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.