Yea they’ll be an efficient animal in terms of milk production.
Jersey cross/ purebreds, costs, outputs?
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Think a few are missing the point a little, all breeds “can” graze, where the x bred really wins Is when the weather turns and your heavier Friesian/flec cows are poaching the ground or your Holsteins are stood at the gate waiting to come back in the x breds keep on grazing. Those extra days all stack up at the end of the day, don’t sell calves here but @14 months steers sired by a kiwi x bull (11f 5j) outsold my BF steers in 2020. IMO you need just enough Jersey to get some of the benefits but not so much that cull and calf value falls off a cliff. X bred cows all going back to either BF or NR here.
Yea but premier has some very good figures and from a good cow family, Ardlui grand dam is arrivals dam and he has good traits.
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uk sires, have some very old bulls in their list, looking through the pedigrees, bull names from the bulls we were using 60/70's. If you take that a little further, those bulls were at the 'peak' of the fr breed, prior to the use of hol, so in fairness, they should be really good. I would imagine one over a extreme hol cow, would be a brilliant x.
The fr displaced the dual purpose s/horn, as a 'pure' milk breed, that became 'dual' purpose, and then itself, was replaced by the hol, which very definitely was not dual purpose, and now, we are moving back to a more dual purpose cow, ironic.
The fr displaced the dual purpose s/horn, as a 'pure' milk breed, that became 'dual' purpose, and then itself, was replaced by the hol, which very definitely was not dual purpose, and now, we are moving back to a more dual purpose cow, ironic.
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90% will be housed on TMR but still as a national average is think it's pretty impressive
