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VikingNews UK 02 2015
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the gerber family, george, south africa 1300
jersey
cows pasture system + tmr viking
jersey
sires
for 10 years 500 q zik & 300 q impuls daughters ian gerber, his brother and father run a family based dairy cooperation on the south coast of south africa between knysna and george. the farm is pasture based but to increase the size they need to use tmr based on maize as well. ?we started off with a friesian
herd
but the dairy companies in our area pay only on milk solids and not on litres. to make more profit we are therefore forced to produce more solids, and no other breed can compete with
jersey
when it comes to efficient production of solids. in 2008 i visited tienie durr, who has a large jer- sey
herd
in w cape and has been using danish
jersey
sires
for many years. he showed me a beautiful group of healthy q zik daughters with excellent udders and very high solids. from that day i was convinced that the vikinggenetics ntm suited my breeding policy. before that i used dj may, hovborg and dj look?, ian gerber explains. the
sires
in the
herd
with the most impact today are q zik: 550 daughters, q impuls: 330 daughters and dj zuma with 264 daugh- ters. currently they use vj lure, dj hulk and vj himp. ?the viking
sires
have helped us tremendously to achieve the positive results so far. it is very impor- tant to use
sires
with high reliability and this we get from a unique gene pool de- veloped for the benefit of the farmers. it is a fact that the vikinggenetics bulls are very good for solids?, ian gerber stress. haystack
herd
, johannesburg, south africa 120
jersey
cows (85% danish/viking) 17 ha - 600 mm rainfall ivor reid runs a relatively small
jersey
pedigree
herd
near johannesburg with 120 cows of which 60 are in milk. the 17 ha land is all in pasture and ivor buys all his feed including concentrates. at the moment he is a bit overstocked, so he will select the genetically best young cows that all carry danish/viking
jersey
genes. recent
sires
who have done a great job in the
herd
are dj broiler, dj impuls, dj may, dj lirsk and many of the heifers are by dj zuma. ?danish/vi- king
jersey
sires
have given me tremen- dous progress over the years. the viking
sires
come with detailed declaration, they are easy to combine with due to their various pedigrees and you know what you get?, ivor reid highlights. q zik daughters in first and second lactation by the gerber family in southern cape, sa ivor reid has succesfully been using danish
jersey
sires
in his pedigree
herd
for over 20 years manager heinrich hurte with his team at packwood estate packwood estate, western cape, south africa 420 mainly
jersey
cows av. 5,500-6000 liters mainly pasture + maize in the dairy 420 ha - pasture + crops ?we?ve started using viking/danish jer- sey about four years ago? manager hein- rick hurte tells. ?at the moment we are milking 60 hovborg, zik and impuls cows with another 120 heifers by these
sires
to calve next year. we have rapidly increased the solids - butterfat and pro- tein - significantly with the viking/dan- ish
jersey
sires
. the highest average pro- duction is 18 liters and we practice sea- sonal calving twice a year. also the temperament and udders have im- proved.
jersey
is a beautiful and efficient dairy cow and we will keep going fur- ther with the use of viking
sires
?, hein- rick rounds off the interview. ian, nic and johan gerber in a beautiful maize field with their water resevoir behind 20 vikingnews | june 2015
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