What Can You Expect From Our Genetics?

• Fertility
• Calving ease
• Freedom from metabolic disorders like milk fever and ketosis
• Good milk production even without grain
• Body capacity for forage utilization
• Great feet and legs, with hoof-trimming rarely needed
• Moderate, practical size

General Traits of our Milking Shorthorns

• Sturdier than the mainstream Milking Shorthorns
• Easy-fleshing for better outwintering
• Excellent beef yield on steers
• Easy-going disposition
• Dairy strength
• Clean-cut yet not frail
• Well-attached udders that last
• Many are polled, some homozygous (100% dehorner of calves)
• Cows weigh 950–1400 pounds
• Butterfat range: 3.5–4.2%
• Protein range: 3.0–3.7%
  • (Butterfat and protein varies between individuals and feeding programs)

General Traits of our Dutch Belted

• Incredible longevity
• Excellent breeding back
• Early maturity
• Silky udders with little edema
• Slender but rugged
• Mobility and agility
• Assertive and energetic
• Smaller frame than Milking Shorthorns (Dutch Belts usually weigh 800–1200 lbs)
• Special milk quality with high cheese yield
• Butterfat range: 3.0–4.2%
• Protein range: 3.0–3.5%
  • (Butterfat and protein varies between individuals and feeding programs)

You can read an in-depth comparison of the breeds here.