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Haha thats a good story, did Jacky ever find out the truth?
No offence, but it ammuses me how some farmers place importance on colour!
Correct me if I am wrong but I dont believe colouration within a breed
alters production or management traits too much??? With the exeption of
extremely white cows, we often cull them as calves as they are more prone to
sunburn and facial exzema in the summers. Unfortunately I caught on that
one of our best families had a tendency to be more than 70% white, so I made
dad keep their calves, and so far we havent had any trouble with that
family! You have probably noticed that there are barely any of those white
looking Holstein-Friesians in NZ! The more black the better, but there is a
rule that a pure Holstein-Friesian must have 4 white feet, a white tip of
the tail, and I think a white patch on her forehead?
Michelle
On 7/2/06, F. W. Owen <fwo@bright.net> wrote:
>
> > fill a barn with I'd have to say Chapel Bank Apache , or more
precisely
> a
> > Apache X Astronaut Cross; but then Citation R Maple made us allot of
> milk
> > too.
>
> Obviously a New Yorker but wonderful choices.
>
> Apache are too speckly for my list but great cows. Citation R Maple...a
> little too small for me. Why didn't you mention Willow? I almost put him
> on
> my list.
>
> Eastern AI (local bull stud out thay way) was so type (conformation)
> phobic
> that New Yorkers were starved for good cows <grin>. This was the
main
> reason
> Curtiss (Breeding Service) was so strong in New York.
>
> The Eastern AI sire committee didn't like 'em unless they sired lots of
> "blow
> bags". Apache and Willow gotin to Eastern by accident and hung on as
> "speciality" sires. Citation R Maple was a New York bull at ABS.
>
> Apache story:
>
> When my wife, Jackie, had her 20 Jerseys mingled in our 300 cow
> confinement
> herd, there was a time when she was making her own butter.
>
> This was possible because we were milking into weigh jars in a double
> three
> side-opener. I just needed to tell the young woman milking at night to
> save
> milk from the Jerseys for butter. She could easily drain the weigh jars
> into
> tote buckets for Jackie to churn.
>
> One evening, I forgot to tell the girl milking to save the Jersey milk.
>
> I went out about 11 PM to try and correct my error. We quickly realized
> that
> all the Jerseys had already been through and gone.
>
> What to do? Neither of us wanted to disappoint Jackie.
>
> Thinking quickly, we figured that we had at least 30 unmilked Chapel-Bank
> Apaches yet to come in that night.
>
> I just told the young lady milking that night to save milk from the
> "Speckled"
> cows until she had enough for Jackie.
>
> We knew that if they were speckled, that they had to be Apaches.
>
> And of course I knew that our Apaches averaged higher fat test than
> Jackie's
> Jerseys, over 4.6% at that time.
>
> Next day, Jackie knew there was a difference but never knew why. She was
> beaming with pleasure. "Wow, my Jerseys are really testing! Look at
all
> this butter!! and the milk wasn't even as yellow as usual!!"
>
> We actually had a Apache (that I bought out of the New York State Calf
> Sale)
> that scored Excellent and made 5 1000# fat records with a lifetime test of
> 5.2. She never really milked enough to suit me but she was a little small
> so
> I forgave her the lack of volume.
>
> --
> Kindest regards,
>
> ========================
> F. W. Owen
> Owenlea Holsteins
> 9430 Spencer Road
> Homerville, Ohio 44235
> e-mail fwo@bright.net
> home page http://www.bright.net/~fwo
> voice & fax 330.625.2369
> cell 330.635.2287
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