Samuel Watson, CREAM finance and promotion team, Higher National Diploma in Agriculture, Greenmount Campus, CAFRE.

The CREAM herd at CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus was recently classified with some very pleasing results for the students and staff involved.

Pictured below is "Creamer Gibson Annemarie", daughter of Supreme Annemarie, a thirteen-year-old cow that is currently in her ninth lactation and has given in excess of 118,000 litres to date. Supreme Annemarie has been classified five times Excellent and is a very notable cow within the herd, as she is the only original foundation cow remaining. Creamer Gibson Annemarie looks set to follow in her mother’s footsteps, by being classified as Good Plus 84 as a first lactation heifer. To date she has yielded 7145 litres at 244 days of lactation with 4.21 percent butterfat and 2.92 percent protein. A number of full sister embryos to Creamer Gibson Annemarie have been implanted and are due to calve in January 2006. Another four first lactation heifers were classified into the Good Plus category and a forth lactation cow achieving Excellent 90.

These results demonstrate the progress made by the student breeding decisions and reinforces that the future performance of the CREAM herd is being built on solid foundations.

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Dr Stephanie Woods, CREAM project coordinator, with some of this year's CREAM students and Creamer Gibson Annemarie