January 2010

• Exciting proof day!
  
• Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Alloy is now the #1 Milk bull for the breed!
  • +1665M +38F +41P
  • Also, still great on Type +0.7 (with the base change) - Alloy is siring daughters with high, wide rear udders AND they are super tall and super dairy!
  • This is our homebred pair of Alloys from our bull - we like 'em!
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• Dam and daughter on the PPR list!
  • Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie E90 jumped to #22 on the PPR list
  • Twinkle-Hill Legacy Lucky V85 debuted at #85 on the PPR list
    
    
• Front Line PomPoms Olivia 2E92 *Cert-SBC* calved at 10/01 on January 10th with a Supreme heifer calf!
  
  
• January test results
• Twinkle-Hill Dyn America - 98 lbs
  
• Twinkle-Hill PSurge Odyssey - 119 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Domnte Odessa -116 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Dominate Opal - 94 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Blue Chip Jenna - 105 lbs
• IE Twinkle-Hill Zen Nicole - 107 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie - 107 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Welcome Starry - 107 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Atomic Didi - 98 lbs
• Kulp-Wink Zeus Tippycanoe - 96 lbs
• CIE Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola - 96 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Pronto Starlust - 94 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Jemstone Dinah - 101 lbs
  
  
• New Alloy daughter picture
• Twinkle-Hill Alloy Velvet - calved in September with a Pollyden heifer
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November 2009

• New arrival from Kulp Wink Zeus Tippycanoe V87 (pictured below)
  
• A Dynasty heifer calf arrived on Sunday 11/08/09
  
  
  
• Flushing Results from 11/9/09
  
  • 7 #1's and 5 #2's by Barmettler Ace Agio from Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie
    • We put in 4 of the #2's and froze the rest (available for export)
      
      
• Visitors from Switzerland
  • Dan Gilbert and our friends from Switzerland stopped in to see our Alloy daughters and had many positive comments. Thanks for stopping by!
    
    
• New pictures coming!
  • We'll be doing some picturing of our latest Alloy daughter, Twinkle-Hill Alloy Velvet, in late November, come back to see in December!

October 2009

• 10/16/09 Test Day Results - as you can see the girls are milking well!
  • Twinkle-Hill Dyn America - 141 lbs!
    
  • Twinkle-Hill PSurge Odyssey - 113 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Domnte Odessa - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Blue Chip Jenna - 98 lbs
  • IE Twinkle-Hill Zen Nicole - 109 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel - 101 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie - 120 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Welcome Starry - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Atomic Didi - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Legacy Lucky - 94 lbs
  • Geomistar Psurg Trinity - 96 lbs
  • CIE Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola - 94 lbs
    
    
• Check out the Show Results from World Dairy Expo - we had some nice animals that did just fine!
  
  
• During World Dairy Expo we had visitors from Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy - it was great having the international visitors at the farm to see the cows!
  
  
• We just got news that Twinkle-Hill Den Welcome (Denver x Altra) is making the sire line-up at ABC Genetics after the August 2009 proof run.
  
  
• Speaking of bulls, we just had another Alloy daughter freshen from the Even Victoria family. Her udder looks fantastic AND she had a heifer by Pollyden.
  

September 2009

• 9/7/09 Test Day Results:
  • Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel 2E91 - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Vincent Domino V87 - 103 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie E90 - 118 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Dyn Starbrite V88- 105 lbs
  • CIE Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola V86- 96 lbs (daughter of #96 PPR cow, Twinkle-Hill Zenith Nicole V88)
  • Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle V88 - 98 lbs
  • RF Twinkle-Hill Pepper V85 - 96 lbs
  • Crescent Twinkle Sweetie V85 - 92 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Legacy Lucky V85 - 92 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill EvnSpl Panda V87 - 94 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Dominate Odessa 2E91 - 109 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby V87 - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill PSurg Odyssey E90 - 103 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Blue Chip Jenna V86 - 98 lbs
  • Twinkle-Hill Dynasty America E90 - 128 lbs

Fall 2009

• Look for our showstring in the corner of Barn 1 at World Dairy Expo! We'll have a nice group of cows and a couple heifers at the show.
  
