Jersey Steer Calf

[KYErik]

I was raised around angus cattle and showed an angus heifer back when I was in 4H (dad and I had to train her to lead which was a BIG production). A few years ago I got a jersey milk cow. I was amazed at how gentle she was. She had never worn a halter but she hardly struggled at all when it was first put on her- and it just took a little tugging to teach her to lead. Not sure if all jerseys are that calm and docile, but I was impressed with how easy going she was.

 

[prichard]

Interesting. I never even thought about raising dairy breeds for eating. It also never crossed my mind what you do with the boy dairy cattle. And what they would taste like. I see them for sale all the time, but just dismissed them because they are dairy cattle. Now I'm feeling really silly!!!!

Same here. I spent a lot of time around dairy farmers in WI and never thought about it.

 

[grsthegreat]

McDonalds uses mostly dairy beef.... if that means anything.

 

[ultrarunner]

Mom's side are Dairy farmers going back generations...

A few week ago my brother got a 3 week and 5 week old calves... girl and a boy.

The 4H farmer he is friends with brought them over to the Christmas Tree Farm and they have been a huge hit with the kids/families buying trees.

The boy is like a big brown puppy... very attentive and love to be petted...

Farm bought him at auction only a few days old for $25... no other bids.

He is now 7 weeks and likes a mixture of formula, grass and hay... loves grass the most.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I just picked this guy up today, it's a red Angus and jersey cross about 8 months old steer and around 400lbs

Jersey steers and bulls can be a bit more aggressive than beef breeds in my very limited experience

 

[Bird]

I was raised around angus cattle and showed an angus heifer back when I was in 4H (dad and I had to train her to lead which was a BIG production). A few years ago I got a jersey milk cow. I was amazed at how gentle she was. She had never worn a halter but she hardly struggled at all when it was first put on her- and it just took a little tugging to teach her to lead. Not sure if all jerseys are that calm and docile, but I was impressed with how easy going she was.

My dad bought a Jersey milk cow named Popeye when I was 5 years old. She was just a big pet for me and dad, but mother hated that cow because the cow always wanted to fight her for reasons unknown. Dad talked to the guy he bought Popeye from and the guy said the only thing he could think of was that Popeye had never seen a woman in skirts. His wife wore pants, which was a bit unusual in those days. My mother always wore a dress. Dad spent one night a week in Oklahoma City on his job, so mother had to do the milking that night and the next morning. So I'd take Popeye in the barn, put the feed in her trough, then stand there by her neck and pet her so she couldn't turn her head and see behind her while mother would come in, sit down, do the milking, get up and leave.

So dad got old Popeye bred to a Jersey bull and got lucky with a heifer calf that we named Sweetpea. As soon as Sweetpea grew up, had her first calf, and became our milk cow, dad sold Popeye, much to mother's relief. And Sweetpea was always a family pet, and a very good milk cow. And of course I took over the job of doing the milking when I was 10.

 

[showcattle]

Interesting. I never even thought about raising dairy breeds for eating. It also never crossed my mind what you do with the boy dairy cattle. And what they would taste like. I see them for sale all the time, but just dismissed them because they are dairy cattle. Now I'm feeling really silly!!!!

All cattle eventually end up as beef cattle.

 

[showcattle]

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I just picked this guy up today, it's a red Angus and jersey cross about 8 months old steer and around 400lbs

Jersey steers and bulls can be a bit more aggressive than beef breeds in my very limited experience

Never ever trust a bull of dairy breeding.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I never trust Bulls period, too many people get killed by them doing unexpected things.

I bought a bull calf cross and pinned him in a stall one day, he wasn't having that, broke the door in two and escaped.

I was pissed but previous owner built the door with nails so it wasn't hard to put back together, I reinforced it and added screws.

I heard a story of the same scenario only bigger bull and a guy pinned under the door on the other side, trampled by the bull and killed

 

[Bird]

I never trust Bulls period, too many people get killed by them doing unexpected things.

When I was a kid, my dad would not permit me to be afraid of any animal except bulls. His best friend, who worked Guernsey dairies all his life except for a hitch in the SeaBees during WWII, was almost killed, permanently disabled by a huge Guernsey bull. A few years ago, I was helping a neighbor branding cattle, and a big Black Angus bull went right on through the old squeeze chute we were using. It's a wonder I wasn't seriously injured when that bull busted that old squeeze chute.