Day: 19 July 2010

Marglyn Action Mervyn

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On meeting up with Lyndon Cleggett in Vancouver, my second question was if he had any Mervyn daughters in milk (He did not), the first question was whether he was happy with the Boskenna June Royal Oak daughters whose semen he had managed to get imported into Australia after seeing Boskenna June in the UK at the 2004 WGCF Conference. He was milking about 10 of them and was generally pleased with them but had a concern about front teat placement (too wide, a problem for the breed in every country that I have visited).

The Perfect World

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 I am delighted that there have been some “comments” made as a result of the article about the Guernsey World Conference and thank you to those who made them. This website is open to anyone interested in Guernseys and the more dialogue the better.

Mike Cox in his inimitable way has suggested that all maiden heifers should be mated to the best young bulls and quotes the Dutch method whereby all 2nd calvers are so treated. The Dutch dairy industry are much better organised than we are in the UK. The Government subsidize the data collection for all cattle species and both vets and inseminators are required by law to report all of their interventions to the database.

REGARDING COMMENTS

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