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O'Reilly

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One of the best avaiable american bulls now is calmart pilgrim genus have him he has a huge plus for fertility.I wouldnt dream of useing pure american there too frail but when crossed to a jersey with strength you get a good animal with milk.
Been told pilgrim isn't available any more. A handful of conventional straws, but I don't want jersey bull calves.
 
Huzar has a broken ligament is that not a problem?

I'd say it was a relatively small negative on his linear. You'll never breed a show cow out of a Danish bull. My cows are still doing <5000l so it wouldn't put me off.
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farmboy

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Not had much experience of jerseys, what would be a typical yield and constituents for autumn calved, semi TMR in winter and grazing/cake March-October?? Realise it’s a bit of an how’s long a piece of string question! Friesians on our system probably doing 7600 at 4.2 and 3.4 ish
 

Bald Rick

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Anglesey
Not had much experience of jerseys, what would be a typical yield and constituents for autumn calved, semi TMR in winter and grazing/cake March-October?? Realise it’s a bit of an how’s long a piece of string question! Friesians on our system probably doing 7600 at 4.2 and 3.4 ish

You can manipulate her diet to contract to an extent depending what you want to feed/price of inputs/forage quality BUT you don't get the double whammy of litres & solids.

As a guide, we are doing roughly 22 litres at 6 & 4 averaged over the whole year but that can vary from solids near or over 11% and litres at 18 or solids at 9% and litres at 25. Depends on herd ave days in milk and especially forage quality. The latter is absolute key
 

Homesy

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North West Devon
I'm looking forward to milking some Connacht daughters next spring. He's an ambreed bull and the last unsexed bull I used. CRV ambreed have some good bulls, I with they would sort themselves out and get some sexed. View attachment 979026
They have got some sexed Jersey. In the back of the grass fed catalogue. I think that they are American bred though. Labelled SIRYX
 

Llmmm

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The crv kiwi bulls are far better than the bloody LIC things
Any proof of this on the nz proofs a bull like connact is minus 0.9 for stature minus 40kg liveweight minus 900 ltrs lic have bull better than this ive only used small numbers of lic none milking yet so none to compare
 

Llmmm

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Remember those are across breed indexes so pretty much all the Jersey's will be minus on stature and milk volume.
I realise that but look at bull gallivant lic bull im not saying im right but he looks a decent bull theres also bulls there like oasis ,flint they have good proofs
 

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