How much do Dairy Cattle weigh?
I’m looking for a weight range for a few Dairy cattle breeds. I need birth weight, weanling weight, cow weight and bull weight; maybe yearling weight. The breeds I need info on are Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorn.
Holsteins make up the vast majority of dairy cattle for their ability to adapt to confinement methods. Calves are normally 90-100 pounds at birth; weanling weights generally aren’t taken on dairy but as yearlings at about 800# they are bred, with adult cows not uncommon at the 1500# mark. Bulls from 1800# to just over a ton aren’t uncommon. They can be black and white or red and white.
Ayreshire cows are more like 1200# at maturity – they were developed to be efficient grazers so body weight wasn’t as big of a factor.
Guernseys are similar to Ayrshires.
Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorn have more variance because of their dual purpose background. Swiss cattle fall between the Ayreshire and Holstein in size with bulls not uncommon at 1700#+ and cows 1,000-1200. Milking Shorthorns are very slightly smaller…not that many years ago, relatively speaking, they were a single breed – shorthorns. A demand for specialization divided milking and beef cattle into breeding for different traits
Jerseys are the smallest breed – calves 50-60#, adult cows 800-1200# bulls 1600-1700#
The loss of farms that use grazing is threatening all but the Holstein and Jersey.
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