Paris - a Brinks 2-year-old with 6 generations of Excellent dams, from the Present family.
Pillow - a high-producing Beamer 2-year-old from the world record holder Prelude Pixy 2E92
Tessy - a 5th generation EX Prelude Zeus, from Twilite's 93 point. full-sister, Tristan 2E93
Pauline - an 88-point 2-year-old granddaughter of 2x All-American Collection Party. Pauline is sired by Zoldo Zeus, who was 3rd Jr. 2-year-old at the 2009 Eastern National.
Tori - a Power Surge granddaughter of Twilite, the 2006 World Dairy Expo champion.  Tori's dam recently topped the Elite Dairy Sale at $38,000.  Tori is owned with Jeff and Britany Boldt.
Tia - a yearling by Total from Timberline Jetway Toni EX-94 3E 4x All-American.  Tia is a full sister to Truth, our winner from the 2009 World Dairy Expo.

Sunshine Genetics is now using IVF technology to produce more female embryos. Our ET team and other selected ET veterinarians in Wisconsin are cooperating with a new laboratory of Sexing Technologies, located in Fond du Lac, Wis., which features semen sorting.

We will be collecting oocytes from donor cows, heifers and pregnant females that are housed at Sunshine on a weekly basis. Locally owned cows can be trucked back and forth for the procedure.

Although IVF is a last resort for some infertile cows, the best results come from young, healthy, fertile females. IVF may be used between conventional ET procedures in some donors. IVF can be done on pregnant cows and heifers early in the gestation when ovaries are within reach.

If you are planning to send your cow here for this procedure, please call us, we can answer your questions and discuss health tests, etc. You must have semen available to send to the lab well in advance of the procedure for best results.

To learn more about the IVF process, click the Services tab above.

Chris and his wife, Ann, traveled to Israel in early November, spending a week with Scion’s ET team as a consultant. Chris also presented a seminar to a group of veterinarians, breeders, and AI personel. He added: "I was impressed with the level of milk production in Israel, and the challenges they have with the climate and high environmental temperatures."

The Toni family struck gold again at World Dairy Expo 2009 as Milk & Honey Sun TTL Truth was named Reserve Junior Champion after topping the Summer Yearling Class at the Central National Brown Swiss Show.

Truth combines two of the most successful show families at Expo and has a pedigree packed with All-Americans. An early daughter of Total, the Legacy son of 2006 Expo Champion Sunnyisle Colby Twilite, Truth is right out of Timberline Jetway Toni, herself a 4-time All-American and Reserve Champion at Expo in 1999.

ET calves coming from Truth soon!

We were pleased to host several international visitors at our farm within recent weeks. Pictured is a group of Chinese ET personnel from the Beijing Dairy Cattle Center. From left to right are: Mr. Zhu, Yulin; Ms. Xue, Jianhua; Dan, Chris, Ms. Li, Yanhu ; Mr. Ma, Zhu ; and Mr. Lang, Yayuan.

We look forward to hosting visitors during World Dairy Expo. Call ahead, or click on the Who We Are tab for more details!

Sunshine Genetics is assisting Dr. Harry Momont with his elective course on large animal reproduction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Momont brings three or four fourth-year students each month to our ET center for instruction on the basics of embryo technology.

Sunshine Genetics is proud to announce the addition of Dr. Greg Schueller D.V.M. to our staff. Greg is incharge of our IVF program and performs the OO cyte asperations. Greg grew up on a dairy farm in southwest Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in 1991. Upon graduation, he joined and later became a partner in a primarily dairy group practice in Hazel Green, Wis., specializing in dairy reproduction and herd health. In 1999, he began doing embryo transfer work and later became AETA certified.

In 2003, he began performing reproductive ultrasound and became proficient at twin diagnosis and fetal sexing. Greg is married to Marcia who is a speech therapist and he has three daughters: Brianna, Kailyn, and Melia. In his spare time, Greg enjoys water-sports, camping and bicycling. He and his family reside in Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Sunshine Genetics has had the pleasure of hosting several international and U.S. groups at the Whitewater farm and we'd like to take a moment to recognize and thank each for taking the time to stop and look at the donors and cows at the farm.

• Jenny Miller, a veterinary student from Maryland spent a week here recently.  We believe she will have a promising future with embryo technology.
• Dr. Kim Kessenich and Bonnie Griffin from the Madison USDA-APHIS office visited to observe the ET procedures.
• Juan Morano, owner/partner of Sexing Technologies with Luis, Alfredo and Danelle
• Angie Coburn and Paul Haskins, CRI - Genex, Wisconsin
• Adolph Langhout, Ahtt Genetics, Holland
• Cord Hoeltje, World Wide Sires, Germany
• Charlie Will, Select Sires, Ohio
• Matt Engel, Adran Haldeman, Switzerland