Jersey calves …but not as we know them

Saturday 5th June 2010, 2:57PM BST.

Richard Leith, of Chalet Farm, with his Aberdeen Angus cross-bred Jersey calves.

EIGHT black cows in a field in St John show the changing face of Jersey’s agricultural industry.

The distinctive animals are cross-breed beef cattle, half Jersey and half Aberdeen Angus, and reflect the effect of the decision in 2008 to scrap a ban on imported bull semen.

Dairy farmer Richard Leith, of Chalet Farm, St John, has eight cross-bred calves in a field in St John and about 20 on the way over the next few months.

He said that the new rules allowing farmers to use top-quality bull semen were healthy for the industry.

• See Saturday’s JEP for full story.

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