Jersey bore warning - this post of little interest to anyone not fairly obsessed with Jersey cows...
Hillie is Wheelbirks Impulse Scent. Dad is Q IMPULS DJHB (the Danes have such interesting names, huh? Not.)
A neighbour used to have one of the top-performing Jersey herds in the country and talks about them often, clearly still missing them very much. One day she talked about a bull she bred for the AI, and BH said that if I could track down a descendent of that bull, I could have my house cow.
Well that bull didn't get used a great lot but I did follow the line of another bull bred from one of her cows after it was sold and found that several cows carried the bloodline at Wheelbirks. I love Wheelbirks, it's a lovely Jersey dairy farm and now shop and cafe, selling raw milk & cream, fabulous ice-cream, and their own Jersey beef. (Best burgers I have ever had.) So I told them the story and asked them if there was any chance of buying a cow or heifer with that bloodline. Hillie is the result, and I was very very lucky that her first calf is also a heifer (my atavar - not the most flattering pic, mind!) Plenty's dad is DANISH RY FREDERICK DJHB.
Whereabouts was the herd you used to look after? Would any of your girls have made it up here to Cumbria?