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66 ttiimmeess 110000,,000000 lliittrreess:: Heimat EX 90, Idea VG 86, Paula VG 87, Ines VG 87, Hofdame VG 86, Illana VG 87 Photo: Christine Massfeller 

Successful Holstein Events show Top of the Breed 

Bulls such as Gibor, Laudan, Leif and Mascol 

have set a trend in Holstein breeding, but the 

perfect mix of high will to milk, excellent fitness 

traits and good conformation have been 

rooted in German Holstein breeding for many 

years as is shown by this group of 6 cows on 

the farm of family Kleemann from northern 

Germany, East Friesland. All of them are classified 

VG or EX and have passed the magical 

total of 100 tons, and are still in the best of 

health. Further proof that RZG produces cows 

with outstanding conformation as well as vital 

and highly efficient animals was demonstrated 

at the shows at the end of 2011/beginning 

of 2012. 

The show season started with the show 

“Blickpunkt Rind 2011“ in Brandenburg. 

Around 100 animals competed for the grand 

champion title which was given in the end to 

the very harmonic SL Jazzdance. Another highlight 

of this show was the presentation of the 

daughter group of the outcross sire Eminem. 

His second crop daughters really impressed 

and scored particularly for their uniformity 

and outstanding udders. His daughter Emely 

was awarded best cow of the progeny. 

At the beginning of December, lots of interested 

breeders met at the show “Nikolausschau 

2011“. Overall winner of this exciting competition 

was the well-known show cow and dam of 

the newcomer Mad Max: RH Maxima EX 94. A 

group of the outcross sire Cecon was shown. 

As well as lots of harmony and real elegance, 

MMaadd MMaaxx dam RH Maxima EX 94 

the high udder quality of these animals with 

lots of development potential should be 

praised. 

At the “HighlightSALE 2012“, the first daughter 

group of the Red Holstein newcomer 

Selayo was presented. Daughters of this outcross 

sire underline this bull’s qualities. The 

animals shown were juvenile with lots of 

frame, very good feet & legs and top-class 

udders. 

This year’s “WEU-Konvent 2012“ once again 

had a group from Marbach. Besides the grand 

champion, LOH Nastygirl, he had other top 

animals at the show. Another very famous bull 

whose second crop daughters impressed was 

Cassano. His daughter group enthralled with 

frame and strength. For feet & legs and udder 

transmission, Cassano leaves nothing to be 

desired. As newcomer, daughters of the production 

sire Biarritz were shown. His daughters 

had enormous will to milk and convinced 

in every way. 

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Continued: Successful Holstein Events show Top of the Breed 

At the show “Neumünster am Abend“, not 

only the best Holsteins competed against 

each other, but also animals of the Angler and 

Red Holstein dual purpose breeds. In total, 8 

sires were represented by daughter groups: 

the all-rounders Terbium, Labiate and Sesterz, 

the conformation specialists Brigade and 

Zabing RC as well as the Red Holstein sires 

Faromir and Litera. Another group that 

impressed was the daughter group of the 

Angler superstar Haithabu. 

With such high quality in the progeny groups, 

it was hard for the judges to select the champion 

animal, but the Terbium daughter Kosta 

was the winner at the end. 

At “Hessens Zukunft 2012“, for the first time, 

a Jersey cow, Kendra, won a regional show. A 

further highlight was the daughter group of 

the top selling genomic bull Goldday. This 

group impressed in every way with lots of 

capacity and strength. Shottmar also showed 

a group of functional cows with good udders 

and excellent feet & legs. The show 

“Excellent-Schau 2012“ became a celebration 

of German genetics. Numerous daughters of 

German bulls triumphed in the different age 

classes. Alliance established his good reputa- 

EVENTS 2012 

14 th August 

"Breeding value estimation 

August 2012" 

10 th October 

“Blickpunkt Rind”, Paaren 

Rinderzucht Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (RBB) 

13 th - 16 th November 

"EuroTier 2012", Hannover 

Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. (DLG) 

26 th November 

"Elite-Auktion 2012", Hamm 

Deutscher Holstein Verband e.V. (DHV) 

4 th December 

"Breeding value estimation 

December 2012" 

6 th December 

"Nikolausschau", Bismark 

Rinderzuchtverband Sachsen-Anhalt eG (RSA) 

German version 

available as PDF: 

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tion as the No. 1 conformation sire with several 

very good daughters. Two more recent sires 

were shown: Ronin (s. Roumare) and Bokito 

(s. Bolton). They breed functional, highly efficient 

cows with correct feet & legs and 

udders. 

At the annual heifer show “Färsen-Schau” in 

Bitburg, Carmano proved his domination of 

Red Holstein breeding. His daughters filled 

the top places in the Red Holstein classes over 

and over again. A group of the newcomer 

Selayo, co-tested in Canada, was shown once 

again. 

