Awesome!!!!! All of my cows are finally pregnant (go Milky Way—you da MAN). Over the course of the summer, they’ve been in various different pastures, but now that we’re having to feed them hay again (no rain, big pain), I realize how happy it makes me to have them all together (it’s a first). I love witnessing their little interactions, their “community.”
From left to right: Bo Jangles (mini-Jersey youngster bull), Emma (mid-size Jersey female), Milky Way (mini-Jersey bull), Etta Jane (mini-Jersey youngster female), Maizy (full-size Jersey female), Chocolate (full-size Jersey female), and Sally O’Malley (mini-Jersey female).
Emma and Maizy are the two we’re milking on a daily basis. In addition to selling milk, we’re going to start selling feta cheese and butter. Maizy is due on or around my birthday, so Kim came up with the name Serenta (if it’s a girl). Sesenta means 60 in Spanish, the number I’ll turn next year. Replace the s with an r and you have Serenta.
Any other names? We have four babies coming.
Did you know cows go into estrus every 21 days (roughly) and have a 9-month pregnancy (roughly)?
Happy girls make creamy milk!! They look so contented in the late summer pastures and sun. Maybe one baby name could be Hershey if she is born with the darker colored hair?
Love, love, love Hershey. Brilliant. Double girly: Her and She.
Sweet cornstalks … … our horses love them too. Jersey cows are soooo pretty and sweet. My friend, Anita, has a purebred piebald heifer. I didn’t know that they can be ‘pintos’.
Names? Hmmmmmmmm…
Ivanhoe D’Idaho (obviously a bull 🙂
Mia Mocha
Cocoa Chanel
Lucy Latte`
Moolin Rouge
Boogedy Beauvine
HAYley Milks
Butterfly
Buttercup
Louise-y Lamour
EmmyLoo Moo
MooPoo Gaipan
MooFly Pie
Herdy Gertie
Carmel
BuhBuh LaBoeuf
Peaches En’Creme
Meadow Muffin
Tater The Rumenator
Eliza Moolittle
~Shery J
Leave it to Shery! Now we have all the names we’ll ever need. I nearly peed my pants I love these so much:) Ivanhoe D’Idaho!!!!!!
Are the mini-jersey breed also used for milk? And beef? I have been wondering what mini-breeds provide.
Yes for milk. That’s why we have them. For a family, it’s the right amount of milk–not too much. And yes, for beef, but not as beefy big as say an Angus. I’ve tried other breeds and like Jerseys best for milking.
Thank you!