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Jersey Cows, Angus Bull?
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JFDairy
Posted 5/4/2025 23:08 (#11214165 - in reply to #11209891)
Subject: RE: Jersey Cows, Angus Bull?


middle TN		When I chose to stop shipping milk in 2018, dairy anything wasn't worth much and neither were weigh cows. I had wound up with a good supply of some really good Angus bulls from a semen tank I had bought off of a neighbor that had gotten out of the registered angus business, so I bred everything A! to Angus. I culled due to age and deep udders in the years between, now only have 2 pure Jerseys that have been bred to beef, a few half breeds, and a few 3/4 Angus/1/4 Jersey that have raised some good calves. The pure Jerseys could milk too much, subject to losing the udders, the half breeds, will milk, but take some feed to raise a good fall born calf without getting pretty thin, they will milk it off their backs if you aren't careful. The 3/4 Angus are what looks to be the sweet-spot, moderate frame, will to milk, and the resulting 7/8 beef calves are pretty much indistinguishable from the full Angus calves I have. I only have a few heifers that are this 7/8 that I plan to wean this week that I want to keep, so it will be a bit before I can say much on how they will do as brood cows. It will work, but the Jerseys will have too much milk if they are fresh in the spring on good grass. I probably should have put at least one bummer calf on each full Jersey along with their own,but my public work schedule didn't allow for the time required to do so. The cull rate on the full Jerseys is probably higher than ideal. I will most likely breed my remaining full Jerseys to sexed Jersey semen this fall, just because I have always had Jerseys, and I would like to keep at least a couple in the works.

Jared in TN
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