  
• August Bull Proofs brought the release of our first proven bull! Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Alloy is available through New Generation Genetics.
• Alloy is the #1 Sire (of Qualified & Superior sires) for:
  • Rear Udder Height (+1.9)
  • Rear Udder Width (+2.1)
  • Udder Cleft (+2.4)
  • Dairy Form (+3.0)
  • Type (+1.0, tie w/ TD and Wonderment)
• He's #2 for Stature (+2.7), #3 for Milk (+1559), Thurl Width (+0.9), and tied at #10 for Milking Speed (102).
  
• If you want tall, dairy cows with big rear udders that know how to milk, Alloy is your bull!
  
  
  
• Cows on the August 2009 PPR list:
• No. 96: IE Twinkle-Hill Zenith Nicole V88
• No. 103: Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie E90
• No. 119: Mill Wheel Pre Ferrari V85 (owned by Kelly Lee, Johnson Creek, WI)
• No. 131: Twinkle-Hill Den PuddingPop V85
• No. 286: Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel 2E91
  



• New calves born since our last update:
• 7/14/09 - Total x Geomistar Psurg Trinity V88 - a calf with a super cut!
• 7/27/09 - Parker x Twinkle-Hill Turmoil Renatta Twin +82
• 7/27/09 - Vigor x Twinkle-Hill Psurg Odyssey E90
• 8/9/09 - Agenda x Twinkle-Hill Avenger Amythyst +81
• 8/18/09 - Vigor x Twinkle-Hill Psurg Odyssey E90
• 8/18/09 - Vance x Holstein (crossbred)
• 9/1/09 - Alloy twin heifers from Twinkle-Hill Zenith Nicole V88
  
  
• High milk cows for the July DHIA tester:
• Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel 2E91 - 116 lbs
• CIE Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola V85 - 114 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle V88 - 109 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Starbrite V88 - 124 lbs
• Twinkle-Hill Dynasty America ET E90 - 131 lbs (she's a full sister to Alloy!)



• The classifier stopped by in early September. We scored a nice group of cows with 2 new EX and 6 VG two year olds (denoted by *).
  

Cow	SS	DQ	RP	MO	US	Final Score
Crescent View Pro Starlite	90	88	83	90	87	88
Twinkle-Hill Dom Arlaina	91	90	90	90	88	89
Twinkle-Hill Domnte Odessa	93	86	93	91	91	91
Twinkle-Hill Vance Celica	92	83	87	90	88	88
Twinkle-Hill Psurg Odyssey	92	91	84	88	91	90
Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby	91	86	87	85	86	87
Twinkle-Hill Blue Chip Jenna	90	86	86	83	87	86
Twinkle-Hill Dyn America	94	85	93	91	88	90
Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie	94	86	84	90	92	90
Twinkle-Hill Vincent Domino	90	87	87	83	87	87
Twinkle-Hill Dyn Starbrite	91	87	90	90	85	88
Twinkle-Hill Special Panda	90	86	86	85	87	87
Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle	88	83	86	85	91	88
Twinkle-Hill Den PuddingPop	88	72	86	85	88	85
Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola	90	80	85	85	86	85
Geomistar Jetway Tiffany	93	90	88	84	85	87
Geomistar PowerSurg Trinity	87	87	90	86	88	88
Twinkle-Hill Beamer Wreath *	84	77	84	86	85	84
Twinkle-Hill Opie Persimmon *	88	67	92	65	85	79
Crescent Twinkle Sweetie *	85	80	88	84	90	86
Just So Denver Jewel *	88	82	76	84	83	83
Twinkle-Hill Psurg Starsky *	86	83	85	82	87	85
Twinkle-Hill Legacy Lucky *	87	80	85	84	86	85
Mill Wheel Pre Ferrari *	86	80	83	85	85	85
Mill Wheel SW Denver Geena *	90	80	85	78	80	82
Twinkle-Hill Supreme Dainty *	78	82	85	84	80	81
Twinkle-Hill Legacy Delilah *	77	78	84	84	82	81
Twinkle-Hill Avenger Amythyst *	80	83	80	78	85	82
Twinkle-Hill Psurg Starbit *	85	87	88	86	88	87
Twinkle-Hill Turmoil Renatta Twin *	77	78	83	86	84	82
Geomistar Kegger Tipsy *	82	79	83	83	78	80
RF Twinkle-Hill Pepper *	84	87	85	83	86	85

