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SW Ohio | Milk is higher in protein too, the main reason for better cheese yields.
I sold my Jersey herd a decade ago but I had many head over 1000#, actually it was my average wt., I had some over 1200 and one "horse" (that was her barn name) that was 1400# at peak.
We usually put a barren heifer in the freezer but once in a while raised a steer, all good eating, just lower yield than a beef animal.
Sold my bull calves anywhere I could, but for a while they all went to one guy, he raised one as a pet and treated it better than most house dogs, he said it got up to 1500# but not sure how old it was then(steer).
Trend in dairy breeding since the adoption of A.I. has always been to (perhaps unintentionally) select for larger frame size, cows just got bigger and bigger. | |
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Never realized you could feed a Jersey steer
