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Nothing...but I am open to offers!
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40 Homebred cows Annual Average 11009 4.07 3.07 (2X)
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12/11/2008, 21:46
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Re: Local daughter pictures
Careful now or we may take back the karma
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12/11/2008, 22:28
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...I think that I would rather have the money!
--- Crosshutton Holsteins
40 Homebred cows Annual Average 11009 4.07 3.07 (2X)
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12/11/2008, 23:49
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Re: Local daughter pictures
quote: howie32 wrote:
quote: rossymons wrote:
Being able to breed commercially viable animals is the future of the Holstein breed.
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Trying to figure out why I should be breeding for commercial cows when I don't have a commercial setup. Isn't there still a place for the non-commercial cow?
I posted this in another thread, but it could equally serve as an answer to howie:
To me it is vitally important that as holstein breeders we address the reasons why so many commercial farmers feel they have to move away from the Holstein to get the durability they need. We should never forget that the commercial farmer is our market in the end and that for a Lila Z to make in excess of $1,000,000 it needs thousands of commercial farmers to pay an extra few dollars per straw of semen or a couple of hundred extra dollars/pounds for a good heifer, which feeds back through AI companies, bull contracts, embryo contracts etc. to make these elite individuals at the top of the pyramid worth so much.
If we lose that connection with our ultimate market, then our role as breeders is defunct and the value of our cows will eventually disappear.
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smous
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Re: Local daughter pictures
Group of 7 first calvers that took second place in local herd competition. Two cows closest to the camera are Duce daughters, there is another Duce daughter, a Potter, a Spock and a Donor in the group. Not bad for a bunch for a bunch of health trait bulls I thought.
Eight farms entered, contestants had to show a first calf group, second calf group, a progeny group (max one per semen company per farm) and the oldest cow on the farm (great addition to the competition, the two oldest cows were 14 years old, one was in her thirteenth lactation.)
Progeny groups on show were Tulip x2, Tobasco x 2 (local Tulip son,) Sabi (local Rudolph son,) Burt (local Juror son)Ninefold, Aeroline, Export, Donor, Revenue (ABS Rudolph son) and Ito. The Ito daughter group was both the judges choice and the farmers popular vote. Second place was the Revenue group.
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28/11/2008, 1:51
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Nice heifers, amazingly uniform colouring for such a selection of bulls, they all look like donors.
Were the heifers supposed to be grazing that grass in the foreground?
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28/11/2008, 12:59
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smous
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Colour markings were a bit of a luck, made for a very uniform and eye catching group, we did toss another Donor who was a little frailer than the rest of the group, she might have stayed if she wasnt broken coloured. Same herd exhibited the winning second calver group and the Ito daughter group. A Patron Sabre in their second calf group was judged best udder of the day and Reserve Champion cow of the day.
Champion cow of the day went to another breeder, she was a magnificent 9th calver entered in the oldest cow in the herd competition, sired by a herd bull. He also won best first calver group anchored by some tremendous Lynch daughters.
Patch of kikuyu grass was mown for the day and small temporary camps set up with electric poly wire for ease of viewing. Turn out was excellent with 80 people attending.
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28/11/2008, 15:18
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She only gets better eh? What the MGS of the cow on top? The bottom cow is more typical of the Oman's i have, more dairy quality maybe. Good feet and legs on that cow.
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the MGS is Morty
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17/12/2009, 3:45
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