Giessen Utopia

Giessen Utopia, as the prefix indicates, bred by Theo van Vliet from Nieuwlande (NL). For many years, the Giessen herd has been performing both in terms of production and all-round conformation at the top of the Dutch Holstein herds . With Rubicon as his father, Utopia has probably the best Mogul son in his lineage out there. If we look at the proven bull debut of Utopia, we see many similarities. A high production index nice numbers for kg milk in combination with high fatand a high plus for protein. Not only in production, but also when we look at functional traits, we see many similarities between Utopia and Rubicon. Slightly below average for fertility and hoof health but above average scores for udder health, daughter calving ease, persistency and maturity rate. We can pull this line all the way through to its conformation traits. We see many similarities especially for frame characteristics, above average scores for height, strength, body depth, cross width and openness of the ribs, utopia has a slightly more favourable position of the cross section.