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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1743303" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I wouldn't touch 2 good jerseys like that with a milking shorthorn bull. But I have had about 15 different shorthorns over the last many years and every one has been a dud, or a bit#h, or something else. From not much milk, to not breeding back, to having weak crappy calves.... a few were sale barn cows, several were bought off farm... couple were 2nd calf and 2 were 1st calf heifers. I think I am just not supposed to have shorthorns... </p><p>Either breed them AI to jersey sexed semen if a replacement is wanted... or use a good angus or even whatever "better bull" he gets to breed his beef cows to.... Mine have nice calves bred to our angus bulls... and the females make good cows to take a 2nd calf most time and let them run with them... by the 3rd or 4th generation of replacement heifers, you never know they had some jersey in the background... but they milk just a little better....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1743303, member: 25884"] I wouldn't touch 2 good jerseys like that with a milking shorthorn bull. But I have had about 15 different shorthorns over the last many years and every one has been a dud, or a bit#h, or something else. From not much milk, to not breeding back, to having weak crappy calves.... a few were sale barn cows, several were bought off farm... couple were 2nd calf and 2 were 1st calf heifers. I think I am just not supposed to have shorthorns... Either breed them AI to jersey sexed semen if a replacement is wanted... or use a good angus or even whatever "better bull" he gets to breed his beef cows to.... Mine have nice calves bred to our angus bulls... and the females make good cows to take a 2nd calf most time and let them run with them... by the 3rd or 4th generation of replacement heifers, you never know they had some jersey in the background... but they milk just a little better.... [/QUOTE]
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