Post by ozarkjewels on Jan 7, 2012 12:17:25 GMT -5
I haven't had time to be online much lately but had to share this. I posted a while back that my parents and four youngest siblings had (hopefully temporarily) moved back to Ohio to help care for Grandma after we lost Grandpa. Dad is working on the road all over, and Mom is busy with the kids and Grandma. They took our last two home Jerseys(April and Jasmine) with them for milk. Between them and my aunt and uncle and cousins they will easily drink all the milk from two cows. I have been hoping when they freshen, I might be able to get any heifers that were born. Both were bred when they left here, Jasmine due for January, and April for much later in the year. Jasmine bred to a Jersey bull who is known for throwing white, and April to my Milking Shorthorn bull, Ace.
I wanted to get some of those same genetics back here with me. We have had those lines of Jerseys since I was five and I learned to milk on Jasmine and Aprils great-great-great Grandmother when I was seven.
Jasmine freshened on New Years Eve with TWIN HEIFERS. Both with lots of white, both healthy, and Jasmine did great.
While I had lots of twins born in the dairy herd, our home Jerseys have never had twins, in all of 24 years.
And I've NEVER had twin heifers born before!
My Mom, Aunt and youngest brother Matthew were home alone with the cows that weekend, as my cousins, 3 other siblings, Uncle, and Dad were all here in Missouri helping take down and move my big goat barn. They sent me these pictures taken soon after the heifers were dry and had their first meal.
I wanted to get some of those same genetics back here with me. We have had those lines of Jerseys since I was five and I learned to milk on Jasmine and Aprils great-great-great Grandmother when I was seven.
Jasmine freshened on New Years Eve with TWIN HEIFERS. Both with lots of white, both healthy, and Jasmine did great.
While I had lots of twins born in the dairy herd, our home Jerseys have never had twins, in all of 24 years.
And I've NEVER had twin heifers born before!
My Mom, Aunt and youngest brother Matthew were home alone with the cows that weekend, as my cousins, 3 other siblings, Uncle, and Dad were all here in Missouri helping take down and move my big goat barn. They sent me these pictures taken soon after the heifers were dry and had their first meal.