The Morning Moo

12/18/2024

12/17/2024

📣Good morning Serama Mamas & Papas!
Ti's the season 🎊
We are so excited to see Arizona tabletop shows expand!

We are looking for more sponsors for this show to get quality awards ordered 🙌🏻 Three Waffles going at this time would love to fill those spots so we can draw $10/ticket 🎟 reach out if interested in tickets for these items!

~ BIG ASK!~

We will need everybody's help to make it happen!🎊 Every $1 helps. Youth opportunities were a big consideration for this event.
~Expansion will bring attention to this beautiful breed and new member exhibitors.

Looking forward to generous sponsorships that will be listed with gratitude at our show 🙏!

~Sponsorship & Donations to be paid to~

PayPal: [email protected]

12/14/2024

As a tribute to the one who started it all and a testimony of our daughters love of Jersey cows & long term agricultural project.

~DOLLY Moo~

Our family made the decision a few years ago to take on a family milk cow. We were hoping for a cow that was easy to milk, who had some training and experience under her belt, and one who would be patient with us while we figured it out. I had raised beef cattle so how different could this be right? Lol.. IYKYK! Worlds apart..

All we could identify were dairy culls going through sale yard auctions or jersey nurse cows. Neither have had the vetting, evaluations, genomics, registration, or training that we were looking for as a future family cow and ag project for our daughter. What we did find is a malnourished Moo raising a massive beef calf who had the sweetest face imaginable! Meet our first Dolly Moo 🥰.

Dolly stood lovely for us while we figured out how to manage hoses machines and hands around a milking udder ✋️! We ultimately lost our Dolly to a blood infection after she gave us a beautiful little heifer calf we named Molly. Molly is raising beef calves of her own now in Sanoita Arizona.

The life and rehabilitation of Dolly sparked the life of Jillians Dairy cattle breeding program 💝

We miss you Dolly, your legacy will be calves that hit the ground here that are hand picked, and hand raised to be family cows 🥹. You taught us how cool jerseys are and how important mentorship is when taking on a dairy animal. Stewardship is everything and it takes a village!

Thank you to our village! Seeing the first of these babies hit the ground in 2024 has been a massive blessing to our family 🥰

12/14/2024

This tracks..

🎁JOs Farms Christmas Preparedness..

God Bless this mess! 🤗

12/10/2024

What is “Hang Weight”? One of the most common questions we get when selling beef shares. This is most easily described with a picture of a whole carcass, so it can be visualized.

Hang weight, also known as carcass weight or hot hang weight, is the weight of a steer once the head, hide, hooves, and innards are removed exactly as you see in the below picture. This is the price 95% of producers charge on for their shares as you are buying a share of a live animal, choosing to have it processed, and that is the most fair and accurate way to provide its weight.

A common misconception is when you pay hang weight, that’s the meat weight you’ll get back in the freezer. Unfortunately, there is some loss during processing that will equate to getting back around 65% in actual finished meat weight in the freezer, this number is closer to 50-55% if you choose all boneless cuts.

About 10% of that loss is from reduced moisture from the aging process, another 10% is trimming and inedible aged portions of the beef or connective tissue. Then the remainder is bones, tendons, and excess fat. You have the option to keep the bones and fat if you would like with your share in most cases, as you are already paying for its respective weight in the hang weight.

For an example of this let’s say you have a 450lb hang weight. You’ll get about 65% of that back in finished meat with bone in cuts - or 292lbs - NOT including the extra bones/fat/organs. If you chose boneless cuts it would be about 250lbs. Regardless of how you have it cut, you’ll always be paying on that 450lb hang weight. For halves and quarters, take the above numbers and divide in half or fourths!

We’re always happy to clarify this further for folks new to buying shares!

12/06/2024

Okay, Sir Casino. Today we pray for you to have lightening speed, high motility, and to be of superior quality.

IYKYK
As Always,
Thank you for your service!

12/05/2024

Miracles happen every day!

Always Blessed 🙌🏻

~The Morning Moo 🌄

12/02/2024

~PENDING SALE~

📣Being offered for your consideration!
Barn Name: FALINE
DOB: May 7th 2024
This is an exceptional heifer that will have tremendous versatility as a family milk cow & or youth project.
~Registered
~A2/A2 🎊
~hand raised
~standard size
~extensively handled
~genomic & disease testing completed🏅
~Parentage Verified

Special consideration to a youth show home, from a youth show home 🏡!
Cost of this calf is for the benefit of existing expenses, jersey genomic expansion into Arizona program cattle, and any profits saved for future schooling expenses.

Message us with serious inquiries.

This one is going to make someone very happy and we are super proud of how she has grown out!

Best Wishes,

Jillian
(JOs Farms)

12/01/2024

JOs Farms was well represented at the Fancy Fowl Poultry show in Tuscon Arizona over the weekend!
We were so busy I didn't have time to take many photos. Hopeful the other club mama's took a few more 😅. We are always learning, some of these kids are professionals and multi generation showman with a wealth of knowledge! Jill brought home class champion in showmanship and her birds did well also! Huge win for the serama breed to be well represented & for the kids who worked so hard to compete in showmanship.