Chloe, our Jersey milk cow

[Farmer Kitty]

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If you intend to feed them hay and grain then you can get by with a lot less room.

 

[redhen]

thanks farmer kitty..appreciate the help..now..i just wish there was a way to get milk without babies!!..lol...they dont give pregnancy hormone shots by any chance?...

..thanks, Wendy

 

[texaschickmama]

Our cows are totally spoiled and well taken care of. Chloe, 9 mo, and T-Bone, 6 mo. T-Bone is our steer we are raising for beef. They are well taken care of with about 3.5 acres to get their graze on and then they also have access to hay and hey are fed grain every evening.

It was a shocker when we took Chloe to the vet to get her dehorned and vaccinated with bangs. The bill was like $15. Nothing cost that these days. She also had a respir vac and 7 in 1.

Anyway, she is such a joy to have and I love to take care of her. T-Bone is her herdmate for the time being, when we slaughter him we will get another herdmate for her. They do better when there is more than one animal, eat better, and so on.

Is backyardcow a real thing, have to go find out, I know it was a joke a while ago, but I have to go see.

 

[KellyGwen]

I used to have a jersey named Gwen (haha) and she was the sweetest thing! She would lay in the field and I could sit on her like a couch and scratch her ears. She still had her horns and I would stand in front of her and drive her like a motorcycle... Silly, I know.. but she loved the attention (and the scratches and treats). On the other side of the spectrum was her pasture-mate.. an OLD jersey cow who had "been around".. She would kick the heck out of you any chance she got! We had to hobble her to milk her

Poor Gwenny was a first bred heifer and was due to have her first baby when she was out in the field and was struck my lightning...

She was an excellent girl... Hopefully the end was painless

 

[wynedot55]

yes backyard cows is up an running.come join us there.

 

[Fowl-Language]

What a beauty! Love those eyelashes. Thanks for sharing -

 

[mmajw]

We had a great Jersey not too long ago her name was Buck. We could lead her around on a leash. We miss her.
Yours looks great.

 

[dangerouschicken]

OMG THAT IS ONE CUTE COW!

 

[texaschickmama]

Backyardcows is real. It rocks.

 

[Alaskan]

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It so very much depends on many things

1. soils type
2. rain fall
3. current vegetation
4. management practices


So in East Texas you might be able to run a cow on 5 acres, in the hill country it runs about 20 acres for one cow, and then in far west Texas it maybe 40 acres for one cow.

And I am talking your 'standard' cow, which is a dry Hereford of 1,000 pounds.

But even just one ranch (so same rainfall) the soils can greatly effect the cows per acre. Maybe 18 acres for one cow on a good soil type, verses 22 acres per cow for a poor one.

Then there is the question of has the place been so overgrazed that now it is only sticker bushes.

Or, as to management, have you tilled up the entire place, planted grass, and are you now watering the entire place?

Anyway, I never think of 1.5 acres per cow unless we are thinking Kentucky. Of course, if the cow is just sitting on the acreage and you are giving the cow all their feed....well that would be different.