At the show “Rind Aktuell 2012“, Gunnar 

daughter Grandiose celebrated a highly 

acclaimed victory. Grandiose succeeded 

against very strong competition. The progeny 

shown impressed as well. Strobel and Zar 

showed exactly what breeders expect from 

these well-known proven bulls. In addition, 

daughters of the bull Brigade were presented 

and really excelled and scored with their uniformity. 

As newcomer, a daughter group of 

the bull NOG Mato was shown. The functionality 

and correctness of the juvenile animals 

should be praised here, too. 

Daughters of our bulls win, not only in 

Gibor and Laudan passed away 

Gibor and Laudan set new standards in 

Holstein breeding history. After a phenomenal 

career as outstanding fitness sires 

Laudan and Gibor passed away. 

These two bulls are milestones in German 

breeding history due to their extremely good 

breeding values for longevity, udder health, 

daughter fertility and feet & legs and all this 

combined with outstanding milk production 

““MMrr FFiittnneessss““:: GGiibboorr 

transmission. Despite the remarkable age of 

14 and 15 years they are still able to provide 

progress in breeding for vitality and function- 

GGuunnnnaarr daughter Grandiose 

Germany, but, as well Joyboy daughter 

Highjoy, Carmano daughter Zamara and Eleve 

daughter Joella triumphed in Austria. The 

most beautiful cow in Estonia is the Faber 

daughter Lindi and Jefferson daughters dominate 

in Slovenia with record production and 

good conformation. Daughters of Jeff and 

Jardin had wins in the Netherlands and 

Alliance is a guarantor of good placings in 

Italy. 

Further progeny reports can be obtained on 

the new page “progeny” at www.ggi.de 

ality and they are still topseller. 

Gibor could make it into the Top-15 of the 

most frequently used bulls in Germany in 

2011, after a career of 10 years. Now he has 

more than 30,000 daughters all over the 

world. 

OOuuttssttaannddiinngg ssuucccceessss:: LLaauuddaann 

Laudan was honored in the years 2004 and 

2005 at the height of his career as most popular 

bull in Germany and could rank among 

the Top-10 in the following years. He has 

more than 65,000 daughters worldwide and 

a lot of highly tested sons. 

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Goldday 635357 

(Goldwyn x O-Man x Durham x Luke) 

He passed the test! The highest genomic tested Goldwyn son from 

his year of birth has proved his excellent abilities as a sire with his first daughter 

proven breeding values. This bull, that is strong for conformation, shows 

really outstanding values of more than 120 for the individual traits, thus confirming 

his linear which has no weaknesses. His impressive daughters presented 

themselves as a very uniform group at the show “Hessens Zukunft 

2012”. They were of a desired dairy type with lots of harmony. Goldday’s 

daughters move on solid feet & legs and have good locomotion. Udder transmission 

is just as every breeder wishes it to be. Fore udder attachment is optimal, 

teats are placed well below the udder quarters and the suspensory ligament 

is very strong. With positive protein transmission, more than 1,100 kg 

milk and an above average RZS of 114, it is obvious why this bull is already 

used intensively as a sire of sons. His fitness values of RZN 127 and RZR 115 

are remarkable for such a young bull. Goldday leaves nothing to be desired 

and he can be recommended for use on heifers. 

Selayo 917153 

TLTVTY 

aAa 234 

(Elayo x Goldwyn x Durham x Formation) 


April Proof Run of GGI Top daughter proven Sires 

Shift of base 

the Top-10. This once again proves the RZG’s 

advance as 

RZM RZS RZE RZN RZR RZG Dairy type Body F&L Udder RZD the basis for 

Holstein -0.5 0.7 -2.5 -1.5 0.1 -1.7 -0.5 -1.6 -1.4 -2.2 -1.1 selection. 

So the quartet 

Red Holstein -1.4 -0.4 -4.2 1.1 -0.8 -2.4 -1.5 -2.2 -2.0 -4.0 -1.7 

of Mascol and 

Daughter proven GGI sires 

his sons Malix, Mavid and the newcomer 

NOG Mato especially impress with high pro- 

Despite the annual shift of base, our bulls duction transmission and excellent compo- 

have impressively confirmed their high breenents, as well as very high fitness values. 

ding values. The list is led by the fitness spe- Another highly interesting newcomer is 

cialist Guarini who is strong for production. It Goldday. This Goldwyn son, out of the heart 

is precisely these attributes which allow this of the Blackstar Raven EX 95 dynasty, has 

excellent heifer bull to become so popular clearly come up to the expectations of his 

and this can also be seen in the other bulls in high genomic breeding values with his first 

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Selayo successfully confirmed, with his daughters in Germany 

and Canada, the promise of his figures of his genomic breeding value estimation. 

