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    Due to family circumstances, the famous Pietjes from the Woudhoeve became available, during a final farm dispersal June 2006. Because of respect for this breeders family and their cows we decided to buy some genes out of this deep cow family. On this pages we will inform you about our trials to build out this great cowfamily at Loveshem..




Pietjes on Loveshem
Pietjes on Loveshem


Woudhoeve Pietjes op Loveshem






Jeffers Pietje
Jeffers Pietje
AB 85
1 lact: 8671 kg Milk 4,39 % Fat 3,10 % Protein 112 LW



Jeffers Pietje (Jefferson * Pietje 864






Woudhoeve Pietje 864
86, 83, 83, 86 VG 85
3 lact: 34480 kg Milk 4,25 % Fat 3,36 % Protein 116 LW



Pietje 864


















Udder Woudhoeve Pietje 786

Udder Pietje 784





Woudhoeve Pietje 609

Pietje 609 ,















  • At the auction we where able to purchase a fine heifer Pietje 864, bread by Hanno.


  • Her 83 ptn's Giessenhof Cashflow dam, Pietje 786 could have some more strenghts but, knows how to produce. Within this high productive herd she belongs to the 10% best production cows with a LW of 110, at the time of the auction. Besides that she shows the famous udder quality of the Pietje family


  • That's the same thing we can say about her second dam, Pietje 688, a 85 ptn's Glenwood daughter.


  • The third dam was lately one of the famous cows on the Woudhoeve. This, 86 ptn's, Etazon Celsius daughter, Pietje 609, is the mother of the proven A.I. Bull Woudhoeve Flyer. But not only that, by flushing her she will become key cow in the nummerous offspring to come next years.


  • The fourth Dam in line is the bull mother Pietje 478. This VG Amos daughter, is the mother of the proven A.I. bull Woudhoeve Russel.


  • To make sure we will have some offsping of her soon, we decided to flushed her with Jefferson, which resulted in 2 female calfs and 1 bull at this moment. After this we sired her with Stadel, which pregnancy resulted into a, RED carrier, female calf, born January 2008. So she has started her productive life as of that moment, doing well, with her caracteristic "Pietjes udder"


  • In the sixties Pietje 131 was a famous cow in the Netherlands. With a lot of predicates, almost 100.000 kg milk and 89 points, she also became the ancestor of a long list of good dairy cows and bulls. In her time the twins Pietje 145 and Pietje 146 where welknown, but also her sons Woudhoeve 441, 478 and 495. After all these years I consider myself a lucky guy. I have had the opportunity, to see Pietje 131 and her daughter Pietje 145 in real live. I was very impressed then, but did never realize then, that I would have their descendants on the farm. For more info about the Pietjes look at the website of Kees Ruyter.


  • Going back to the real history part. Pietje 131 was a daughter of Pietje 94 and Sneeker Diamant. Her Granddam was Pietje 85 a Adema 21 van de Woudhoeve out of Pietje 35. before that we will find Pietje 5 and Pietje E2.


  • This Pietje trail is also going back to Adema 21 van de Woudhoeve. One of the most famous bulls in the Dutch breeding history. Hi died in 1960 as an aged bull. He was a son of Dina Lindbergh Adema and Pietje 15, a Pietje 5 daughter, who was combined with that other famous Dutch bull, Oldambster Adema 1.


  • Visit the Vormthoeve for more historical info about the Pietje Family and their breeders:Vormthoeve


  • Have also a Visit to Tollebeke Dairy to get some more news about the Pietjes:
    Tollebeke