Kristofer-P Holterholm Lieutenant Kristofer born: August 2018 aAa: 342-615 • A2A2 BB/BB 
Our fall 2021 springing heifers are bred to Kristofer. We haven’t committed to using a single bull on heifers for a number of years, but Kristofer was an easy choice. He is a fine balance of strength and dairy traits, and he will work well in a variety of circumstances. He is the bull to choose for cows needing fertility, strength, and higher, wider and more supple udders. Kristofer started showing his strength as a very young calf when we were having trouble in extreme summer heat with a pathogen in some non-dried sawdust bedding, and he got a navel infection and had a 107 degree fever that persisted for days and days — we had to keep him cool with a hose every afternoon. Remarkably, he pulled through without any noticeable or lasting damage to his vitality . Strength is as strength does. The most accurate test of strength in any animal is what kind of challenge can the organism endure without damage. A lesser animal certainly would have died, and Kristofer came out unscathed. And it’s no wonder. Tracing his pedigree back 50 years, there many, many generations of quality animals. Kristofer is line-bred on both sides of his pedigree to Beledene Dukes Landy, and he’s also line-bred on both sides to Sunarchus, a bull bred by Dr. John Reber of the NorthCoast group that produced a lot of nice daughters and was the sire of Holterholm Lieutenant. Lieutenant is Kristofer’s sire and the sire of his maternal granddam. (Sunarchus also appears as the maternal granddam of Cornelia, Kristofer’s maternal great-granddad and herself a Landy daughter. Landy appears in Kristofer’s pedigree four times in the first five generations.) And there is no arguing with the longevity of the Lieutenant’s influence on grassfed dairying in the US. He was an exceptional bull with the kind of daughter’s you’d like a whole herd of. Kristofer’s dam is a really pleasant cow that doesn’t stand out, in a good way. She’s healthy, content and does her job without fuss (we ask a lot of our cows — to be a milk cow and to raise a calf — and some of them are real drama queens about it, but not Kris). She has a nice udder, breeds back and is a cow we’d like more of. Her averages for her fourth lactation are: 5.5% butterfat and 4.1% protein. Keep in mind that cows can and do hold back butterfat for their calves, and Kris does it less than other cows, but without a calf on her she would likely have a butterfat of around 6%. She completed her 3rd lactation with a SCC average of 38,000.
 
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*If purchasing sexed straws, we recommend purchasing a minimum of two sexed straws & one conventional straw OR one sexed & two conventional straws per cow.  If breeding multiple cows, you can round down somewhat because hopefully the law of averages means at least one of your cows settles on the first service, freeing up other straws for multiple services. You can use any additional straws next year.