by ben | Nov 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently, Holt Creek Jerseys conducted a survey* that included several questions about what customers are looking for in choosing grazing genetics for their grazing dairy, and the results are in: Most customers want to use semen from A2A2, Grass-fed bulls with high...
by ben | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
You will notice that the same animals appear more than once on the pedigrees of many of our bulls. You may have been told that this is “inbreeding,” a practice to be avoided. However, we have been linebreeding Jersey genetics at Holt Creek Jerseys for many years,...
by ben | Jun 8, 2018 | DAIRY, GRASSFED
One of the most common questions we get about our bulls is: “Do you have New Zealand genetics?” The answer is Yes, and No. Most accurately, our adapted genetics could be described as “Native-ized American” adapted genetics. In the late 1990’s we began using New...
by ben | Jun 8, 2017 | GRASSFED
WHAT IS GRAZING ABILITY? What is “grazing ability,” and how can our cows obtain it? More interestingly–is it hereditary? In Andre Voisin’s book Grass Productivity, which Allan Savory calls “the best basic pasture management book available”...
by ben | May 8, 2016 | Beef, GRASSFED
We believe that the organic, grass-fed, A2 Jersey milk and dairy products from our polled, grass-fed A2 Jersey cows is one of the best-tasting and most nutritious foods available to the public today. We want to provide our customers with the highest-value eating...
