Jersey Cows. Welcome to my website about Jersey cows - with lots of photos of my Jersey house and nurse-cows!  I love this gorgeous looking breed of cow very much and I'd like to share with you some of my experiences of having owned and bred some of these delightful girls on my smallholding.  Here in New Zealand, we use the term 'house-cow' for the cow that is kept to supply the household milk.  In other parts of the world she is known in as a 'family cow.'  The house-cow is traditionally kept in the paddocks nearest the house for convenience sake, as she will need milked twice a day if she doesn't have a calf or calves on her. Jerseys are a breed that produce milk with a particularly good milk-solid and protein content, and if managed well, will supply all the milk you need for drinking, cooking, cheese and butter-making and yogurt for 9 or 10 months of the year, as well as raising a calf or two for the freezer.  Often she will produce more milk than ones household can use and the surplus will be used to raise other calves, pigs or it can be fed to the chooks. I hope you'll enjoy having a browse around my site and will visit again soon as I will be adding more content and photos in the near future.  You'll find some of my favourite cow photos on each webpage and in the Gallery.  Please respect my copyright by not downloading my photos.  If you'd like to purchase photos for personal, web or editorial use, please contact me via the 'Contact Me' link.                                                                  ©2009Midge Henderson