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Oakfield Corners wins big at the New England Holstein Show
HP member Oakfield Corners Dairy had a banner winning day at the New England Holstein Show. Highlights include:
Senior Champion, Grand Champion & Champion Bred & Owned Female
Oakfield Reality Harmony, 1st Lifetime Production Cow
Intermediate Champion & Reserve Grand Champion
Kevetta Daniel Lexi, 1st Senior 3-Year-Old
Reserve Intermediate & HM Grand Champion
Oakfield Solomon Footloose, 1st Junior 3-Year-Old
Reserve Senior Champion
Oakfield WB Tiffany, 1st 5-Year-Old
HM Intermediate Champion
Ms Abba Amazing 2319, 1st Junior 2-Year-Old
Other Class Highlights
OCD Doorman Electric, 1st Milking Yearling
Oakfield Addiction Emoji-Red, 1st 4-Year-Old
Oakfield Doorman Brilliant, 3rd Senior 2-Year-Old
1st Senior Best Three Females
Oakfield Corners was also awarded Premier Breeder and Premier Exhibitor of the Show.
Direct from a former No. 2 female!
Selling now are Three #1 and Three #2 grade RALLY RC (+2684GTPI +550NM$ +1423MILK) embryos from the former No. 2 GTPI RC Female in the world, Parkhurst Modesty Samarie. She is currently scored VG-85 and due back in October. She was the second high seller in the 2017 Sale of Stars. Samarie is the dam of 200HO11817 Showy-Red and 7HO15314 Sam-Red. Bid last and make the next bull from AI from this tremendous donor. VIEW OFFERING
IVF Offerings, Available NOW
Available now on the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction are IVF embryo offerings including sexed and non-sexed embryos!
Lot 2: IVF SEXED AWESOME-RED x Willowhaven Goldwyn Bliss RC
Lot 4: IVF REDEYE-P-RED x Midas-Touch HW Royal-Red
FINAL 24 HOURS
FINAL 24 HOURS ... Just one day remains on this edition of the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction. Offerings are available from
**the EX-90 Solomon daughter to 2019 WDE Grand Champion Holstein
**the VG-89 Goldwyn dam to All-American & All Canadian female, Garay Doorman Blind Date
**the A2A2 donor backed by View-Home Mrdian Iowa
**the VG-85 Modesty daughter and former No. 2 GTPI RC female in the world
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Donors with GREAT Components
Check out these offerings on the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction from donors with GREAT components.
Lot 3: SEXED FORTNITE x BGP SLF Huey 18590 - Incredible fat at +0.14%
Lot 4: IVF REDEYE-P-RED x Midas-Touch HW Royal-Red - Great components with +87 lbs of fat
Lot 14: IVF SEXED DYNAMO x Peak Cookie Htln 20486 - High fat at +0.16%
Direct from GOLDWYN BLISS
Selling now are three #1 grade IVF SEXED AWESOME-RED (+2.08PTAT +3.25UDC 0.88FLC) from the beautiful Goldwyn daughter who goes back to Unanimous All-American and All-Canadian female, EX-95 Rainyridge Talent Barbara.
Make the next full sister to... Garay Awesome Beauty VG-88 - All American & Res. All-Canadian Jr. Calf 2016 and All-American & All-Canadian Jr 2-YR 2018 OR the next Maternal sister to... Garay Doorman Blind Date VG-88 - 1st Milking Yearling, Supreme Latier 2019 and All-American & All-Canadian Sr. Calf 2018.
POLLED Embryos
Selling now on the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction are embryos sired by the POLLED RED bull, REDEYE-P-RED. Bid now on this offering of five #1 grade non-sexed IVF embryos out of a unique RED Hawai daughter with NO APPLE in her pedigree. VIEW OFFERING
August 2020 Calving Traits Will Reflect Lower Breed Averages
By John B. Cole,1 Sophie A.E. Eaglen,2 Thomas J. Lawlor,3 and Ezequiel L. Nicolazzi4
Historically, the PTA calculations for calving ease have been centered on a breed average phenotypic base of 8.0% for Holsteins and 5.0% for Brown Swiss. In April 2020, the calving traits, along with all other traits, were adjusted to a new genetic base to account for the genetic improvement over the last five years. As calving difficulty has been steadily decreasing, dairy producers were surprised to see higher PT As for calving ease for some familiar bulls. Some bulls had PTAs of 8% to 10%, yet producers saw only 2% to 3% difficulty after many calvings on their own farms.
The word quickly spread after the April evaluations that there was a mismatch between the calving trait PTAs and the actual rate of dystocia and stillbirth on most farms. The article in the May 2020 CDCB Connection, "What is Going on with Calving Ease?." assured breeders that the bull rankings were correct and that the industry was discussing the best way to express the PT As.
This article explains the new breed average phenotypic bases that will be implemented in August 2020. For brevity, we will focus on calving ease in Holsteins, and briefly comment on changes to Brown Swiss calving ease and Holstein stillbirth, too.
Backed by the UNLIMITED Cow Family
Two offerings on the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction are direct from a VG-87Millenium daughter that scores a PTAT+3.14 and is a direct daughter to an EX-94 MAX Doorman daughter to UNLIMITED! Both non-sexed offerings, sired by two sires of bulls.
ARTIST x Our-Favorite Confession - Current Bid: $525/embryo
DRIFTER x Our-Favorite Confession - Current Bid: $525/embryo