The Elayo son out of the Glen Drummond Splendor family really 

impressed with his progeny group at the “HighlightSALE 2012”. This group’s 

uniformity underlines the strengths of this young all-rounder. His tall, dairy 

daughters have clean feet & legs and show very good locomotion. Rumps are 

perfectly sloped and are of sufficient width in order to achieve very good 

breeding values for maternal and paternal calving ease. Top class udders with 

a very strong suspensory ligament and excellent rear udders complete the 

outstanding transmission of this promising newcomer. With excellent functional 

traits, Selayo’s daughters promise to be healthy and long lasting cows. 

Milk production of more than +1,000 kg, with positive protein transmission 

make this bull a great all-rounder. He has a completely outcross pedigree in 

Red Holstein breeding with Elayo x VG 87 Goldwyn x VG 87 Durham. 

Dairy Character (Index) 

Body (Index) 

Feet and legs (Index) 

Udder (Index) 

RZE (Index) 


Body (Index) 


Udder (Index) 

RZE (Index) 

daughters. 

Tableau is still the bull of the Red Holsteins. 

There are other familiar bulls at the top of the 

list with this popular heifer bull. Despite the 

shift of base, bulls like Jerudo, La Crosse, 

Carmano and Taurus have still proved 

impressive. Besides the production sires 

Cojack and Calvin, the most interesting newcomer 

is Selayo. He is only listed unofficially, 

but his daughters (45 DEU + 54 CAN) convince 

overall, and, due to his excellent fitness 

values, Selayo will find lots of friends. 

Further information can be obtained at 

www.ggi.de. For detailed figures please take 

a look at the table on the right hand side. 

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As with the daughter proven sires, the top list 

of the genomic bulls is also characterized by 

the variety of pedigrees. There are eight different 

sires and seven different 

dam’s sires in the Top-10. 

Borussia BY is a unique bull at the 

top. His pedigree combines a rarely 

used sire and a very solid, but not 

often used dam line so far. Besides 

his outstanding fitness breeding 

values, Borussia catapults his extremely high 

production and components transmission to 

the highest gRZG ever: 161. 

Furthermore, it is good news that our older G- 

Snowflake 678530 

Mad Max 822470 

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April Proof Run of GGI Top Genomic Sires 

Genomic bulls confirm their breeding power 

too through their first sons as well as their 

first daughters. So Bilstein BY can underline 

the qualities of Billiard and Great Day proves 

the outstanding potential of Goldday. 

Among the Red Holsteins, Cold Boy still leads 

the list. He is out of an O-Man dam. The new 

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(Snowman x Goldwyn x Outside x Lee) 

The first sons of the leader of the Interbull list, Snowman, are 

coming. A very special young sire has entered service: Snowflake. His dam 

is the Goldwyn daughter Kansas who became famous for her many highly 

predispositioned genomic tested progeny and is one of the most popular 

bull dams in Europe at the moment. Snowflake’s granddam is no less than 

All-European Championship winner 2006: Outside Kora EX 93. His RZE of 

131 with excellent breeding values for the single traits and a balanced linear 

are hardly surprising. His breeding values promise framy, dairy cows 

with excellent feet & legs and good locomotion. The firmly and highly 

attached udders, in combination with a strong suspensory ligament and 

somewhat longer teats are exactly what every breeder wants. RZM of 138 

with +2,138 kg milk and his above average fitness values speak for themselves. 

With RZN 124, owners will enjoy his productive daughters for a long 

time. 

TLTVTY 

aAa 123465 

Mad Max (Destry x Talent 2) will create interest among Red 

Holstein breeders. His dam is the most successful Red cow in Germany at 

the moment: RH Maxima EX 94. This cow became famous with wins at lots 

of national shows and also passed the test internationally. The conformation 

qualities of this exceptional cow can be seen in the complete transmission 

profile of her son Mad Max. He is one of the top conformation 

sires, with an RZE of 134, of the Red Holstein G-Genomic bulls. Udders are 

the highlight of the framy Mad Max daughters. With a breeding value of 

130, with highly and firmly attached udders and very good teat placement 

as well as a strong suspensory ligament, this should result in excellent 

udders. Furthermore, they have clean feet and legs with optimal angle. The 

transmission quality of Mad Max is completed by very good production 

transmission of more than +1,100 kg milk with positive protein percentages. 

The bull also attracts particular interest for his good udder health 

and longevity so that Mad Max can be really recommended for widespread 

use. 


Body (Index) 


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Tableau sons, Tabit and Tallboy, attract special 

attention as well, showing the same 

transmission profile as their sire. The same is 

true for Desk, Don Juan and Julandy to 

name but a few. 

There are more and more interesting 

alternative bloodlines among the 

polled sires. GGI can offer a wide range 

of good young sires besides Laron P 

with Asap P, Toppoll P, Parma PP and 

Remake-P. 

Further information can be obtained at 

www.ggi.de. For detailed figures please take 

a look at the table on the right hand side. 

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