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April 7, 2023 Only a few hours left before the Online Easter Heifer Sale 2023 starts. Tonight at 06.00 p.m. (Dutch Time) starts the sale till Friday April the 14th 09.00 p.m. (Dutch Time). The second part with pictures and videos from the sale heifers at the Easter Heifer Sale are ONLINE available now at Eurogenes! Take a seat and look at this stunning calves, heifers and cows! This sale offers the very best heifers, fresh cows and embryos from amazing families cows like Miss Apple Snapple-Red EX-96-USA, New Moore Esmeralda 38 EX-93-NL, DH Gold Chip Darling EX-96-CH, Meadow Green Abso Fanny-Red EX-96-USA, KHW Regiment Apple-Red EX-96-USA, Wesswood-HC Rudy Missy EX-92-USA, Snowbiz Sympatico Sofia-Red VG-85-USA 2yr., Ridgedale Fond Example EX-95-USA 3E GMD, HC Archrival Arianne VG-89-NL 4yr. (MAX), Strans-Jen-D Tequila-Red EX-96-USA and many more. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 6, 2023 Eurogenes is definetely the place to be and stay tuned about the latest index releases in Europe and World Wide. Today we like to introduce you the top GTPI / NM$ and PTAT calves, heifers and cows in Europe based on the American GTPI index. This new April 2023 index brings us a new #1 GTPI in Europe, with a Captain offspring from The Netherlands breaking over the +3200 GTPI with +3229 GTPI for DG Ceylin (A2A2). She is in this Top 50 the only female with >3200 GTPI in unique combination with >2.00 PTAT. She is out of BG Zazzle C Carlin K and shows us an amazing profile with +1730kgM, +0.18% Fat, +0.06% Protein, 1.9% SCE, +2.01 PTAT, +2.06 UDC and Sloped and Wide Rumps. She is followed by a Benefit daughter from the UK at +3174 GTPI and making the Top 3 complete with an AltaAlanzo daughter at +3171 GTPI from Cogent UK. Further more at the 7th spot and 9th spot we find the full sisters to DG Ceylin, DG Caja at +3127 GTPI and DG Ceyda at +3122 GTPI.  Click further for more rankings.   Read More

April 6, 2023 The first SALE UPDATE of the Eurogenes EASTER Heifer Sale 2023 is now ONLINE available for you. This SALE UPDATE includes also contracts on the lots selling in the Easter Heifer Sale. The auction will start tomorrow at 6:00 P.M. (Dutch-time) and can be attended through the easterheifersale.com. More info can be requested through the sale organisation. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 6, 2023 Last tuesday came the new US-index ONLINE available at Eurogenes. Leader in the Top *RC GTPI index is Bomaz Cola *RC at +3085 GTPI in combination with +1.82 PTAT and +2.26 UDC! He is followed by the former #1 *RC GTPI sire Stgen RC Redlea *RC at +3065 GTPI. Making the Top 3 complete with newcomer DG Absolve *RC at +3047 GTPI. He is a Captain son out of Trent-Way-JS Ronald daughter DG OH Audrey. He shows a balanced profile with +3047 GTPI in combination with +1.58 PTAT and +985 NM$. Also his milkproduction traits, health traits and type traits are worth mentioning, he has +1554kgM with +0.13% Fat and +0.04% Protein, +1.4 DPR, 2.86 SCS, +0.09 Mastitis, 1.7% Sire Calving Ease, Sloped and Wide Rumps and +1.14 FLC. Furthermore at the 8th spot we find S.J.K Foundation *RC at +2983 GTPI. He is a Captain son out of Avance-Red daughter Primeval 5121. She is also dam to S.J.K. Pele-Red (s. Star P) at +2850 GTPI. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 5, 2023 The Dutch gNVI indexes are now ONLINE available. There are some changes, normally there is a basic adjustment every five years, from now it's once a year. All the bulls decrease this turn in their Dutch index 69 NVI points and the red-and-white bulls -331kgM and the black-and-white bulls -289kgM. Caudumer Solitair P Red is the nr. 1 NVI Red&White Daughter Proven Sire in the Netherlands this run at +249 gNVI! He is followed by COL DG Spark-Red at +243 gNVI. The Mr. Salvatore *RC son has a huge production index with +2362kgM! At the third place we find Hoogerhorst DG OH Rubels-Red at +240 gNVI! He shows a balanced profile with 376 daughter in his index and +1545kgM with +0.17% Fat and +0.01% Protein and +114 Udders!!! The Nr. 1 R&W gNVI sire in the Daughter Proven Interbull list is Zoom-Red at +259 NVI. He is followed by Rhala Re Blues-Red @Ai-Total at +245 NVI and making the Top 3 complete with Barendonk Ronaldo at +210 gNVI. In the R&W gNVI Genomic sire list we find DV DG Rammstein-Red @Ai-Total at the 7th spot at +331 gNVI. The Nr. 1 in this ranking is Delta Primetime PP Red at +354 gNVI. Click further for more.   Read More

