Cross-breeding Holstein dairy cows with Jerseys is boosting milk income on Pembrokeshire's spring calving farms. |
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The first Friesians were big milk cows not too different from the Holstein of today, but udders were not so good. |
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Entries have been particularly strong in the Limousin and Holstein cattle breeds and in the Texel and Suffolk sheep categories. |
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I suspect next year's winner is already planning the logistics for bringing along a Holstein cow. |
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Much of his collection deals with important livestock such as Holstein cattle and Yorkshire pigs. |
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His winning Holstein cow snatched the prize for the supreme cattle champion. |
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With a combined total of 25,000 Holstein cows including replacement heifers, Braum's owns its own milking herd of 10,000 cows. |
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They still do crisp roast duck with orange sauce, steak Diane, even veal schnitzel Holstein. |
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In keeping with tradition, entries in the bigger sheep and cattle breeds, such as the Texel and Holstein Friesian breeds, are up. |
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Twenty-three hundred Holstein cattle were maintained at the dairy with 1300 cows milked three times daily. |
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A pint of Beck's contains 2.9 units, and a single pint of Holstein Pils contains 3.5, almost enough to take a man over the four-unit limit. |
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Crossbreeding refers to breeding different types of cows, like a Holstein and a Jersey. |
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Mr Phillip keeps 20 Jerseys, which run alongside a herd of 110 Holstein Friesians. |
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The cows are bred to suit both the dairy and beef enterprise with a mixture of British Friesian and Holstein stock. |
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Futi's mother is now nine years old and in calf in the Holstein stud of Johan Schoeman of Grootpan Farm in the Bothaville district. |
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During the Holstein picnic at Saint-Hyacinthe last July 12 and 13, Shur-Gain had a booth in which a dartboard had been installed. |
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Pour milk from a Holstein cow into one and milk from a Jersey into the other. |
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Since the early 1970s, the herd is fully made up of purebred Holstein cows. |
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Canada has decided to take a stepwise approach to the implementation of genomic evaluations for the Holstein breed. |
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Figure 1 provides various statistics associated with the Mendelian sampling values for LPI in the Canadian Holstein cow population. |
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They're all individuals, as different as a Friesian is from a Holstein. |
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In 1865 a quick and successful war between Prussia and Denmark solved the old conflict over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. |
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It was an important town in the Middle Ages because of its strategic position between the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. |
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That's about half of what a high producing Holstein requires in early to mid-lactation. |
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An old school bus, painted like a Holstein cow, trundles into a city housing project in northeast Edmonton. |
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The January 2010 genetic evaluation release represents the second publication of official genomic evaluations for the Holstein breed in Canada. |
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It was one of South Africa's prominent Holstein studs at that time. |
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Figure 1 shows the average lactation curve for the first three lactations in the Holstein breed in Canada. |
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A single pint of Holstein Pils contains 3.5 units, almost enough to take a man over the four-unit limit at which he is likely to exceed the legal blood-alcohol level. |
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The confusion may explain the discrepancy between the USDA's description of the Holstein as a downer cow and Ellestad's recollection that the animal was ambulatory. |
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Among the entries, a Holstein from the Philmardo dairy farm in Coaticook won in the female, junior yearling category. |
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The traditional single-story Saxon farmhouse is characteristic of Holstein. |
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Purebred Holstein cattle and many breeds of beef cattle are exported from Canada to many other nations. |
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A little bit of Holstein blood does not hurt when breeding dressage horses as descendants of Calypso II prove. |
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Raised in Holstein, he has been gelded because of his dominant temperament and will be sent to sport. |
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Its 6,000 Holstein cattle loll in the sun waiting to be milked. |
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Holstein cows are black and white bovines that chew the cud, and chew and chew. |
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Josiah Garber relates his experience at Spring Lawn Farm, Pennsylvania USA with 4 DeLaval VMS milking 230 registered Holstein cows. |
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This yields more Jerseys, as well as allows those Holstein heifers to avoid dystocia problems, therefore making them more productive on average. |
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Sweden, moreover, no longer had the strength to invade Denmark from the south in alliance with the dukes of Schleswig or Holstein. |
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Finally, in the 1770s, the Gottorp lands in Schleswig and Holstein were brought under the rule of the Danish crown. |
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Though osteopetrosis is not common in cattle, it has been reported in Hereford, Simmental, Holstein, and Angus breeds in the past, Smith says. |
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Feuds and marital alliances brought the Abel dynasty into a close connection with the German Duchy of Holstein by the 15th century. |
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A distinguished dairy farmer and renowned Holstein breeder and judge, he was also active in the Ordre des agronomes, the Société d'agriculture, the Mouvement Desjardins and the Ordre des médecins vétérinaires du Québec. |
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For this reason, the Holstein breed has higher minimum requirements for an official proof compared to the group of four breeds with the smallest populations in Canada. |
