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FEED EFFICIENCY: WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR A HIGH FEED INTAKE?
Voerefficiëntie is als fokwaarde opgenomen in de berekening van de NVI tijdens de indexdraai van april 2022. De K.I-organisatie die deze fokwaarde heeft, zal een hogere NVI-ranking krijgen dan de andere K.I.-organisaties. Maar is deze fokwaarde ‘Voerefficiëntie’ waar de veehouder op zit te wachten of bekijk je voerefficiëntie – net zoals K.I. SAMEN – vanuit de praktische bril?
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The total package dominates
Follow the line of progression Big Malki has noted an enormous increase in kg of fat and kg of protein from the first to the fifth milk yield record: more than 95 kg fat and protein. This increase over the successive lactations not only illustrates the rise in productivity, but also shows that Malki daughters…
Lees meerBig Malki has been stamping his mark on breeding for 10 years!
Breeding technician Jacques Dings was convinced of Malki’s strengths right from the start, and has therefore often been referred to as Mr Malki. Jacques: “With its portfolio of bulls, K.I. SAMEN helps farmers ensure their barns are populated by healthy, problem-free daughters with high longevity and high lifetime production. Many farmers in the past have…
Lees meerBest cow of 2022
Truus 68 (Kian x Black Price) owned by the Martens family in Luyksgestel has been awarded the title of Best Cow of 2022. The title of Best ‘Young’ Cow was awarded to Sandra 2 (Malki x Minos) owned by the van de Riet family in Markelo. The public prize was claimed by Venus 36 (Norwin…
Lees meerThe smartest route to a polled herd
There is great interest from the sector in breeding polled cows, but also questions about how to achieve this. Polledness is determined by a gene that is typified with a ‘P’, meaning ‘polled’. A capital letter P signifies polled, a lower case p means horned. Each cow and each bull has a pair of genes…
Lees meerGrowing necessity for diversity in the Holstein breed
Analysis shows that breeding has produced more of the same If we examine the larger dairy and beef farming countries, of the 1310 new registered animals some 1000 bulls have the same three code numbers. Particularly striking is that in the past year only eight bulls have been coded throughout all of Canada. Denmark and…
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