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• Jersey cow v’s Holstein Friesian cow.

  Visited a farm outside Ballyduff, County Waterford where a client posed a question to me should he go to cross breeding with the herd? He had been drawn down the route of cross-breeding but convinced that a first cross could be beneficial but that in... Posted Mar 24 2011, 10:37 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: holstein cows, cross-bred, Jersey cow [Edit Tags]

• Sexed Jersey Semen

  Visited a client outside Clonakilty using sexed Jersey semen to produce cross-bred heifers from his Holstein heifers which were not sufficiently well grown to fit into an early Spring calving grass based system. He finds that the Jerseys have very easy... Posted Oct 21 2010, 01:29 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: holstein cows, cross-bred, easy calving, Sexed Jersey semen [Edit Tags]

• Cross-breeding increases highbrid figure and fertility in animals

  Visited a client outside County Westmeath earlier with a pedigree charolais herd inter-mixed with suckler cows which were cross-bred between Charolais, Simmental, Limousin and white heads. Noticeable feature was that the level of fertility was far greater... Posted Sep 06 2010, 12:38 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: fertility in animals, cross-bred, highbrid figure [Edit Tags]