[SallyintNorth]

Re: getting into milk recording; I'm not sure, have sent message to my pal who does it to ask.

CGP, as to Jerseys and Johnnes, you would want to source from a high health status farm, certified clear of Johhnes, and buy Jerseys that have been bred on the farm. 

I started with Hillie as an in-calf heifer.  She wasn't cheap, but she had a heifer calf, luckily, and then another.  How lucky was that? !!  And her first daughter, Plenty, then had a Jersey heifer calf too!  So now I have 4 of them; Katy (Hillie's 2nd daughter) will calve herself this summer, and Kitty (Plenty's daughter) will get served at about that time.  So by this time next year I will have 4 of them milking!   

[Ina]

Re: getting into milk recording; I'm not sure, have sent message to my pal who does it to ask.
 

I'd be interested in that, too! Have never seen it advertised anywhere. I'd love to find a job that I could do part time, and that keeps me connected to what I've always enjoyed most on farms. (And where they possibly wouldn't mind employing a middle-aged, overweight woman... )