A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1,1992
Oakenbound Farms No. 8 In Nation
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growing calves and helping with
making haylage.
Salesmen and dairy industry
representatives visit often, which
is generally taken as a sign that the
farm is well operated.
There’s a male Golden Retriev
er dog, its chin and muzzle hairs
greying with age, that greets visi
tors and sleeps on the floor of the
milk house office, or in the stanch
ion stalls when the cows are out. In
the summer, the cool concrete
Oakenbound Tradition Jackie was a homebred Excellent 91 with an excellent mam
mary. Her genetics continue through breeding stock from the Oakenbound Farm in
Berks County.
WOOD TRUSS
MANUFACTURERS of
LAMINATED RAFTERS
and WOOD ROOF TRUSSES
701 E. Linden St., RICHLAND, PA 17087
Telephone: 717-866-6581
Fax: 717-866-7237
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beneath the milk tank is a favorite
snoozing spot for the dog. Richard
Jr. said.
It is a family farm in every
sense, yet it is a progressive farm.
Nelson has applied himself to
developing a strong understanding
of genetics.
Tbe 39-year-old does all the A.I.
reproductive work on the herd. He
buys the semen he wants to use and
keeps it at the farm.
His handi-work and their use of
businesses such as Em-Tran, a
Middletown embryo transplant
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and reproductive operation, have
enabled them to breed top stock.
He flushes some of his good
cows, markets heifers and
embryos and bulls.
Recently, one of his home-bred
projects, Oakenbound Southwind
Jaguar-ET, was one of four Pen
nsylvania dairy cattle bulls entered
into a proving program of an artifi
cial insemination cooperative.
Jaguar was the embryo transfer
result of a cross between his now
deceased Excellent 91 Oaken
bound Tradition Jackie and the
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From the left, Richard Troutman Jr. and Nelson Troutman
show a young bull calf that has already been targeted for
purchase by an artificial insemination business.
Southwind bull.
The dam carried a production
record in excess of 26,500 pounds
of milk, 999 pounds of fat and 780
pounds of protein and had an
Excellent mammary.
She also bore daughters and
there’s at least one in the string of
92-miUdng cows that should go
Excellent.
And there are more bull calves
at the 127-acre farm that are
targeted for entry into AI proving
programs.
As long as they don’t test posi
tive for BLAD.
BLAD is the latest concern in
cattle breeding. And it is a concern
among breeders that some dairy
men may not understand what it is.
GOTHIC ARCH
BLAD is an acronym for bovine
leucocyte adhesion deficiency. It
is probably the most recent “dis
ease” discovered in dairy cattle.
The majority of cattle with
BLAD do not show it, because it is
not a disease really, it is a defective
gene. A recessive genetic gene.
Most of the cattle with BLAD
are carriers. If a cow carrier and a
bull carrier are matched up, one
out of four offspring (straight
Mendelian principle) are expected
to actually have the disability.
The disability is an inability to
fight bacterial infections, because
white blood cells can’t function
properly.
Industry advice has been to
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• GLU-LAM BEAMS
. GLU-LAM TREATED POSTS
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• FLOOR TRUSSES
• TAG AND V-GROOVE DECKING
• WE CUSTOM DESjGN OR MATCH
EXISTING BUILDINGS
. COMPLETE UNE OF POST
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