
Laudan
J u ot e
Gibor
Manager ET
Merinit
Le if
Nov ize
Millennium
Jannse n
J e f f e r s on
Amado r
Mas co l ET
Faber
Avanti
Rus tler
Num
810695
504296
667908
840463
821153
801705
325517
821119
821197
810833
840503
840515
912913
297505
297224
Laurel
925880 Lay Out
Sire
Lukas
Juror
Gibbon
Mtoto
Mtoto
Lukas
Novalis
Mtoto
Jocko Besn
Jocko Besn
Aaron
Mtoto
Factor RF
Flano ET
Laredo Red
MGS
Daug. total foreign daug. Rel. % RZM RZE RZS RZN
Raider
30214
2450
99
114 117 122 139
Cleitus
27351
3009
99
94 127 108 112
Sunnyboy
10463
758
99
123 120 128 133
Rudolph
8636
1480
99
99 124 132 120
Geoffry
6118
1280
99
115 113 105 103
Zack
5958
145
99
112 117 129 127
Jabot
5290
683
99
120 114 102 125
Luke
2165
0
99
111 135 139 130
Mandel
1622
0
99
113 135 102 105
Dombinator
1261
0
99
123 123 94
97
Esquimau
1177
0
99
116 110 105 109
Rudolph
1024
264
98
134 120 122 115
Nick
49667
17378
99
114 117 94 107
Leadman
14596
2589
99
104 131 88 106
Milestone
6636
6094
98
93 134 98 103
RZR
107
109
119
100
93
115
96
94
98
100
92
107
99
100
103
RZG
137
109
147
117
117
130
131
134
122
123
119
144
117
112
104
Caveman
121
123
4748
631
99
103 122 113
118
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German Holsteins
news
Growing breeding sucess in Balkan states with German bulls
Photo: A. Maksic
If I look back to the year 2004 when the
first contact with GGI was achieved, I see
that a lot has been done on spreading
German breeding philosophy through
the south European Balkan states since
then.
Working as a manager of four dairy and
heifer growing farms for three years I
was deeply involved in farming and breeding on a large scale industrial basis.
Several big dairy systems like PIK Becej,
Carnex Vrbas and PKB Belgrade were
the heart of cattle breeding in Serbia. Especially Holstein breeding was traditionally located in the northern parts of the
Modern management is widening out
country suitable for Alfalfa, corn and soy
growing.
As a trainee on big Holstein farms I have
passed through all positions within farm
operations. One attracted me the most –
genetics and reproduction. It was very
often that we had up to 200 heifers ready for first insemination and more than
40 calvings per day. It provided me a
unique perspective on weakness of large
scale dairy operations. Fertility and longevity have been words we used a lot to
describe the major obstacles during the
morning briefs in the office. Thriving for
bigger milk production we slowly started
to loose a battle with fertility problems
and short herd life. From my point of
14
view the solution was partially laid in the
introduction of new blood lines and so I
started to search more deeply for a genetic source that will balance our breeding. While visiting the German Hall, at
the agriculture fair in Novi Sad, I have
found the address of German Genetics
International at the DHV booth. That’s
how all started. After contacting GGI, I
was invited to an intensive educational
program conducted by GGI to learn more about the German breeding philosophy.
Today GGI is present at most of the small
and big family farms with milk production in the Balkan region. Healthy, easy
handling and vibrant heifers and cows
sired by GGI bulls are very common to
find in barns from Slovenia, through
Croatia and Bosnia up to Serbia.
Farmers in every country have a wide
selection of German bulls through the
distribution network of the GGI Partners,
AI Stud Krnjaca in Serbia founded in
1951, CUS Center from Osijek in Croatia, Intervet from Bijeljina in Bosnia and
the newly founded Center Bikovega Semena from Slovenia, owned by GPZ on
their disposal.
Sl ov enia
From 2005 German Genetics International is present at the Slovenian AI market
through a very succesfull partnership
and cooperation with GPZ z.o.o. Govedorejsko Poslovno Zdruzenje is a Slovenian breeding organization of bovine
species. GPZ was established in 2003 by
the national breeding organizations.
Simmental, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Limousine, Charolais and Cika are provided by GPZ. Since 2005 GPZ gained the
status of a recognized breeding organization.
Croatia
With the large and rich cropland region
like Slavonia, Croatia is blessed for dairy
operations and was very active in the
first days of the Holstein popularization.
GGI Partner and distributor for the Croatian market is AI Center Osijek (CUSH).
Located in Slavonia AI Center Osijek
supplies most of the biggest Holstein
farms in Croatia and was very famous in
Holstein breeding in former Yugoslavia.