April 5, 2023 COUNTDOWN to the Online Easter Heifer Sale 2023 which will start this Friday, April the 7th 2023 at 06.00 p.m. (Dutch Time) till Friday April the 14th 09.00 p.m. (Dutch Time). The first part with pictures from the sale heifers at the Easter Heifer Sale are ONLINE available now at Eurogenes! Take a seat and look at this stunning calves, heifers and cows! This sale offers the very best heifers, fresh cows and embryos from amazing families cows like Miss Apple Snapple-Red EX-96-USA, New Moore Esmeralda 38 EX-93-NL, DH Gold Chip Darling EX-96-CH, Meadow Green Abso Fanny-Red EX-96-USA, KHW Regiment Apple-Red EX-96-USA, Wesswood-HC Rudy Missy EX-92-USA, Snowbiz Sympatico Sofia-Red VG-85-USA 2yr., Ridgedale Fond Example EX-95-USA 3E GMD, HC Archrival Arianne VG-89-NL 4yr. (MAX), Strans-Jen-D Tequila-Red EX-96-USA and many more. Click further to see the first pictures and videos.   Read More

April 4, 2023 Again a tremendous April 2023 index run for Genosource Captain! With 208 daughters in his index, he is still the #1 International GTPI Sire this proof at +3243 GTPI, that is +29 GTPI points more than in the December '22 proof! He increased his production traits to +2238kgM with +0.17% Fat and +0.03% Protein, +1258 NM$, +0.2 DPR, 1.5% SCE, +1.46 PTAT with +1.46 UDC. He is followed by Mr T-Spruce Frazz Lionel at +3169 GTPI. He scores in his US-index: +3588kgM with +0.07% Fat, +1295 NM$ and 2.3% SCE. Making the top 3 complete with newcomer Siemers Rengd Parfect at +3066 GTPI in combination with +2.71 PTAT! He has now 74 daughters in his index with +1030kgM, positive components, 2.4% Sire Calving Ease, +0.3 DPR and +2.33 UDC. At the 11th spot we find Hurtgenlea Richard Charl at +2968 GTPI. He added 235 daughter this run to his index, that makes 1257 daughters in his index. He has an amazing profile with +1980kgM with +0.13% Protein, +0.1 DPR, +2.86 SCS, 1.5% SCE and sloped rumps. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 4, 2023 The new indexes from Canada just came in! Also in the Canadian Index are some changes. The Holstein sires will loose 111kgM and 0.71 (or almost 1 point) of Conformation.The #1 LPI Mace Daughter Proven sire of the April '23 index run is Genosource Captain at +3840 LPI! He has a shared 1st spot with his sons Genosource John and Genosource Jack. They are followed by S-S-I BG Festivs Sertoli at +3667 LPI and making the stage complete with SH Gigabyte at +3639 LPI. At the 11th spot we find OH DG Topstone at +3580 LPI and at the 25th spot we find RR Ghibili, bred by Zuchtbetrieb Reinermann, at +3525 LPI. There are 3 bulls at +17 Conformation who are topping the Top Conformation genomic index: 84288, Blondin Crossover and HAH Noel Predator. The #1 Conformation Daughter Proven sire is again Walnutlawn Sidekick at +15 Conformation, he has a shared first spot with Brabantdale Alongside, Blondin J Crown Royal and Golden-Oaks Master. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 4, 2023 The indexes of Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland) are ONLINE available now!! The highest NTM genomic sire this April 2023 proof is again the Danish bull VH Newyear at still +43 NTM. He has a shared first spot with VH Shuba P at also +43 NTM. At the 2nd spot we find newcomer and Captain son DG Space at +42 NTM. Topping the daughter proven NTM list is VH Deco *RC at +33 NTM. On the second spot we find France sire Nuberon at +32 NTM and at the 3rd spot we find VH Lilling at +31 NTM. Click further for more info.   Read More

April 4, 2023 The German indexes just came in! New this year in the German index is the trait: RZPersistence. This additional breeding value persistence is intended to support day-to-day selection decisions by indicating the ability of the animals to maintain milk production for as long as possible. This breeding value is particularly interesting for farmers who want to consciously extend the lactation. In average all the bulls with a German index drop 5 points in RZG. A solide April 2023 index run for OH DG Topstone, he is still the #1 B&W daughter proven sire at +156 RZG and +113 RZE. He is followed by Superhero son Super Uno at +152 RZG and making the stage complete with Suprem at +149 RZG. Also a solide proof for Veelhorst DG Casino at the 5th spot at +148 RZG with 4332 daughters at 1046 different farms in his index . The Nr. 1 R&W Daughter Proven sire is Aperol P at +145 RZG, followed by Solitair P at +143 RZG and the #3 daughter proven R&W RZG sire is Snickers P at +141 RZG. Furthermore we find at a shared 6th place COL DG Spark-Red at +138 RZG, followed by NH Solito-Red at +137 RZG. Click further for more info.   Read More