My plan at the moment is to get two Friesian x Limousin heifer calves and bucket rear them, so they are nice and tame, run them on, put them in calf to a beef bull maybe at 15 months, maybe later and keep on for our house and sell one with a calf at foot. Long term plan, you see - and not completely firmed up.
Why? I like cows, mostly. I worked on a dairy farm and I like cows. Also, we like milk and dairy products, and beef; we raise chickens, pigs and sheep so hte cow fills the gap, so to speak.
Part of me would like a Jersey or one of the rare breeds, but I might try my plan and if it works, fine, if not I'll sell my two suckler cows and start again.