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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1360667" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Neat to know about the fresians and the caesin A2 thing. There have been some studies on it, of course they are not "conclusive" but it seems that there is alot of lactose intolerance and I think there might be something to the switch to confinement and silage feeding etc and away from pasture/grass based dairies. And the possible influence with diabetes and other things. The genetic pool here is getting so inbred, the guernseys are awful, but I just put 10 straws of an outcross in my tank to use even though he isn't one of the "better" bulls that select sires has. I am also waiting on a catalog from an independent that carries alot of different "odd" breeds and hope to find some other outcross guernseys, and maybe some other colored breeds. I like the dutch belted cows and they are supposed to be good graziers. There are so few of the guernseys that they are actually on the endangered watch list of the American Livestock Breeds Conservatory. Maybe one day the semen will be in demand as Elevation is here now. And people find out that I have jerseys and guernseys and they are looking for family milk cows. That is what I hope to be able to do, provide some in the future when I retire from my milk testing job in a couple of years.</p><p> There are several purebred Hol breeders actually looking for some of the older bulls as they are thoroughly fed up with everything based on these new genomics, with studs flushing heifers to these young bulls and all, and no proof that the bulls daughters have done/will do anything. It's all "on paper". Then when these daughters come into the milking herd ,they are nothing special and the bulls disappear from the studs. Our newest catalog of the "component breeds",; as anything not holstein is now classified, doesn't even give any lactation records on the dams or daughters, it has all these % comparisons and I am honestly going to have to learn how to read this stuff because I don't understand it at all.</p><p>I enjoy hearing from you and some of the differences from here to NZ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1360667, member: 25884"] Neat to know about the fresians and the caesin A2 thing. There have been some studies on it, of course they are not "conclusive" but it seems that there is alot of lactose intolerance and I think there might be something to the switch to confinement and silage feeding etc and away from pasture/grass based dairies. And the possible influence with diabetes and other things. The genetic pool here is getting so inbred, the guernseys are awful, but I just put 10 straws of an outcross in my tank to use even though he isn't one of the "better" bulls that select sires has. I am also waiting on a catalog from an independent that carries alot of different "odd" breeds and hope to find some other outcross guernseys, and maybe some other colored breeds. I like the dutch belted cows and they are supposed to be good graziers. There are so few of the guernseys that they are actually on the endangered watch list of the American Livestock Breeds Conservatory. Maybe one day the semen will be in demand as Elevation is here now. And people find out that I have jerseys and guernseys and they are looking for family milk cows. That is what I hope to be able to do, provide some in the future when I retire from my milk testing job in a couple of years. There are several purebred Hol breeders actually looking for some of the older bulls as they are thoroughly fed up with everything based on these new genomics, with studs flushing heifers to these young bulls and all, and no proof that the bulls daughters have done/will do anything. It's all "on paper". Then when these daughters come into the milking herd ,they are nothing special and the bulls disappear from the studs. Our newest catalog of the "component breeds",; as anything not holstein is now classified, doesn't even give any lactation records on the dams or daughters, it has all these % comparisons and I am honestly going to have to learn how to read this stuff because I don't understand it at all. I enjoy hearing from you and some of the differences from here to NZ. [/QUOTE]
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