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The Tip Top cow

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The Tip Top cow

This prize-winning Jersey cow was one of a herd supplying cream to the Karaka Tip Top ice cream company in 2005. She was dressed by Tracey Collins to represent one of the four supreme ice cream flavours. Most of the other cows in this herd seem rather unimpressed.

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Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Dairy products, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19957/the-tip-top-cow (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, published 1 March 2009.