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what is your favorite dairy breed, and why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 809881" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I voted brown swiss, I'm biased by being swiss of course, but they are a good dual purpose breed.. we had a guernsey who was good, but a fussy eater, and she'd walk faster than you could run, neighbors have a jersey who is a sweet cow (jersey eyes?), but some old friends of ours had some that were some sort of nasty.. On a dairy production basis, I can't say much, if you want production out of any breed, you have to give them so much extra grain, etc I don't see the point in it.. What is the average productive lifespan of the cows you folks have?... I once heard that the average productive lifespan of a commercial cow was 3 to 4 years... I don't know what has happened to brown swiss from back in the day, but in switzerland there were lots of 20 year old cows... in my experience, despite total milk production dropping as they get older, the quality of the milk gets better</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 809881, member: 9096"] I voted brown swiss, I'm biased by being swiss of course, but they are a good dual purpose breed.. we had a guernsey who was good, but a fussy eater, and she'd walk faster than you could run, neighbors have a jersey who is a sweet cow (jersey eyes?), but some old friends of ours had some that were some sort of nasty.. On a dairy production basis, I can't say much, if you want production out of any breed, you have to give them so much extra grain, etc I don't see the point in it.. What is the average productive lifespan of the cows you folks have?... I once heard that the average productive lifespan of a commercial cow was 3 to 4 years... I don't know what has happened to brown swiss from back in the day, but in switzerland there were lots of 20 year old cows... in my experience, despite total milk production dropping as they get older, the quality of the milk gets better [/QUOTE]
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