Kathleen—available for $6500—sold

Registered A2 Guernsey

Grassfed

Calved May 9, 2024. Starting second lactation and turnign 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. When her calf was born, I did hand-milk half a gallon of colostrum for the calf. It was easy to hand milk her, and her teats are a nice size for hand milking.

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.

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.

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. She is a great producer and makes plenty of delicious milk.

Photos are from when she was dry. More photos coming soon now that she has calved.