Mini Jersey questions

She sure has grown. She looks nice after the de-horning. How old is she?

Wow, she's coming along nicely! She looks great! Grats.

She is almost 11 months old. We are loving her... she "helped" me work on fencing today.

Dehorning is just safer....Two vacinations I always do for anything that I milk and all our heifer beef animals. Bangs so that brucellosis is never a worry with fresh raw milk, and this gives all the female cattle the ability to be sold interstate. One shot deal, vet done, tatoo in ear, instant identification also. Has to be done by 12 months old in Va, used to be before 14 months in ct years ago. All breeding animals get lepto yearly, we do it at preg check. Lepto is in the water, carried by any mammal so a dog with it, peeing in the creek can pass it on, wild animals also. Will cause animals to not breed, early abortion and you will never know they have it. Also we have started with "blackleg" for everyone when they go through the chute for preg check, after an especially wet year that caused an outbreak "bloom" of clostridial bacteria and lost several animals. Cows pass the antibodies to calves and they are protected for 4-10 weeks after birth. Then we give the calves a shot. I use killed virus vaccines, supposed to do 2 shot but since everyone gets them we only do a single shot yearly now. Best is to check with vet for problems in your area. If you bull breed then vibrio can be a problem, but AI it's not.