what do you put on your jerseyx heifers?

whelan1

had a fella looking to buy an angus bull to put on jex heifers, kept asking about calving ease, these are canadian angus... wants a gaurantee that they are easy calving, now we have zero experience with jerseys so what do ye think, would canadian angus be too hard on jex?

lakill Farm

bought a bull aax calf out of a jersey the other day. 2 weeks old and he is a hardy little lad. Guarantee him nothing.

royalmeath

I never kept jerseys myself but my father used to tell me that they would calf anything without much trouble

tismesoitis

royalmeath wrote: »

I never kept jerseys myself but my father used to tell me that they would calf anything without much trouble

+1 when we started using belgian blue back in d late 80s we were told that jersey cows were great to calve them

6480

royalmeath wrote: »

I never kept jerseys myself but my father used to tell me that they would calf anything without much trouble

thats very true i have only one only one and she has no bother calving bf bulls

bbam

whelan1 wrote: »

had a fella looking to buy an angus bull to put on jex heifers, kept asking about calving ease, these are canadian angus... wants a gaurantee that they are easy calving, now we have zero experience with jerseys so what do ye think, would canadian angus be too hard on jex?

Feck him what does he want?
You can't guarantee him 100% he'll have hassle free calving.. What if he feeds the bejasus out of them right up to the end... Where would the guarantee stand then??
Surely you can reassure him the Angus will be as good as possible but it would be hard to give anything stronger..

bogman_bass

I have no experience of crossbreds but worked on a purebred farm on Jersey Island for a summer.

The purebreds have huge pelvises for the size of them. I presume that would carry through to the crossbreds

green_island

whelan1 wrote: »

had a fella looking to buy an angus bull to put on jex heifers, kept asking about calving ease, these are canadian angus... wants a gaurantee that they are easy calving, now we have zero experience with jerseys so what do ye think, would canadian angus be too hard on jex?

a jex will calve an angus easier than a pure holstien will , the jersey gene reduces the size of everything , jerseys also have a disproportionatley wide pelvis

green_island

bogman_bass wrote: »

I have no experience of crossbreds but worked on a purebred farm on Jersey Island for a summer.

The purebreds have huge pelvises for the size of them. I presume that would carry through to the crossbreds

jersey island jerseys are the smallest strain of all