Brown Swiss x Holstein Crossbred Twins

The twins had just turned 8 years of age in early August. Their sire is a Brown Swiss bull named R Hart Christians Ace and the dam is Holstein sired by Tesk-Holm Valiant Rockie. The smaller cow has produced 140,000 lbs of milk in 6 lactations and the larger cow produced 150,000 of milk in 5 lactations. Heterosis plays a big part in their excellent health and longevity. Neither cow has ever had mastitis, ketosis, a displacement, or any other health problem.

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[MrKallpasapa]

Verdaderamente, el hombre es el rey de los animales, pues su brutalidad supera a la de éstos.

Leonardo Da Vinci.

[cowman1970]

@MrKallpasapa C'est la vie s'en occuper

[denie178]

eh just one litlle thing but i find it rather disturbing that you cut their tails short. i no some ppl do this to keep down bacteria 4 mastits when milkin etc. but i think cows got a tail 4 a reason swatting flies and the lies.. do u not agree?

[cowman1970]

We don't cut them. We use a castrating ring and they just fall off after a few weeks. We do this to help keep the cows and their enviornment clean. Also for worker convenience as people don't like to get swatted with a soiled tail. We don't have fly problems due to our confinement system. The younger animals that we have on pasture during the warmer months keep their tails. With the amount of work that I have tail docking isn't a priority and I don't do it that often.

[acatz29]

They sure r pretty. I show a registered brown swiss heifer named Maisy in 4-H and my brother shows one named Dixie. I love them both to piece and the're like family. I can't wait till they have calves. They r bred to a registered Angus bull because we have always had beef cows and they didn't stick when we tried sexed semen from a registered brown swiss bull. We will hopefully AI them with sexed semen next time. I really want them to have brown swiss calves next time...

[fattigbonddrang]

@cowman1970 here in sweden its elegal to cut the tails short. in stabels where the animals are walking free its tend to be clean. in my experiance anyway. in stabels where cows are bound there are a thread from the ceiling thats holds the tail up one decimeter. (4 inch) this cows lakteted good. one i have worked with produced around 20metric tuns in hers 305day period. but she did not live long that one. to infertile.

[cowman1970]

Statistically, 85 percent of heifers twin to a bull won't be any good.

[cowman1970]

Not sure why he would think that twins heifers would be reproductively no good. We had a set of triplets with 1 male and 2 females. The one heifer was a freemartin and the other was good.

[international660]

I have never heard of that before, Although if there was a third male embryo that died early enough to not harm the heifers they may carry that freemartin gene.

[banjodan99]

Nice critters. Ever heard of twin heifer calves not being able to breed? (I know that this happens with heifer/bull twins). I know a guy with a pair of twin hereford heifer calves that he's raising for beef because he's convinced that they won't breed.