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[L&Jfarms]

Has anyone here ever bred a jersey with a angus cow?? I'm thinking of buying a few straws of sexed jersey seemen so that i get a girl, but what i want to know is, How would there milk be? Would they produce alot? How big might they get? Would this be a good idea?
Anyone have any pictures?

[copperhead46]

I didn't know there was such a thing as sexed semen. You should do just fine breding your angus to a Jersey, should get enough milk for a small family. It will either be the size of your bull or cow, or somewhere inbetween.
P.J.

[haypoint]

I'd be happier with a Jersey calf than a half beef half milk calf.

This proposed breeding hopefully will get you a less beefy calf. Being raised by your Angus, I'd expect she'll develop the behavior of momma. While there are exceptioons, i haven't been around Angus cows that I'd want to set a milk stool down beside.

My opinion is that you should review the insemenation options in your breeders catalog (Select Sires is a good one) and select an Angus sire that is strong where your Angus cow is weak and breed her.


If you want a family milk cow, buy one. Jersey is my choice.

[Madsaw]

Yes there is such thing as sexed semen. but, not a total chance of a heifer. My opion on crossing a jersey and a angus. You might get teh meanest SOB you ever will find. It seems like sometimes jersey crosses can be nasty. I could just imagine a jersey and angus. As or angus holsteins are rank.
I am with haypoint find a good cow to start with.
Bob

[ozark_jewels]

While I LOVE Jerseys, I have owned two Jersey/Angus cows that were great. Both were very good milkers, giving 3-4 gallon a day and were not mean at all. Also threw a very nice freezer calf bred back to an Angus every year.

But these were out of Jersey cows bred to Angus bulls.

A less than tame Angus cow raising my future milk cow?? I wouldn't be thrilled with the idea. Maybe if your Angus cow was really tame......

Otherwise, I'd say you would be *well* ahead to buy a Jersey.
If you really want a Jersey/Angus cross, they are available sometimes from farmers using an Angus bull over his dairy herd. But not too common.

[deineria]

I've seen Jersey/Angus crosses, but I do not know if they were from Angus cows or not.

On the sexed semen mention, I plan to do this also for our heifer later on. I thought the stats were around 90% I believe for a heifer. . . but maybe I am mistaken.

[francismilker]

The only way I'd cross the two expecting a future milker would be if I was going to bottle or bucket raise the calf. If you let a pasture raised angus cow raise her calf even if you get them in the lot everyday, you're still going to be taming a wild cow to milk when the time comes.

That cross does make a good milker for a family though. And as Ozarkjewels said, if you breed them back to a beef bull every year they raise a fine calf for the freezer.

I should have some next year out of my jersey cows. I'm pretty sure at this point that the yearling angus I've been feeding out to put on my beef cows in the lease pasture has done a Hudini on me and jumped the fence to get in with the milk cows a night or two. I'm not sure how they do it, but it has happened a couple of times despite him being inside a pipe corral that's 5' high! lol........the price of love is pretty steep.