I’ve been wanting to add another dairy cow for quite some time, but just haven’t been able to find the right cow. Originally I really didn’t want to drive far, but dairy cows are very few and far between around here…..well, I shouldn’t say dairy cows are…..FAMILY milk cows are. So, I broadened my search to cover neighboring states. Finally about 8 hours away I found the perfect cow. Well, maybe not perfect, but close. A bred 3 year old Jersey heifer due to calve mid to late May. She beautiful and very sweet and praying she throws another heifer calf. She’s a little on the thin side when we picked her up, but we’ll fix that in no time. 
I was really wanting a Mini Jersey, but at $3000 and up? Ouch.
Our other problem that we ran into was we couldn’t find a bull any where to breed our other cow to that has been dry for almost a year now. No one was willing to let us borrow a bull, due to legal reasons I would suppose and that left us up a creek and even with the new cow, as soon as she freshened, we had no way to breed her back. Well, not too far from this gal, we found a beautiful, registered, red Dexter bull whose temperament thus far is just the greatest. We got an excellent deal on him due to him being PHA positive, but that didn’t matter much to us since we were crossing him over to Jersey cows. So, not only did we solve our bull problem, but perhaps I can get those Mini Jersey cows after all. I’m very pleased with what we got and look forward to the milk supply.
Mooooooooooo!
