BUTTER-FAT RECORD.
WAIKATO FRIESIAN COW. SETS NEW FIGURES. AUCKLAND, January G. By producing 334.781 b fat in her first 118 days on C.O.R. test this season, the pedigree Friesian cow, Totarn C.R. Buttercup, created on December 7, 1935, a new lifetime butterfat production record for all cows ever officially tested in this Dominion. The total butterfat production to date of the new champion is 5122.811 b fat, produced in five years and four months only. The previous record production was held by the Otago pedigree Friesian, Roseyale Burkeyje Sylvia, who produced 5120.781 b fat in eight yearly lactation periods. Bred and owned by the Piri Land Co., Orini, Waikato, Totara C.R. Buttercup has created what is most probably her most notable New Zealand record to date. Among her already numerous total of such records is the New Zealand record for all breeds for any two, three, four or five lactation periods, while she also holds the world’s record for butterfat production for three records in heifer form with her yields of 790.661 b fat (2 years), 989.101 b fat (3 years), and 1079.141 b fat (four years). Totara C.R. Buttercup’s official records to date are:—
As Buttercup had not been dry for one single day up to the time of completing her fifth record, it will be realised that her actual lifetime production would he considerably in excess of the totals given above, which actually represent the phenomenal weights of over 60 tons of milk and over 2i tons of butterfat. Totara C.R. Buttercup is still producing just on 3lb fat a day, so that by the time she completes her present lactation period of 365 -days in August next, she should have produced approximately 56001 b butterfat, a figure exceeded by few cows anywhere in the world for six lactations.
Age at calving.. lb milk. lb fat. Days 2yrs. 205 i days 21,208.6 790.6G 383 3yrs. 247 days 26,885.3 989.10 365 4yrs. 267 days 27,108.1 1079.14 365 5yrs. 308 days 28,073.0 1050.07 365 7yrs. 9 days 23,622.6 879.06 365 8yrs. 188 days 9,053.3 334.78 118 Totals 134,950.9 5122.81 5vrs 118 days
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 8
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