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The brown swiss and braunvieh were orginally one dual purpose breed, similar to the shorthorn and milking shorthorn. However, the two breeds have since diverged and become two distinct breeds, the brown swiss selected for dairy and the braunvieh selected for beef. They are now quite different...

I gather than you have grass, but it is all dried up and brown? If this is the case, your cattle can get the energy they need from the grass, but not the protein. Therefore, you will do better to suppliment protein than add grain. Feeding grain will actually reduce the digestibility of the...

Aside from potential bacteria contamination, cows milk is not balanced for human babies. All mammal's milk has different proportions of fat, protein, and lactose. Human milk is very different in composition from cows milk. This is why it's recommended that children be fed only either breast...

You've got a nice start. Here's my favorite livestock breeds website: www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds You'll find TONS of breeds there, though many are not very common here in the states. A breed that is making a showing in carcass contests here in the states is the Braunvieh. Other fairly...

Cattle prices in general have gone up since we bought our last cow, but we were able to purchase the cows right from the dairy. This was nice because they had milking, breeding, calving, and health records of every cow. Might be worth checking out if you were interested in a Jersey, anyway.

I'm a real Jersey fan. We've owned three different Jersey nurse cows and they were all easy to handle...big babies in fact. Their milk is very rich and they make more than most single families can use in a day. We'd raise several calves at a time on them and the were wonderful mothers, always...