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WOW I just looked up the milk production record!!!

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After reading Philip's post below I just wanted to see what the production records where/are. WOW The top Holstein cow now has produced over 78,000 lbs. of milk in 365 days. WOW. I can remember when the record was in the 30,000 lbs. class. That is simply amazing.
 
Back in 1926, a cow at the former State Hospital in Traverse City set the record. She is buried on site, and there is an annual festival in her name! The former State Hospital was nearly torn down, but has been sold and renovated into housing, store front, etc. Pretty amazing what they have done there. Here is the story of the celebrity cow.

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/05/colantha_walker_history.html
 
The sky's the limit with milk production today. The more comfortable the cow is and availability of high quality feed and 3x or robotic milking it's pretty amazing what a great well cared for cow can produce.
 
that is impressive ,.Dad had a good herd Jerseys until 1961 ,they milkt well but i would say it took 2 cows to do 30,000 in the 50s .wonder how old the cow is that milkt 78,000? ....and how long she will live ?/what i am suggesting is they probably have the cow hopt up on a chemicalthat causes her to give more milk ..// I Would Rather be WRONG .. Folx wonder why girls are reaching puberty early,. why we have behavior problems with are kids ,,. allergies of all sorts,.and eating and weight disorders ,.. my nephews are taller than me ,.we are all bigger than the previous generation ,. maybe it truely is that we have more adequate balanced food sources to eat ,.. and like the crops we growin our fields... with more fertilizer ,..you get a better and bigger crop ,..
 
Gigi, a cow who set the record in 2016 at over 74,000 pounds, died in a barn fire in September. Not sure if she was the current holder or not.
 
torwood her record was beat this year.


A Holstein cow in Wisconsin, Ever-Green-View My Gold-ET, has set a new single-lactation national milk production record: a 365-day record of 77,480 pounds of milk.

That??s more than 9,009 gallons of milk, if you??re a consumer and not a dairy farmer.

My Gold-ET is bred and owned by the Tom and Gin Kestell family, of Ever-Green-View Holsteins in Waldo, Wisconsin. She calved at four years and three months, prior to setting the record, which also included 1,992 pounds of fat and 2,055 pounds of protein.

Her production breaks the record set by Bur-Wall Buckeye Gigi, owned by Behnke family, Brooklyn, Wisconsin, in 2015, of 74,650 pounds of milk in 365 days.

By comparison, the actual production average for all U.S. Holstein herds enrolled in production-testing programs in 2015 was 24,958 pounds of milk, 920 pounds of butterfat and 710 pounds of protein.
 
To me, the Smurf cow from Ontario is more amazing with 478000 lifetime. To do that stuff you have to breed back and do it all over again.

In either case, the dairyman has one job to do with a cow like that... stay back, and make sure you don't get in the way.
 
Girls reach puberty earlier today because they consume more calories and protein than they did 30-40 years ago. It is the same with cattle... if I feed a heifer to grow at 1.25 lb per day (just a lot of old hay) it will take her a longer time to reach puberty than if I feed her for 2 lb of gain per day. At the 2 lb per day rate, she'll be bigger and cycle sooner than the 1.25 lb rate.

Let's face it, we eat more now than we did 30-40 years ago. Perfect example- McDonalds. When I was a kid Chicken McNuggets came out. You got six in a box. Today that is the kid's meal, and adults order 10, or even 20. Sodas and chips are bigger. And more importantly, kids eat more of that S#$% than they did 40 years ago. Think a kid today knows how to eat an apple???
 
Those cows are breed for height and bigger size. Gives them more milk carrying capacity.
With milking 3 times a normal cow I wonder how they make out in the long run.
Much like building a race car. It goes fast but is crap as a daily driver.

I would want to see things like life time overall production and feed conversion before I bought in.
 
That's the kind of cow I would like to have too. For every cow that makes it to 10+ years is a couple of replacement heifers your able to sell. Most dairy cows leave farms either because of somatic cell/mastitis issues or problems breeding back.
 
Not to brag, but the Smurf cow was one of two that broke our cow's lifetime record. We had the Granny cow who set the lifetime record worldwide in 2004. She made over 458,000 lbs, had 13 calves, and lived to be 20 and a half. She was small and well mannered. Man I miss that critter.

I think she still hold the official US lifetime record.
 
I agree.....when we milked, we consistently saw a 5 percent increase in production every year....and my herd averaged just over 10000 kg/ cow 15 years ago. Ben
 
We had a small dairy in the 50"s when I was a kid. The big ones from 40 years ago are all gone. I live in TN. How profitable are dairies today overall-of course a good manager will always make money. Is milk subsidized now by the government and are there state milk prices at the stores? I used to think I would like a dairy but never farmed that big with another 50-60 hour a week job.
 
The 305 day figure is to standardize production figures....to compare cows on equal footing...some cows produce way more in a lactation because they don"t breed back to stay on a 12-13 month schedule.
 
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