Kiss Pollytime at van der Vegt in Dalfsen

Every week, cows in the Netherlands pass the magical limit of 100,000 kilograms of milk. Every month, the Melkveebedrijf magazine visits one of them and lets the farmer tell about the cow and the company where it is located. This time, the hundred-tonner Kiss Pollytime from Dairy Farm Van der Vegt in Dalfsen (the Netherlands) is in the spotlight.
Below is a copy of the report from magazine Melkveebedrijf December 2024.

“She has never had an high cell count,” says Roland van der Vegt of Dairy Farm Van der Vegt in Dalfsen proudly. “At the last milk test, her cell count was nine thousand, but she always stays below ten thousand.”

Hundred-tonner Kiss Pollytime
Kiss Pollytime came to this dairy farm as an embryo. Over the years, she grew into a spirited dairy cow. “She has a strong character. When the hoof trimmer comes, we need a shovel to get her into the hoof trimming box. She is also always at the front of the feed fence as the leader of the cows. She is truly the queen of the barn, but this is also where her strength lies for high milk production.” Kiss Pollytime achieved the 100,000 liter limit during milk testing of October. Her large, spacious and wide body gives her substance and makes her a roughage processor par excellence. This ensured that she became a hundred-tonner in her eighth lactation.

Strong genetics
Van der Vegt’s neighbour has a full sister of Kiss Pollytime: Policy 1. The high milk production seems to have been clearly passed on through genetics. Policy 1 now has a milk production of 136,000 litres. She gives an average of 57 litres per day, on 305 days of lactation. “A super dairy cow”, according to dairy farmer Martien van der Kamp. “In her last lactation she gave 18,000 litres. Just like her sister, she has a wide front in and you can’t just get her into the hoof trimming box.”

Van der Vegt also sees this temperament in the offspring of Kiss Pollytime: “I have one of her offspring from the sire Mr Dds Mega-Watt-ET. He is also a real beast and is now at about 60,000 litres of milk production in four lactations. Five days after calving she is already at forty litres of milk. It is either in there or it is not, but these are real dairy cows.”

Right direction with breeding
With breeding, the dairy farmer consciously steers towards high milk production without many problems. This includes a functional conformation, such as a beautiful udder, good legs and a body that is not too big. He also pays extra attention to udder health, claw health, fertility and persistence. “We like our cows to grow old well. For example, we graze and I know the character of the cows. If there is something different about the animals, I notice it and I act immediately. These are not extreme things, but it does make me a cow farmer.”

In addition, the dairy farmer likes to try out other bloodlines. “A friend of mine works at AI Service Salland. He supplies embryos from flushing and because of this I have many different bloodlines on my farm. This hundred-tonner also comes from there, from an deep American cow family.”

Strong genetics group
Experimenting with different bloodlines ensures that this dairy farm has a large share of young cattle: ninety young cattle (including an average of twenty to 25 bulls) compared to eighty dairy cattle. In addition, the dairy farmer has 56 hectares of land, of which 9.5 hectares are used for corn and 1.5 hectares for fodder beets. The rest is grassland.

“Of course, the number of young cattle also has to go down for the manure and phosphate legislation. It may be strange to say, when you are talking about hundred-tonners, because you would prefer your cows to grow old healthily. But when it is time for the new generation, you would also like to have a genetically strong group ready.”

It’s nice that “our” breeding is appreciated. Every now and then we do something in breeding together. Like that we bought the heifer Future Dream H Windy Policy 2 (Baxter x WKV Outside Policy EX-93) at the Tulip Sale 2011. A flush with the also bred by us Kiss AltaTime It (Big Time x Butemare Veneriete Ida O) resulted in 2 pregnancies which grew into these toppers. Roland and Martien, through your craftsmanship, have shown these cows what they are capable of. Congratulations! Facebook Jan van Ankum, Nieuwleusen.

The dam of Kiss Pollytime and Policy is Future Dream H Windy Policy 2 and she was delivered as an embryo in 2008 by ALH to the Wijnker family, Avenhorn. Policy 2 her dam is Windy-Knoll-View Policy EX-93 and granddam Windy-Knoll-View Promis EX-95. As a fresh milking heifer she was selected by Adolf Langhout for the Tulip Sale 2011 and purchased by Jan van Ankum, Nieuwleusen. ALH congratulates all owners with the wonderful production results!

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