Robo Jersey Genetics

03/12/2024

Making a silage stack last night with quite an attentive audience.

23/11/2024

A couple of nice first cross MRI girls - can’t wait to milk some second cross dual-purpose heifers.

12/10/2024

I was asked the other day, how long a lactation some of my cows can do? Most of them would do 305 days or a little more.

But I just happened to see this girl did 10,262 litres in 688 days as a heifer.
Profitable, but not really ideal.

25/09/2024

Trump - Well-named by Kimberley.

He’s generally pretty good at keeping his mob of bulls under control.

Not the best smelling critter mind you!

10/06/2024

Great to see the muck spreader back on the job - does a great job of evenly adding sawdust into the compost barn.

05/06/2024

Southern Star Farms started milking with Lely milking robots in 2013. Run by Jo Crack, she is opening the farm gate to the public on the 25th of June. Registration is required.

31/05/2024

And here’s Malva again this year. She just happened to come up on my memories from last year.

I posted a very similar pic of her - she did 756kg ms last season and so far this season she’s done 742kg ms - her calving date has come forward 3 weeks so she won’t make last years’ production.

In calf to Got Maid and due on 5 Aug.

19/04/2024

I have a line of r2 jersey heifers for sale.
40 in total including a handful of blacks/magpies.
Would sell in a smaller line.
Due to calve mid July to purebred jersey bulls.
PM me if interested, for profile

12/04/2024

The girls were pretty happy to be off the wet paddocks again today. Yesterday they didn’t have to be told twice to get in the barn … in fact when it was teeming down they ran from the robot shed, out into the rain and straight into the barn.

17/03/2024

One last cow to calve… a 3 gen home-bred grand-daughter of Jacinda. Due to Sun Valley Jive.

She seems pretty relaxed about being the only girl in the 400 cow barn!

20/02/2024

Took a few days but now a few of the girls are right smack in the middle of the lounge - thanks to Lynley van Alphen.

04/02/2024

A few of girls lined up in the barn

17/01/2024

Gorgeous painting of the girls now for sale.

A row of abstracted Jersey cows created with palette knife and oil paint on black 610x305mm canvas. Hang as is or enhance with a frame. Free shipping NZ

31/12/2023

Cathia, last milking of the season, after 325 DIM - photo taken just before I dried her off.

She’s a pretty special heifer out of Trim Cath.

She did just over 600kgMS for the season - expected more but she was struck down by a mystery illness back in July and plummetted from 30 litres a day to 15.
She did pick up after that but didn’t get back over 23litres a day.

In calf to Chocochip, due Feb 10.

24/12/2023

Another girl starting to emerge…

More layers. Some semblance of a face appearing.
Dark colour is burnt sienna and ultramarine blue mixed.
Yellow is gold ochre. (A random tube I had).

All just free hand.... and standing back to view from a distance. Plus coffee stops!

22/12/2023

Very nice jersey painting… could be a bit biased as the models just happen to be Robo Jersey inhabitants.

This gal is Robo Bell Floss - by Bellman out of Flossy, who is a David cow from a good old cow who came from Gerald and Annette Gunther.

What a mission! First attempt at a jersey cow.
Created with palette knife and oil paint on 600x600mm plywood. A few smoothing brushstrokes at the end to take some texture out.