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Along with her husband, Simon Poulin, Mrs. Busque works in the fields of dairy production and embryo sales and operates a farm including 170 head of purebred Holstein cattle and several acres of crops. |
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Oestrus was synchronized in Holstein cows by prostaglandin injection and tissues were collected during the luteal and peri-oestrous stages of the oestrous cycle. |
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Canadian Dairy Network statistics released last year show that Holstein stillbirth incidence with first calvings has risen to 12 per cent from 10 per cent over the past five years. |
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Durham has been so successful in producing purebred Holstein-Friesian animals that we now actually ship them back to Holstein and Friesland where they are used in genetic stock. |
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However, it was noted that there was considerable variability amongst studies so separate analyses for primiparous and multiparous Holstein cows were carried out. |
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Organic dairy farmer, Lawrence Andreas, near Tiverton, Ontario, supplements grazing Holstein cows with a haylage-based Total Mixed Ration with 2-4 kg mixed grains per cow per day. |
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In August 2005, a new, unified type classification system was introduced for appraising all dairy cattle in the Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Canadienne and Milking Shorthorn breeds. |
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A Cow's Christmas... The world's first pre-sexed calf, a Holstein heifer named Eugenia Carol, is born on December 25 at the Animal Disease Research Institute in Nepean, Ontario. |
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German sympathies predominated in Schleswig and Holstein at the time, however, and the duchies responded to Frederick's initiative by requesting admission to the German Confederation as a single state. |
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Federal troops occupied Holstein soon afterward. |
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After being awarded the Studio Prize by the Berlin Council and our concerts at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival and Kulturfeste Brandenburg, we are presenting our new programme Astor. |
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The strategic location was not lost on the founders of Holstein, of which Kiel was intended to be a major city. |
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The Saxons' earliest area of settlement is believed to have been Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein. |
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Denmark was defeated and obliged to cede Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia. |
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Holstein heifers reach puberty at an average body weight between 550 to 650 lbs. |
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At about 800lbs Holstein heifers will normally be able to carry a healthy calf and give birth with relative ease. |
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Saxon Holstein became a part of the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne's Saxon campaigns in the late eighth century. |
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Around 1100, the Duke of Saxony gave Holstein, as it was his own country, to Count Adolf I of Schauenburg. |
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For many centuries, the King of Denmark was both a Danish Duke of Schleswig and a German Duke of Holstein. |
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These demands were rejected by the Danish government in 1848, and the Germans of Holstein and southern Schleswig rebelled. |
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A central element of the German nationalistic claim was the insistence on Schleswig and Holstein being a single, indivisible entity. |
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Unlike Holstein, however, Schleswig did not belong to the German Holy Roman Empire. |
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The lions symbolize Schleswig, and the nettle leaf Holstein, thus expressing the town's unity with these two historic lands. |
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In 1864, Austria and Prussia fought together against Denmark and secured the independence from Denmark of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. |
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German was the administrative language of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig. |
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Records of such finds go back as far as the 17th century, and in 1640 a bog body was discovered at Shalkholz Fen in Holstein, Germany. |
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Valdemar I had also just won a civil war and later Valdemar II led an expedition across the Elbe to invade Holstein. |
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The populations of Schleswig and Holstein, furthermore, greatly valued this separate status. |
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After separation from their mothers, Holstein calves showed such a cognitive bias indicative of low mood. |
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The duchy of Schleswig constituted a Danish fief, while the Duchy of Holstein remained a part of the German Confederation. |
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Denmark was easily beaten by Prussia and Austria, and obliged to relinquish both Schleswig and Holstein. |
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The first case of mad cow disease was confirmed in Japan in a Holstein milk cow Sept. |
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Composition of growth of Holstein calves fed milk replacer from birth to 105-kilogram body weight. |
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The Danish king's realm still consisted of the islands, the northern half of the Jutland peninsula, and the Duchy of Schleswig in real union with the Duchy of Holstein. |
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The Holstein Counts gained control of large portions of Denmark because the king would grant them fiefs in exchange for money to finance royal operations. |
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Galician Blond and Holstein cattle coexist on meadows and farms. |
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When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein. |
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The separation of the two duchies was challenged by the Augustenborg heir, who claimed, as in 1848, to be rightful heir of both Schleswig and Holstein. |
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Essentially, Schleswig was either integrated into Denmark or was a Danish fief, and Holstein was a German fief and once a sovereign state long ago. |
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Schleswig and Holstein have at different times belonged in part or completely to either Denmark or Germany, or have been virtually independent of both nations. |
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George spoke only French, the language of diplomacy and the court, until the age of four, after which he was taught German by one of his tutors, Johann Hilmar Holstein. |
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