Summer 2009

• NEW PICTURES POSTED!
  

  Kulp-Wink Zeus Tippycanoe V87 2nd Sr. 2 Year Old - 2009 Wisconsin State Show	Twinkle-Hill All Olympia ET V86 4th Jr. 3 Year Old - 2009 Wisconsin State Show

  
  
• Check out the Show Results page to see how we fared at the 2009 Wisconsin State Show!
  
  
• The DHIA tester stopped by on June 12, here are a few of the cows that are really doing well!
  • Twinkle-Hill Dyn America-ET V89 *Cert*- 135 lbs!
    • Dynasty x EX Collection Altra (a full sister to Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Alloy)
  • Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel 2E91 *Cert*- 118 lbs
    • Red Brae Ace Zenith x 2E92 Prelude Raquel
  • Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle V86 - 116 lbs
    • Dynasty x VG Special x VG Jemstone x EX Collection
  • Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby V85 - 114 lbs
    • Jamaica x V88 Emerald
  • Kulp-Wink Zeus Tippecanoe V87- 103 lbs (pictured above)
    • Red Brae Prelude Zeus x +84 Jolt x EX Emory Tawny
      
      
• We're heading to the Wisconsin State Show at the end of June with a few good ones. Watch for updates in early July.
  • Here's a preview of one of the girl's we'll be taking...we're hoping she's Lucky...
    
    
    
• BIG NEWS: Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Alloy's first proof (04/09) was quite exciting. He debuted at No. 5 on the PPR list with +1930M +50F +53P.
• We're currently milking one Alloy out of Front Line PomPoms Olivia 2E92 *Cert* *SBC*, Twinkle-Hill All Olympia.


• New calves born this spring and summer:
• Born 7/9/09 - Supreme x PSurge Starbit x Starlust
• Born 6/21/09 - Agio x Denver Pudding Pop
• Born 6/1/09 - Wagor x Dynasty America - an interesting mating that we're excited about!
• Born 5/11/09 - Agenda x Flash (Emory x Frisky) - the "Flash" is super fancy!
• Born 4/26/09 - Galaxy x Dynasty Startle - Startle looks GREAT!
• Born 4/13/09 - Dynasty x Opie x Cube Penelope
• Born 3/2/09 - Red Brae Prelude Zeus x Special Panda - this calf is in the string!

Spring 2009

• We have a lot of cows due to calve this spring...
  • Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby V85 (Jamaica x Emerald x Selectman )
    • due 3/18 to Alloy
  • Twinkle-Hill Fame Opaque V87 (Fame x Dominate Opal x Prelude x PR x Priscilla)
    • due 4/21 to Vigor
  • Twinkle-Hill Domnte Arlaina V88 (Dominate x Collection Altra)
    • due 4/22 to Red Brae Prelude Zeus
  • Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle V86 (Dynasty x Special x Jemstone x Collection Star)
    • due 4/24 to Galaxy
  • Twinkle-Hill Dyn America V89 (Dynasty x Collection Altra)
    • due 5/24 to Wagor
    
    
    
• Our resident artist of the family (Laurie) has artistic prints of a Brown Swiss cow available for sale! Picture is below...
  • You can call or email Laurie (614.507.1574, law237@cornell.edu) if you are interested
  • Or you can buy online at www.cowartandmore.com
    

• Twinkle-Hill Vance Atomic is one of the higher production bulls from the January proof. His daughters know how to pay the bills - even with the terrible milk prices!
  • 1/09 +1103M +49F +46P

Fall 2008

• Our first Superior Brood Cow
  • Front Line PomPoms Olivia 2E92 (picture below) qualified as a Superior Brood Cow in 2008 with her first three milking daughters.
    
