Registered BueLingo
The results of that breeding was a real nice1/2 Jersey, 1/2 BeuLingo bull with a perfect full, wide white belt, I named Cookieman. He inherited a more Jersey type frame rather than the beef frame of his sire. This was good and I decided to keep him to breed my beloved Jessiecow.
When I went to fetch the calf, I brought him home in the back of my station wagon! I had some strange looks from people coming up along side of me and some very surprised youngsters comments as they drove alongside the wagon. Naturally there were a few stops made to satisfy the request yelled by the children wanting to see the Oreo cookie cow!
Cookie had a wonderful temperment from day one and would even let small children ride him, even after I traded him to a girlfriend for a breeding of her stallion to my Morgan mare. Although she was going to put him in the freezer, she fell in love with him and decided against it. However,she had a hard time keeping him home. He would sneak out and go down the road to visit the girls in the neighbors herd, siring many belted and Panda looking calves.
& her 93 heifer Pearl
Pearl was sold to a good friend, and she also decided she wanted Herwinkle too. Seeing that Cookie was now mature I felt it was time to see what he could do. THIS would be the start of my herd. Cookie was bred to Jessie 2 years in a row and both calves were heifers.
Jessie was getting pretty old now, 16. I thought I would try one last time for a purebred Jersey calf so I had her AIed one las time. However, in her 5th month of pregnancy She became very ill and went downhill drasticly in just a week. Both my vet and I worked hand and hand to try to save her, with no luck.
My beloved Jessiecow was put to rest on New Years Eve Day 2000, as her head lay in my lap. I will NEVER forget her. There will NEVER be another Jessicow.