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Update...turns out this whole time we were seeing butter fat and mistaking it for mastitis. It probably didn't hurt for us to treat her, though after speaking with her previous owner, she has had several cows who produce more butter fat in late lactation and will strip like what we've described...

Thank you, very much for all your help and advice. We will finish off this residue cycle and go back to keeping/using milk. We'll be drying her off around early - mid March and will drastically cut her feed back. Looking forward to a new calf from her in late May!

Also, I mis-spoke earlier on the amount of grain....We were feeding the hay + 12-lbs of 12% ration, then went down to 6-lbs. Have gradually gone back up to 9-lbs and have held steady with that. Still only getting about a gallon per day.

Thank you, again for your response! I think that is what has me baffled....her udder isn't hard, red or engorged, not seeing any flakes or long stringy stuff at stripping or floating in the milk or sticking to the bottom of the bucket. The only thing that brought our attention to the possible...

Thank you for all the information and advice! After reviewing your response, we have adjusted some things back down to more fall in line with her lactation stage. We have cut out the 17% dairy feed ration all together and have reduced to 3-lbs of 12% feed at the morning milking while still...

Awesome for you! I have a question for you, maybe you or someone else can assist…I live in S AL (near Mobile) with our Guernsey. She is currently on pasture with free choice dry rye hay all day/night. She is due to calf in late May. We usually give her about 6 lbs of 17% CP dairy ration in the...

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Is that also a horse halter? We have all our on rope halters now, really the only thing we could find for cows. We weren’t sure how horse gear would fit on a cow, didn’t want it to be too small & hurt them.

She’s pretty (it is a she right?), kind of makes me want one. Us that just a halter you have on her to ride? I may try it soon 😀

We offer Rye as free choice to our cows but recently got some good looking Alfalfa from a horse owner out of WI. He gets it shipped down to the FL panhandle and we try to keep a bale of it on hand to offer our dairy girls with their evening concentrates. Agree with trying to link up with a horse...

Welcome! We’re new into milk cows as well…love their personality!

I haven’t, but I was thinking about that the other day. Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks I could…lol Welcome!

Thank you! They are so loving 🥰

The other is a Brown Swiss. I’m currently looking for a good Braunvieh to breed her with. Want to maybe purchase a female when I get some more pasture fenced in.

Have raised a few flocks of chickens, new to cattle. We have 3 cows (and 1 calf for now) with 2 of them being dairy. We learn pretty quickly and love our animals.