Traits Other than Production (TOP) measure the physical attributes of dairy cattle. Farmers score animals for traits relating to their management at milking time and qualified inspectors score traits relating to the physical conformation of the animals. In addition to scores on individual traits, registered animals receive a classification award that categorises them based on the standard of conformation overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
APPLY ONLINE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n APPLICATION FORM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n CLASSIFICATION STANDING ORDER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n BLANK TOP FARMER SHEETS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Classification awards are given to all inmilk heifers and cows. To be eligible for classification awards, animals must be registered with Jersey New Zealand. The scores in brackets above are Udder Overall and Dairy Conformation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellent Cow award conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When all two year olds are inspected in a member herd, the results are entered in the database and are used in Animal Evaluation to calculate breeding values for the traits. If a member chooses to select only a few two year olds to be inspected, the data is not used in Animal Evaluation and adds nothing to breeding values. Jersey NZ recommends that members inspect all two year olds to receive greater value from the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tour Option<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tour option usually involves two classifiers from out of the area coming into a region to inspect all animals put up for classification. Spring calving herds are inspected during October, November and December and autumn calving herds are inspected as requested by the member. Tours happen once a year and are usually completed by 1 December in any given year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personalised Option<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With this option members can plan an inspection to work in better with the needs of their farm operation and is not restricted to tour times of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please note the following conditions for the personalised option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This inspection option is offered in regions as set out in the application form. Traits Other than Production (TOP) measure the physical attributes of dairy cattle. Farmers score animals for traits relating to their management at milking time and qualified inspectors score traits relating to the physical conformation of the animals. In addition to scores on individual traits, registered animals receive a classification award that categorises them based on … Continue reading “TOP & Classification”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Thornwood-Jerseys-e1482105903213.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Classification is divided into the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Inspection Service Options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Application form soon to be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"