Kathleen—available for $6500

Registered A2 Guernsey

Grassfed

Bred to a registered Guernsey bull and due in early May for a spring calf (bred to RHG Villa Theo Vision-ETV on 7/24/23). With a 283 day gestation calculator, she is due May 2nd, but our cows usually calve later than 283 days.

Ready to start second lactation and turn three years old in May (born 5-10-2021)

Gentle and easy to milk with great teats for hand milking or machine milking. Her teats are long enough to hand milk easily if needed but thin enough to fit nicely into inflations for machine milking. We have only machine milked her; she was robot-milked before we bought her.

Used to being milked in a stanchion. Very gentle and sweet in the stanchion. Once she knows her routine, she’ll walk right into the stanchion happily to be milked.

Currently dry but far enough from calving to be an ideal time for transport.

Disease-tested and negative for BVD and Johnes

Grassfed—currently grazing spring pasture. Requires high quality hay in winter and times of drought when quality pasture isn’t available. She likes to have alfalfa pellets or a bit of soaked beet pulp while being milked. We use free-choice dairy cow mineral and MultiMin.

Paperwork and instructions provided so you can register her calf with the American Guernsey Association

Referrals available for reputable hauling.

No holds without a deposit. Deposits are non-refundable.

We bought Kathleen in 2023 because we needed more milk for our cow share. She was a package deal with another cow who is due in the late summer who we are adding to our national-level show string. We disease-tested the entire group from this puchase and they all tested negative. Kathleen was a great addition when we needed more milk in 2023, but we are selling her now because we have two other cows due in May so we won’t need her for our cow share. We bought Kathleen mid-lactation from a farm where she was being milked with a robot. The robot was having trouble attaching to her back left teat and so they had dried that teat off (instructed the robot to stop milking it). She had a low SCC when we bought her and she never had any signs of mastitis when we milked her here. She was a good producer before we dried her off, making around 4 gallons a day at the end of her lactation with only 3 teats being milked. We dried all four quarters off with Spectramast DC when we dried her off. My best guess is that the left rear quarter will come back and that all four quarters will make milk, but I cannot guarantee it.