    
    
• New pictures posted! Click on links below to take a look!
  • Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie V89, E91 Udder
  • Twinkle-Hill Legacy Stars V88
  • Twinkle-Hill PSurg Odyssey E90
    
    
• Show Results
  • Wisconsin State Fair and State Show
  • World Dairy Expo - Central National Brown Swiss Show
    
    
• December Classification Results
  • 15 two year olds were scored - 11 were VG & the other 5 were GP!
  • Full results below - 2 yr olds denoted by an asterisk*
  • Whole herd averages >86 points, none lower than 80.

	SS	DQ	RP	MO	US	FS
RF Clint Starletta *	85	86	83	84	85	85
Twinkle-Hill Dom Odessa	94	90	92	91	91	2E-91
Twinkle-Hill Dominate Dixie	95	91	90	92	91	2E-92
Little Cobb Keno Pear	92	91	93	80	76	83
Twinkle-Hill Vance Starglow	93	87	88	88	77	84
Twinkle-Hill Zenith Rachel	92	93	88	92	90	2E-91
Twinkle-Hill Psurg Odyssey	91	92	79	91	90	90
Twinkle-Hill Bluechip Jenna	88	86	84	82	87	86
Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie	92	87	80	87	91	89
Twinkle-Hill Vincent Domino	83	85	87	82	86	85
Twinkle-Hill Pront Starlust	90	87	86	77	84	84
Twinkle-Hill Jolt Orchid	87	83	86	90	86	86
Twinkle Hill Fame Opaque	87	90	88	87	86	87
Twinkle-Hill Atom Daisyduke	88	84	80	82	83	83
Twinkle-Hill Dyn Starbrite	86	88	88	85	86	86
Twinkle-Hill Atom Dixiecup	82	92	78	82	76	81
Twinkle-Hill Legacy Stars *	87	87	88	90	88	88
Twinkle-Hill Dynasty Startle *	82	85	70	86	91	86
Twinkle-Hill Den PuddingPop *	81	87	82	86	87	85
Twinkle-Hill Leg Nicola *	92	68	84	85	80	81
Geomi Star Jetway Tiffany	94	88	83	88	83	86
Harder Rombo Donna *	86	86	83	88	87	87
Twinkle-Hill Avenger Jen *	81	84	85	88	81	83
Top Acres Coll Fiesta *	87	87	81	86	83	85
Geomi Star Psurg Trinity *	89	86	84	86	87	87
Twinkle-Hill Welcome Starry *	81	83	87	87	74	80
Twinkle-Hill Den Stargazer *	80	83	85	88	87	85
Twinkle-Hill All Olympia *	83	90	84	87	85	86
Kulp Wink Zeus Tippycanoe *	85	85	86	87	88	87
Twinkle-Hill Legacy Ophelia *	82	81	81	85	84	83
ID Twinkle-Hill Ace Corrie	91	87	88	88	90	89
IE Twinkle-Hill Zen Nicole	87	91	90	86	87	88
IE Twinkle-Hill Atom Jolene *	86	85	86	82	87	85

July 2008

• Our first two Avenger daughters are now fresh (both had heifer calves - see below).
  • Watch here for more to come from these first crop daughters!
    
