Jersey Thread - For all things Jersey

[cull cows]

Picking up 3 jersey cows in the morning to multi suckle calves.....
I hope they take to them ok!!
Pictures to follow

 

[Cows 'n grass]

TE bolus?

Trace element, won't have any affect on milk fever.

I forgot to say that I also use quite a bit of calcium drench on older cows once they've calved. I probably could use less but it's just insurance, a drench cost a £1 or 2 and takes 30seconds in the parlour. Feking about with down cows wastes a lot of time.

 

[sidjon]

Trace element.

I forgot to say that I also use quite a bit of calcium drench on older cows once they've calved. I probably could use less but it's just insurance, a drench cost a £1 or 2 and takes 30seconds in the parlour. Feking about with down cows wastes a lot of time.

Is that aggars drench?

 

[ImLost]

Picking up 3 jersey cows in the morning to multi suckle calves.....
I hope they take to them ok!!
Pictures to follow

Awaiting a new thread on here

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Is that aggars drench?

Yes, I've taken to diluting it and giving them either a quarter or a half bottle now.

 

[jerseycowsman]

Yes, I've taken to diluting it and giving them either a quarter or a half bottle now.

We give them a calcium bolus at calving and another at first milking

 

[Bald Rick]

Ok how are you finding them , for feet etc and yield

Vary in size from huge with an arse like Kim Kardashian (sp?) to just a bit bigger than our biggest Jerseys. Feet are ok and they have no problems calving (yet). Yield over 9000 with more than acceptable solids.
Settled down from being a bit jumpy (they came from a Danish Tie stall system) to being a bit dopey/docile now - you have to nudge them to move them and we are happy with them. To make them smaller, though, we are crossing to Jersey

This produces a calf more like 50 kg at birth although we do some pures to keep stock in the herd.

 

[sidjon]

Vary in size from huge with an arse like Kim Kardashian (sp?) to just a bit bigger than our biggest Jerseys. Feet are ok and they have no problems calving (yet). Yield over 9000 with more than acceptable solids.
Settled down from being a bit jumpy (they came from a Danish Tie stall system) to being a bit dopey/docile now - you have to nudge them to move them and we are happy with them. To make them smaller, though, we are crossing to Jersey

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This produces a calf more like 50 kg at birth although we do some pures to keep stock in the herd.

Are the Danish poorer at calving ease? Mate has pedigree herd and uses blues over anything he doesn't want to breed from and doesn't seem to have any calving problems. Personally find more calving problems with Angus than the Herefords over our monkey cows.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Will be keeping over 60% pure.
Crossing is about giving us more flex in the milk market ... not everyone wants 10%+ milk solids day in, day out

I do. I could live off the stuff.

 

[Bald Rick]

Are the Danish poorer at calving ease? Mate has pedigree herd and uses blues over anything he doesn't want to breed from and doesn't seem to have any calving problems. Personally find more calving problems with Angus than the Herefords over our monkey cows.

TBH we rarely have to help any cow/heifer calve unless it's a breach or leg back and they are rare. Finger in the air, I would say that we help between 5-10 a year if that and the only time we have had to do any caesarians (other than the occasional blue back in the day) was when we took part in embryo transplants using US Holstein embryos in heifers. Not a success

 

[Bald Rick]

For comparatives, this is a smaller red against a mature 5th lactation Jersey

and this is one of the larger (more of a Holstein head IMO) ones against a 2nd lactation Jersey

 

[cull cows]

 

[cull cows]

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Suckling

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

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She looks a bit too good for that job (although looks can be deceiving)

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

We did.
Bought 15 fresh, dry or in calf heifers about to drop. Got Mark Davis to buy for us as long way to go
Due to land Thursday

Have they landed yet?

 

[Bald Rick]

Have they landed yet?

10pm tonight by the grace of God ..

 

[cull cows]

She looks a bit too good for that job (although looks can be deceiving)

She’s a bad front foot needs culling after rearing calves

 

[ImLost]

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How many are you putting on her?

 

[cull cows]

How many are you putting on her?

Got 3 with 2 calves each on.
The other calf was at the front of the pen eating the cows cake

 

[ImLost]

Got 3 with 2 calves each on.
The other calf was at the front of the pen eating the cows cake

Would be interesting to see updates of how they do