Strangers in our fields?

Tuesday 17th November 2009, 3:00PM GMT.

From Wendy Quérée.
THERE are many aspects of Jersey life that I love, and one of my favourites is gazing at our beautiful, gentle, Jersey cows.

They are very special and must be the prettiest in the world. However, I know little about farming, and had no idea that lifting the ban on imported semen meant that not only can semen from Jersey bulls be imported, but this also means that any bull semen can be imported, as the JEP of 30 September illustrated.

I now wonder how long it will be before our fields are dotted with many other breeds, and we will no longer have fields and fields of our Jerseys to gaze at.

Surely it’s not possible for the Jersey cow, as we know it, to become an endangered species, or even extinct? Or am I just talking a load of bull?

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Cowboy

November 18, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Ms Wendy Quérée would do well to look back into recent history.

During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands the German forces imported herds of cattle from mainland Europe to feed themselves.

Scrupulous care was taken to prevent any cross-insemination of the native Jersey cattle.

Any Jersey cattle breeder of today would, without a scintilla of doubt or question, do all possible to prevent his cows being inseminated by non-Jersey bulls.

That would be economic suicide.

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Said as Seen

November 22, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Talking a load of bull. Go back to your cattle gazing & leave matters that require at least a handful of brain cells to others.

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