After WWII the "Bigger is Better" idea caught on along with refrigeration coming in. This made it possible for people to purchase milk and dairy products from local stores. Therefore, slowly over the years the little Jerseys disappeared, bringing the Little Jersey Cattle breed close to extinction.
It is said that Ralf Martin's Jersey Stock are supposed to be descended from the Old Man Snow Jerseys. Supposedly, to have been imported from the Jersey Islands by Ralph Martin.
These cattle are not only for the person that wishes to own a novelty pet, but for the families moving back to the small 5 acre home sites that want good, fresh REAL milk. Not that poor excuse for milk that they sell in the grocery stores nowadays!
Many people have been told by their doctors that they are allergic to milk and dairy products. When in fact they aren't allergic to the milk and dairy products at all, but are allergic to the garbage put into milk!
Synthetic vitamins A and D, replace real A & D that is depleted when they remove the cream, then homogenize, pasteurize and destroy God's most perfect food. Growth hormones injected into the cows bodies. Insecticides on the grains and hay they're given to eat. Urea, is an animal by product, used in dairy rations to supply some of the protein needed by the cows. Urea is bitter and must be mixed completely in the feed. The nitrogen content of Urea is 46%. More than 0.2 pound (0.09 kg) per day during lactation can easily be lethal to your cow! The MEAT BYPRODUCTS added to their feed. Much being from infected and diseased animals that would otherwise be buried or burned! Cattle are herbivores anyway! They're not suppose to eat meat!
There are others out there breeding these little cows and calling them Registered Miniature Jerseys. There are also those that will take you for all they can get you for. From my own experience, I know of one that I wish to warn all visiting my page about.Professor Emeritus Richard Gradwohl, of the Happy Mountain Miniature Cattle Farm in Covington, Washington, is not a man to be trusted.
His professorship is in MARKETING and he does it VERY WELL. He has a very large impressive looking webpage that has done alot for miniature cattle. There is alot to be learned on his page. HOWEVER. "BUYER BEWARE!"
NOW,,,,,,,comes his FOUNDATION BULL for yet another breed he has come up with. The bulls name is Lightning Jack. HE has renamed him JoJo Jackson.
I bred Lightning Jack WITHOUT even wanting a belted animal or even trying for one. The BELTING GENE is in most all my stock. It comes from a Registered BeuLingo bull, "Glacier View Gus" that I bred to a Purebred Jersey cow I couldn't get settled with AI methods some generations back in my herd.
I was amazed when Jack was born with his beautiful wide white belt. Naturally, he is a throwback to the perfectly belted BeuLingo bull used on his great great grandma.
Having seen Gradwohl's website and seeing how much INCONSISTENCY in the belting of the Panda cattle he was coming up with, I instantly thought that Lightning Jack would be an aid in "helping" Gradwohl with his "so called" Panda cattle. He'd could add new genes to the breed and with Jack's beauitiful white belt, maybe up the chances of getting that belt on his Panda cattle that Gradwohl WASN'T getting! I contacted Gradwohl to see if he might be interested in purchasing him. He felt the $2,000.00 I wanted for him was too much as he didn't have papers. My comeback was, "What difference did that make because you're gonna put YOUR OWN REGISTRATION PAPERS on him?" I sent him the photographic records of his entire breeding back to my original cow and told him I wouldn't go any lower than $1,500.00. I hoped that Jack could MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF and make me proud of what I had bred.
Meanwhile a local breeder heard about Jack and contacted me about his purchase for $2,000.00. I told him he would be welcome to have Jack, if Gradwohl didn't want him for his breeding program. As much as I would have liked that other $500.00, I was WAY MORE INTERESTED in the hopes of Jack having a BIG PART in a NEW BREED!
Now that Gradwohl has Lightning Jack, he's lying about how he purchased him. He's claiming he's saved him from a slaughter house. This is only one of the many lies this man has come up with.
Just remember. BUYER BEWARE with ANYBODY you buy from.
Just a word to the WIZE. Before you purchase ANY of these Miniature cattle being bred, you REALLY need to ask all kinds of questions on their liniage and GET answers for those questions. Don't be afraid to ASK and SEE any testing results done on the animal/animals you want to buy. Above all........ask for writen PROOF that your animal is FREE from the BULLDOG GENE.
(full page to comeabout the Bulldog gene. It is now under construction. Your patience is appreciated.)
July 10, 2006
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