jcb411abuser
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was wondering if anyone had any experiences with dairy breeds other than holstein, at home we will have round 180 holsteins milking over the summer months, milk yield is what most would consider poor 6500ltrs average(if an mri did this people would say she is just a suckler) on round 2-2.5 tonnes of meal per cow. health is extremely poor, herd is being replaced at a rate of >30% per year, we just have enough heifers to keep stationary, we have now bulled with rotbunt and fleckvieh(AI), just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on performance with either of these breeds or any other dairy breed, because we don't quite know what to expect. At the min we just want a healthy fertile cow that produces the same as our holstein and will last to the fourth calf.