JonnyLungs
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Re: My Crossbred Cow Thread....
Thought I'd update this thread with a few three-way crosses. All are Swedish Red-Jersey-Holstein (50% SRB, 25% Jersey, 25% Holstein).
First one is a Peterslund X Paramount X RC Marshall.
Second one is a B Jurist X Paramount X BW Marshall.
Third one is a Peterslund X Paramount X Jasper.
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My Crossbred Cow Thread....
Note the first one of the three is the daughter of the Jersey-Holstein I have on the first page of this thread.
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Re: My Crossbred Cow Thread....
1 of my b jurist heifers
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Re: My Crossbred Cow Thread....
Interestingly enough, the cow I called a crossbreeding failure, quoted below, calved for the second time and has turned into an excellent milker. After topping out at 35 lbs./day as a first calver, her first test in her second lactation yielded 118 lbs. at 26 days in milk. That was good enough for 12th best in our 2nd lactation pen.
I'll be curious to see if this is common with my Monty/Holstein crosses. My latest one is fresh, but she is already at a whopping 40 lbs./day as a first calver.
Oh, and the cow below had a heifer calf from Trump.
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And here is a crossbreeding failure. This is a Montbeliarde X Holstein that has topped out at 35 lbs./day in her first lactation.
This is one where I am choosing to avoid the 3-way cross and go straight back to Holstein for obvious reasons. She is pregnant to Jenny-Lou Shottle Trump and we'll see if we can't get her to improve enough to keep her around.
Experience with other beefy animals has told me that I can make it worthwhile to get offspring provided I use high milk Holstein bulls.
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Such an improvement seems a little odd to me... Wasn't something possibly underlying that she had a problem milking well maybe...?
Do you find the Monties as tall or taller than the Holsteins at all?
It does seem a bit peculiar. My original question was whether there was something environmentally wrong with her, not genetically that didn't allow her to milk. With such a small population of Monty/Holstein crosses in my herd (only three milking now) it's hard to gauge what I've got with them. I can't think of anything that would've held her back health wise in the first lactation as she bred back very easily and put on plenty of weight.
Two of the three Monty/Holsteins I have are about as tall or taller than my Holsteins while the newest fresh one could be described as shorter than the Holsteins, but her dam isn't all that tall either.
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