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International Osnabrueck Black & White Days 2012

The 36^th International Black & White Days on January 27^th/28^th in Osnabrueck (northwest Germany) have been one of the most international events in the long history of this show. Visitors from more than 20 different countries were beyond the big crowd of in total 2.000 people during the farm tour and breeders´ reception on Friday as well as the individual Holstein show, progeny group presentation and Top Genetic Auction on Saturday.

Many show cows with OHG bulls in the pedigree successful

Judging the show this year was Cord Hormann, one of the young members of the German national judging panel, who had judged already before some international events as well. In the category of first calving cows he selected out of the 3 classes for the champion line up a very youthful Mr. Sam (GoB Noelle from Goldstein), a long stretchy Goldwyn (Ellen from Langkamp) and an impressive Baxter (KNS Rapunzel) out of the famous Radieuse family of Niermann. Due to style, length of body and particularly height and width of rear udder the clear champion within these 2-Year-Olds became Goldwyn Ellen from Langkamp - out of a family with a pure OHG line up of bulls (Lancelot x Dorado x Asterix x Sioux). This fancy black Young Champion was then short-termed added to the sale in the afternoon.

The success of animals with OHG sires continued in the category of 2^nd lactation cows. Especially in the first class the maybe best udder cow of the whole show won the class - out of the perfect combination Jose x Ramos and owned by Annen in Nortrup. The next class was won by a Goldino and this cow exemplifies, why this Goldwyn-son has been the most popular type bull last year within the OHG line up. The champion of this category was one of the older 2^nd lactation cows. The white KNS Ramos Dorflady of Niermann dairy impressed the judge by her overall correctness, cleanliness of bone and more firmly attached udder than the reserve champion, the black deep-ribbed Roumare Atlanta from Meyer in Kettenkamp.


Intermediate Champion - KNS Ramos Dorflady

In the older cow classes mostly cows participated that have been exhibited at previous shows up to the national level before. For a final line up the judge selected beside the Ramos Honduras from Annen the white KJH Derek Indiana from the Kloecker-Juergens farm and GoB Aaron Karo from Goldstein Dairy. GoB Karo impresses the judge and the audience due to her dairyness and extremely good and strong attached udder for an aged cow in 4^th lactation. So she became the easy winner ahead of the white KJH Indiana, who made it for the 3^rd time in the row to come into the champion selection at the Black & White Days.

JOEL – a Jose son out of the Ladys-Manor Ruby Jen - family attracts lot of attention

After a lunch break OHG presented daughter groups of some new bulls which have just recently daughters in milk. Up to now most daughters already milking has the bull TOPAZ, who is the most complete Toystory son in the line-up and comes out of a family with Laudan and Dorado behind him. A group of in total 6 very uniform ICARUS daughters demonstrated that this Icefyre-brother to the type specialist Goldino obviously transmits good milk volume combined with very good feet & legs and nice rear udders as well. For many people the group of very early Joel daughters was maybe the most interesting one. JOEL is a Jose out of Ladys-Manor Ruby Marcie (BW Marshall) and then Ruby Jen EX-94. In the December-proof he did not have any daughter information yet, but belongs to the Top-3 genomic Jose sons. The exhibited group shows great potential for production, frame, wide enough rumps and good udder quality.

The final part of the event was the Top Genetic Auction, which started with the added highlight: the Junior Champion 2-Year-old Goldwyn Ellen - sold for 6.500 €. Then another 20 virgin heifers out of top cow families and mostly with high genomic proofs were offered in the sale and the average sales price of 4.850 € (6.400 US$) was the highest ever reached at this event. 50 % of the calves went abroad to customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. 3 animals reached the top price of 7.000 €: a Snowman out of Goldwyn Riviera VG-86 (Radieuse family), a Super out of Rabur Goldwyn Panzer VG-87 and an AltaIota out of Goldwyn Konnie VG-87 followed by the European Champion Outside Kora EX-93.

The young breeders offered an early 2^nd crop Shandar heifer out of the KBH Michaela- family. Shandar is the No. 1 Shottle in Germany and also the highest production bull. So this nice black heifer calf created a lot of interest. The lucky winner in the raffle was a breeder of Slovenia.


The lucky winner of the Shandar calf from Slovenia

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