Polly—available for $6500

Registered Guernsey

Grassfed

A2

Bred with sexed semen to Charming Design—registered A2 Guernsey bull with 95+% chance of a heifer calf. Polly was bred on December 4th and is confirmed pregnant. She is due on September 13, 2024. She has good fertility and is easy to get bred back with AI. She last calved on October 13, 2023

Gentle and easy to milk with great teats for hand milking.

Halter trained and easy to lead.

She is the most reliable cow I've ever seen for hand milking. She has never kicked for us and the milk comes out very easily. She's the cow we use for our agritourism farm tours because everyone who has ever tried to milk her here has been successful, even people who have never even touched a cow before.

Currently in milk—good producer of delicious milk—producing around one gallon of milk on once a day milking. Could be milked twice a day for more milk. Ideal for hand milking. We are currently milking by machine, but her teats are a too big for the inflations on our milking machine, so it’s hard to get her milked out and we sometimes have to finish milking her out by hand. Her production may go up with a switch to exclusively hand milking. I would expect her production to be higher in her next lactation if you are exclusively hand milking her. She may be light in the two front quarters. When we strip her before milking we get milk out of all four quarters. We machine milk so we have no way of knowing if production is equal in different quarters. It could be because she was used as a nurse cow before we bought her—calves nursing often cause udder asymmetries.

Disease-tested and negative for Johnes, BLV, and BVD—official paperwork available

Up-to-date on vaccinations—vaccination history available

Grassfed—currently eating pasture and alfalfa/orchard grass mix hay. She likes to have alfalfa pellets or a bit of soaked beet pulp while being milked. We use free-choice dairy cow mineral, plus MultiMin for selenium supplementation. She really likes to graze.

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

Suggested management plan for the next 12 months with target dates for vaccination and supplement boosters, dry-off, next breeding, etc.

Referrals available for reputable hauling.

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

We bought Polly in April 2023 with another cow because we needed more milk for our cow share. We disease-tested both of them before adding her to our herd. She was a great addition, but we are selling her because we had some heifers calve and join the herd, so we have too much milk now. Polly’s teats are better suited for hand milking than for our milking machine setup. Polly was born 3-24-17.