    
• Four new heifer calves from three different cow families:

  Born: 7/21/08
  Sire: Brook Run Ensign Fame
  Dam: Twinkle-Hill Vance Starglow +84
  2/02 305d 2x 22690 4.2 943 3.7 835
  3/02 303d 2x 22485 4.4 989 3.6 805
  4/02 305d 2x 21469 3.9 834 3.5 752
  2nd Dam: Twinkle-Hill Jem Starstruck V87
  2/01 303d 2x 20280 4.6 943 3.6 725
  *5th Spring Yrlg Hfr - Central National 02
  3rd Dam: Kulp Gen Collection Star E90 (2 yr)
  2/01 305d 2x 18830 4.1 746 3.4 623
  *1st BU Sr 2 Yr Old Wisconsin State Show 01
  4th Dam: Sun-Made Patrick Stardom *Cert* 2E90
  5/04 365d 2x 25750 5.0 1277 3.7 964

  Born: 7/15/08
  Sire: Arthurst Garbro Diablo
  Dam: Twinkle-Hill Pronto Starlust +82
  2/01 305d 2x 19362 4.2 796 3.5 667
  2nd Dam: Kulp Gen Ensign Starling ET 2E91
  7/10 305d 2x 24360 3.6 884 3.1 747
  3rd Dam: Sun-Made Patrick Stardom *Cert* 2E90
  5/04 365d 2x 25750 5.0 1277 3.7 964

  Born: 7/11/08
  Sire: Hilltop Acres En Dynasty
  Dam: Twinkle-Hill Avenger Jen
  2nd Dam: Twinkle-Hill Blue Chip Jenna V86
  3/00 330d 2x 26221 3.9 1019 3.4 893
  4/00 22d 2x 1663 4.0 66 3.3 55 RIP
  3rd Dam: CIE Thane Energy Jenny *Cert* E90
  5/02 365d 2x 32830 3.5 1146 3.3 1083
  Lifetime: 1694d 139004m 5094f 4501p
  4th Dam: IE Olson Thane Jane *Cert* V88
  Lifetime: 1126d 126770m 4165f 3868p
  * J. P. Eves Award 00

  Born: 6/29/08
  Sire: Blessing Banker Agenda
  Dam: Twinkle-Hill Avenger Disco (482)
  2/00 13d 2x 464 3.9 18 3.4 16 RIP
  2nd Dam: Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby V85
  2/01 305d 2x 22726 4.3 973 3.4 784
  3/10 152d 2x 14110 4.2 588 3.2 445 RIP
  3rd Dam: Twinkle-Hill Emrld Don Debi V88
  4/08 305d 2x 25230 4.7 1191 3.3 840
  4th Dam: C & B Donna “Not Classified”
  4/01 328d 2x 21740 4.2 912 3.5 763

• Highlights from the DHIA tester in July:
  • Twinkle-Hill PSurge Odyssey V88 - 105 lbs.
    • (Power Surge x EX Dominate x EX Prelude x EX Pete Rose x Priscilla)
      
      
  • Twinkle-Hill Dominate Odessa E91 - 100 lbs.
    • (Dominate x EX Prelude x EX Pete Rose x Priscilla)
    
    
  • Twinkle-Hill Fame Opaque +80 - 100 lbs.
    • (Fame x EX Dominate Opal x EX Prelude x EX Pete Rose x Priscilla)
      
      
  • Twinkle-Hill TD Laurie V85 (2 yr.) - 102 lbs.
    • (TD x +Ellusion x Dotson)
      
      
  • Twinkle-Hill Jamaica Darby V85 - 107 lbs.
    • (Jamaica x Emerald x Selectman)
      
      
  • Little Cobb Keno Pear V85 - 98 lbs.
    • (Keno x VG Emerald x +Prophet x VG Preston x VG Telstar x VG Babaray)
      
      
  • Twinkle-Hill Dyn America V89 - 94 lbs.
    • (Dynasty x Collection x Patrick x Jade)
      
      
  • Twinkle-Hill Vincent Domino F79 - 94 lbs.
    • (Vincent x Mister x Volair)