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16 — JerseyJournalOctober/November 2010 ALTA GENETICS AUSTRALIA Unit 11, 85-91 Keilor Park Drive, Tullamarine, VIC, 3043 (t): (03) 9330 3444 (f): (03) 9330 3144 (e): julian.pick@altagenetics.com
Wayne Burley Passionate About Jerseys by Sue Webster Visitors who wander through the paddocks of Wayne and Robin Burley’s jersey study at Dorrigo get a potted history of the breed. Each paddock is named after a notable stud: Belgonia, Heathermere, Glenavon, Banyule, Kameruka, Tecoma, Kendonvale, Oxley … Wayne explained: “They’re all the old studs I loved. I loved their cattle. And they’ve all got the sign on the gates.” Wayne Burley is a Jersey man right down to his marrow. “I’ve always had an interest in breeding and I always took an interest in pedigrees,” he said. “I had a scrapbook as a kid and I used to cut out pictures of the cows I really liked from the old Livestock Bulletin. And I used to write about them in my book. I suppose this was when I was aged 10 to 15. I always loved cows.” It was in his bloodline. His grandfather Gus established the Moonpah stud in 1945, named after an area around Dorrigo. His dad Norm established the Braelyn Jersey stud nearby, drawing on the genetic legacy of the Braeside herd and that of the Broad’s Lynleastud. primary school teaching, mostly in the Hunter Valley, but for the first two years I was at one of the most isolated schools in NSW, at Marra Creek in western NSW north of Nyngan. The first year I was there didn’t have a phone but I had a house cow. So I didn’t lose touch! “I did teaching for 26 years, but the last 11 of those I was farming as well. And I was always registering a few a year.” The draw to dairy was still there. He recalled: “It was always down the track. It was going to happen. And I was always busy working hard in my holidays picking potatoes in the Christmas holidays to earn the money to buy my farm.” It takes a determined man to spend his working day with other people’s kids and then, on his holidays, lug 65kg bags of spuds on piece rates. “But when it comes to dairying, you can’t go into the job 80% keen,” he said. “It’s got to be 100%. You’ve got to love it. It’s too hard, the hours are too long and the rewards are not financial ones.” Wayne recalled: “Dad was very, very passionate about the jerseys. He’d had hip operations - one hip was replaced twice - and he had both legs amputated due to diabetes … but that didn’t stop him. He’d sit out on the veranda and say ‘look after that cow’ or ‘what cow’s that?’ He’d always keep an eye out and we kept his stud going, even when he dispersed.” Wayne continued: “When my grandfather was in his 60s and wasn’t in good health he decided to disperse the stud. I wanted to take over his stud. I was 15at the time. He said ‘I want you to keep the stud name going’. He knew I was keen.” But Wayne’s road into jersey breeding was not straightforward. “I wanted to go back on the farm but my family said there’s not enough money for two families they were running 60 head off 40ha.So I didn’t start farming,” said Wayne. “I went off and did JerseyJournalOctober/November 2010 —17—
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