56 | nzdairy “We do pamper them I must admit. All the cows are mated according to their faults and where they can improve. Personally I don’t want to be milking anything that doesn’t have a good udder.” Ranching in Texas to Jersey breeding Sue Russell DAIRY PEOPLE » Jeremy & Deborah Gloyn Jeremy & Deborah Gloyn are long-time Jersey breeders, farming on 160ha near Rongotea, Manawatu on the western Manawatu Plains, about 20 km north-west of Palmerston North. Calving got underway on 10 July and Jeremy says his herd of 220 cows, a mix of Holstein and 60 registered Jersey’s, calve with very little fuss. Breeding Jersey’s runs deep, with Jeremy’s grandfather vice-president of the Jersey Association. Then Jeremy’s father also had a pedigree Jersey stud . “Most of the holidays we were travelling to A & P shows in Masterton, to Levin on the West Coast and all the way up to the Hawkes Bay,” Jeremy says. Having completed highschool and uncertain of what next to do Jeremy decided to have a gap year, which turned into 4 years. He ended up in the USA mainly working on farms and ranches in Texas. “When I returned at 21 years of age it was suggested by Mum that University would be a good idea. I ended up working for just over three years at the Awahuri AB Centre, collecting and processing bull, sheep, dog and horse semen.” Debbie came from a stud in Hawkes Bay and Jeremy is the 5th generation on the family farm. Jeremy tracked his farming progress through contract, lower-order to 50:50 sharemilking. When his father passed away when Jeremy was 28 years old he and Debbie decided it was time to return to the family home. “We were milking mainly black and white and with Debbie’s parents in uence, the herd included some registered Holstein. Because I had been in America and travelling around and was seeking the American production quantities. I thought if we could get some American genetics into the country so I got a job working for World Wide Sires.” Jeremy has worked for WW Sires ever since as a commissioning agent, working for a large number of farmers helping them to achieve their goals. When Jeremy’s grandmother passed away at the ripe old age of 93, not long after his father died, Jeremy decided to invest some money into a couple of in-calf Jersey heifers. “My wife says the cattle we have, have to be the best quality.” Asked what it is about his 60 stud Jersey cows that distinguish themselves from the rest of the predominantly Friesian herd, Jeremy says its about their pushiness and place in the herd. “Of my 60 Jersey’s 40 of them would be in the rst four rows of the cow-shed. My Holsteins are 580-600kg cows and these Jersey cows ght and compete against them. In the last season the top cow was a Jersey who produced 746kgMS and she would be 430kg in weight.” Put simply, a good Jersey cow is a big, robust cow who, Jeremy says, terrorizes the Holsteins. Three by one sire - team of three yearlings. Winners of their class. Sired by American bull CHROME. Grazing heifers. “Because we synchronize and inseminate our yearlings we only do 4 weeks AI on the herd, then the returns are mated to beef.” Heifer calves are well looked after, resting on personal blankets, with their own polar eece jackets for a few weeks. This keeps their body temperature nice and even. “We do pamper them I must admit.” All the cows are mated according to their faults and where they can improve. “Personally I don’t want to be milking anything that doesn’t have a good udder.” Embryo transplanting has been embraced since 1988 and the Jerseys have been in the programme for the last 10-12 years. “We’re after breeding big, robust, competitive, fertile progeny. Violet is our higher indexing cow, with a huge BW,” Jeremy says. Jeremy and Debbie have contracts with Live Stock Improvement and with CRV for bull calves and 3 heifers in the CRV Genome programme. “They provide us with the semen for two years for each of those heifers.” Valintino is the bull being used in the sacri ce of index to add a little more statue to some of the girls. “Superman is a high index bull we are using heavily this year as he ticks a lot of boxes for me while the high genomic bull Popeye is the sire of most of this year’s heifer calves after a discussion with his breeder Maurice Pedley who described his mother as a ‘First Row Cow’,” Jeremy explains. Jeremy and Debbie’s stud is called Matagouree, a play on the spelling of his father’s stud Matagauri. Phillip Cockery OWNER 06 323 1080 or 027 44 22 456 feildingtractors2018@xtra.co.nz 133 South Street, Feilding 4702 CASE IH • FIAT • ISEKI • NEW HOLLAND • FORD • McCORMICK KUBOTA • DAEDONG • MASSEY FERGUSON • SAME • JOHN DEERE DAVID BROWN SPECIALISTS + ALL OTHER MAKES & MODELS • Round and Conventional Baling • Hay Baleage Straw Call ANDREW PEDLEY Proud to Support Jeremy & Debbie Gloyn PEDLEY CONTRACTING LTD M: 027 444 9833 E: pedleycontracting@gmail.com
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