FAULTY UDDERS

Shannon News, 26 April 1927, Page 4

FAULTY UDDERS

There is a fault often geen In heavy milkers—a badly-shaped udder. • Indeed, many of our heaviest yeilders have rather atrocious vessels. What, then (saysDalgety’s Review), is the sehse of striving after symmetry and shape of bag, when the shapely vessel is * outstripped in milk production by thW ugly, pendulous, badly-balanced. sp|lit-up and windy-teated vessel? Hbre, however, we have to look to the future, rather than the present. A good level vessel is more likely to wear well, and is less liable to the ills that udders are heir to. The sloppy, pendulous bag is more liable tc injury and the coarse teats cost much more to milk. The shape of the udder is not a fancy point set up against utility qualities. The sick breeder has to wage a constant war with degeneracy, and the correction of: faults—faults that in moderation are not a serious blot on the commercial value of an animal, but that, if allowed to develop unchecked, would -ruin any race of cattle. There can be! no question that the sire is a very, important factor in determining the? 'shfape of the udder, and a son of a coW with a bad udder is not likely to give satisfactory results, even if the dam’s- record is exceptional.