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Holsteins or Jerseys? Pros and Cons?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunny Do Ranch" data-source="post: 510742" data-attributes="member: 6042"><p>I started to get into this this year. I use nurse cows. I had 20 over 6 months and lost 8. They were treated for scours and such and other things. I had the most luck with calves that were aggressive and over 2 weeks old. We have access to holstein bulls calves for fairly cheap or free so we figured we would try it. It was fun but a lot of work. Up where we are holsteins are worth more than jersey's to sell. You can't even give a jersey bull calf away. We will do it again at some point this year. Right now we are waiting for the neighbors to calve out their beef cows because if something happens they want us to raise the calf for them on on jersey's. So its lots of hand milking for me right now. I have run out of freezer space haha.</p><p></p><p>I found that the holstein's are bottemless pitts. They can eat and eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunny Do Ranch, post: 510742, member: 6042"] I started to get into this this year. I use nurse cows. I had 20 over 6 months and lost 8. They were treated for scours and such and other things. I had the most luck with calves that were aggressive and over 2 weeks old. We have access to holstein bulls calves for fairly cheap or free so we figured we would try it. It was fun but a lot of work. Up where we are holsteins are worth more than jersey's to sell. You can't even give a jersey bull calf away. We will do it again at some point this year. Right now we are waiting for the neighbors to calve out their beef cows because if something happens they want us to raise the calf for them on on jersey's. So its lots of hand milking for me right now. I have run out of freezer space haha. I found that the holstein's are bottemless pitts. They can eat and eat. [/QUOTE]
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