Meuse Rhine Issle

[holywell farmer]

Smaller

Jersey are small breed of cow but give good yields,

 

[DRC]

The old man was into this sort of stuff: MRI, montbelliarde and rotebund (rotebunte?). My opinion was that if you’re going to milk a cow then get a milking cow. Those breeds didn’t do anything particularly well.

Neighbour milks a big herd of montbelliarde, but they are organic. Has some cracking beef cattle as well. Crosses some with Salers and some with BB and often tops the market. Holsteins have ruined half the beef job unfortunately

 

[mixed farm]

We had 2, one was fat and no good to milk. And the other was worse!

 

[borderterribles]

Neighbour milks a big herd of montbelliarde, but they are organic. Has some cracking beef cattle as well. Crosses some with Salers and some with BB and often tops the market. Holsteins have ruined half the beef job unfortunately

Has Mr B still got my old lorry?

 

[DRC]

Has Mr B still got my old lorry?

They’ve got a lorry. Didn’t know it was once yours

 

[Loner]

 

[borderterribles]

They’ve got a lorry. Didn’t know it was once yours

A DAF, dark green,13 tonner with a 20ft Williams container? I saw it in Shrewsbury a while back and wondered if it was still theirs. Must be getting on for ten years since I sold it.

 

[DRC]

A DAF, dark green,13 tonner with a 20ft Williams container? I saw it in Shrewsbury a while back and wondered if it was still theirs. Must be getting on for ten years since I sold it.

I’m there on Thursday , so will have a look

 

[holywell farmer]

I’m there on Thursday , so will have a look

Any MRI herds in Shropshire

 

[DRC]

Any MRI herds in Shropshire

Not that I know of

 

[holywell farmer]

Not that I know of

Suppose Holstein is cow off choice for your area

 

[DRC]

Suppose Holstein is cow off choice for your area

I would say so, although as I said, one neighbour has montbelliards

 

[salers]

One herd in Llanymynech. Crosses them to a Lim. Fantastic calves, some of the best that come to Oswestry.

 

[holywell farmer]

One herd in Llanymynech. Crosses them to a Lim. Fantastic calves, some of the best that come to Oswestry.

How many are they milking?

 

[salers]

No idea. Just try and buy his calves when he has some in.

 

[M-J-G]

A friend in Somerset used to milk MRI, he bought them from Holland, quite a number of years ago he went back to Holland to buy more and found that many of the breeders had crossed them with Fleckvieh, so he did the same.
After seeing the results he went to Austria and bought a lorry load of Fleckviehs and is now pretty much pure.

 

[multi power]

I used to relief milk a herd of MRI, brilliant cows, milked as well as Friesian types, was a very simple system, they never needed much attention, had really good calves, knacker man didn't do too well out of them

 

[holywell farmer]

I used to relief milk a herd of MRI, brilliant cows, milked as well as Friesian types, was a very simple system, they never needed much attention, had really good calves, knacker man didn't do too well out of them

MRI bulls can be very aggressive

 

[multi power]

MRI bulls can be very aggressive

They can, just like any other bull