Recent content by Theodore W.

I'm just wondering one thing, with horses a good, be it not the best, recipe to raise orphan foals is to bottlefeed them, but to let the rest of the mothering be done by a non-lactating mare with maternal feelings. With horses that helps, would that be possible with cattle too?

Thanks. I might have added that this animal, (well the cow which stood model) is part of the "Holstein"-sisterhood, in a period in which the beef production seemed to be more important for dairy farmers than in other periods. Theodore

All these links are to one statue of what one registry considered more than half a century ago the "ideal cow". Your opinion about the portrayed animal please? (In case you wonder about the environment: The statue has been moved.) http://www.euronet.nl/~rpeters/Panorama ... 00_UM.html...

Youngggun, as a fellow horsey lover I must say that I feel a bit sorry for the loss of old Silver. However, what are you gonna do with Silver's body now? It doesn't matter anything to Silver anymore, whether you would eat his body, whether you would feed it to dogs, sell it to zoo, give it to...

No., I'm in the Netherlands, stuff like location and time zone got lost in a li'l problem with registering. Should be OK now. Tried asking the USDA

Done that... found some interesting stuff, but nothing like a list of contents of their publications from the Civil war era. They seem quite unwilling to claim responsibility for the naming of the Holstein... Theodore

Oh, that's quite well possible. W.W. Chenery himself told here that he once shipped 8 sheep at Rotterdam for Boston, and that in Boston he had 17 sheep arriving: http://www.handweaving.net/DAItemDetail ... emID=3924# (I guess the ancestry of this breed he gives is rather made up, however.)...

If you mean with "us" those people responsible for that OSU- breeds website: Aye. I mean trying to explain a pied coat developped after the introduction of some foreign cattle between 300 and 200 years ago by events from 2,000 years ago... And in a way that could never lead to true breeding pied...

Thanks Dun Educated folks? It has to be understood by people in Oklahoma State University-country. :( But the problem is that I deal with how the that specific coatpattern came from Jylland by Friesland (and Holland and Wesermarsch) to America, so I cannot use any geographic qualifier to...

OK, the factual question I have is: Does anybody know whether the Annual report of the Department of Agriculture 1864 is really the publication with the article by Winthrop W. Chenery about Dutch cattle with Holstein in the title? Where did the other thousand imports come from? From the...

Ouch, that's one of those things you get when trying to describe part of what happened in a five language area during the best part of a thousand years (milking cows, fattening cattle, transporting cattle, breeding cattle, selling cattle, fighting cattle diseases, breeding horses, selling...

Please, please, please... I'm writing a nice little article about cattle (Holstein and such). Now can somebody help me? I have no idea how I can make it understandable to a "normal American." I really need help. I mean: What is the best way to describe the Holstein "robe"? (I know ways, I do...

I'm no cattle man,but I happen to be a biologist knowing some things about inbreeding and its dangers. but well it's hard to say how bad inbreeding depression is in practice in general. That really depends on your actual case, but common aspects are: 0 1. Reduced fertility or fertility...