The main customers of GGI semen are
larger holstein farms located in the crop
region of Croatia. We still receive a positive feedback from the big operations
(over 1000 cows in milk) who experienced easy calving and excellent feet and
legs improvement by using the bulls from
GGI.
Serbia
First AI Center “Centar za Vestacko Osemenjavanje Krnjaca” was founded in
1951 and still today holds a major market share in Serbia. Since November
2004 AI-center Krnjaca is the partner
and distributor of GGI-products for the
Serbian market. The semen of the German bulls was warmly accepted by the
top Serbian farms when GGI started in
Serbia. Despite the very harsh competition on the Serbian market GGI bulls fitted
Photo: M. Hempe
Aleksandar Maksic, GGI representative
in the Balkan countries, reports on his
way to GGI and gives a brief overview
about breeding in the Balkan countries.
Solid built cow stable
well in the current fitness era of breeding.
High conception rates, outstanding feet
and legs and udder quality were recognized at all dairy operations.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
From the beginning of this year GGI and
Intervet Biljeljina started a cooperation
and partnership. Being a partner of the
AI-stud Krnjaca from Serbia, Intervet
was naturally alluded to GGI as the supplier of German bulls beside the domestic bred bulls from Serbia.
Dawn on the Balkan: Growing sucess in Holsteins breeding
German Holsteins
news
More than 500,000 semen doses of Laudan delivered
On October 11th, 2008 Laudan – classified VG 89 – turned ten years old.
Since many years Laudan belongs to the
most heavily used bulls in Germany and
the international demand is still very
high.
Laudan offers an international top class
pedigree with Lukas x Raider x Blackstar
x Bell x M.E. Tony and sires traits like
high production, good udder health,
fitness and longevity.
His stylish daughters have an average
frame and develop quite well. Highlights
are the dry feet & legs as well as the
high and firmly attached udders. The numerous daughters from the second crop
all over the world totally confirm this im-
pression. Also the first international Laudan heifers excite quite much.
On July 15th, 2008 the mark of
500,000 delivered doses of the top class
bull Laudan has been exceeded.
EVENTS
7th February
„Hessens Zukunft 2009“, Alsfeld
Zucht- und Besamungsunion Hessen e.G. (ZBH)
11th March
Show „Excellent-Schau“, Leer
Verein Ostfriesischer Stammviehzüchter eG (VOSt)
18th March
Show „Rind aktuell“, Hannover
Rinderzucht Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH (RMV)
Laudan
17th - 18th June
„German Holstein Show“, Oldenburg
Deutscher Holstein Verband e.V. (DHV)
Jardin-dam Dea passed 100,000 kg lifetime production
The Jardin-dam Dea (MF Tonic) has reached a lifetime
production
of
100,000 kg milk.
She is from the famous German breeder Grünefeld in
Backemoor. 3.85%
protein makes her
one of the best cows in this trait. She
also passed on
these extraordinary protein percentages to Jardin,
showing +1,500kg
Jardin mother “Dea”
of milk and +0.21% protein.
Rinder-Union-West e.G. (RUW)
19th November
Show "Blickpunkt Rind", Paaren
Rinderproduktion Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (RBB)
23rd November
Elite Auktion, Hamm
Deutscher Holstein Verband e.V. (DHV)
11th December
Show "Nikolausschau", Bismark
Rinderzuchtverband Sachsen Anhalt e.G. (RSA)
Belt daughter proves longevity
of German Holsteins
Novize daughter wins in
Denmark
Salina VG 89 already has 13 calves and
a current lifetime production of 132,216
kg milk with 5,304 kg fat and 4,293 kg
protein. She is owned by Karsten Kaak
from Ratzbek.
At the Danish Nationalshow in Herning in
June 2008, “H Novize” won in the class
of cows with two and three calvings. She
produced over 10,000 kg milk in 346
days and was classified VG 88.
“Salina” (s. Belt)
22nd October
Show „RUW-Schau“, Hamm
German Version
available as
PDF
www.ggi.de
“H Novize”, 2 La
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Snapshots ‘Day of the Newcomer’ 2008
The busy helpers at the
briefing-breakfast in the
morning
shoot - make-up please!
The diva prior to her foto
Break for everyone!
sees it
...and that’s how the cow
Also necessary on fairs
- milking
...Drop-off while bullridi
ng: viewer perspective
...and everybody took something home...
Important: Feet&Legs
Snapshots ‘EuroTier’ 2008
Many daughtergroups....
Chill out...
Pro in front of
the camera
too.
...and behind the cam,
...many transmitters.
...with a cup of ‘water’.