This farm in central Wisconsin is the best looking housed system I have seen and the cows looked great.
The genetics in this herd was very interesting. Quite a few crossbred cows both Jersey and Scandinavian Reds over the Holsteins. Now they are going back to straight bred Holsteins after years of breeding for longevity, fertility and production their style of black and whites are out doing the crossbreds. A lot of genomic work is being done on this farm and the herd has a very high genomic ranking. This isn't a great photo and I'm not usually into cow looks but the width of the front legs on these cows was something I have never seen before!
OK so I had a very cowy day.
This girl is sired by a South Gippsland jersey bull, Khune.
It is impossible to get perspective on the size of this stack of corn silage but it was huge.
South Gippsland to the world! Pretty impressive. Enjoy the cows & enjoy NY!! Gill
ReplyDeletehi graeme will be looking forward to seeing what you found out about those animals, just to let you know did a pasture walk today cover at 2060 and leaf emergant 13 days pretty good autumn hey
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You're allowed to have "cowy days" - you're a dairy farmer!
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