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Chytodden Farm at Towednack
A dairy farmer shows his cows
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Overview
Chytodden Farm in Toewdnack near St Ives is home to a Suddon Herd of pedigree Friesian Cows with one supreme champion cow. The average size of a dairy herd in the UK is 100. Friesians have been adapted to calf maintaining lactation and therefore milk production. Female calves or heifers are kept as replacement cows for the herd and male calves can be kept for breeding or sold for meat as veal or beef.
Holstein Friesians cows are known as the world’s highest yield diary production animals. They have been bred to produce a high yield of milk from eating grass, through selective breeding the typical black and white cow was born. Holstein Friesians are a breed of cattle originating from the two northern provinces of North Holland and Friesland, and what is now Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. They are known as the world's highest-production dairy animals.
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