{"id":53021,"date":"2025-09-09T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53021\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:45:11","slug":"from-one-cow-on-10ac-to-a-global-legacy-how-this-family-built-a-jersey-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53021\/","title":{"rendered":"From one cow on 10ac to a global legacy \u2013 how this family built a Jersey dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">How summer work in the Channel Islands, a four-generation passion for the breed, Canadian imports and a focus on large cows have taken the Potterswalls herd to some of the biggest prizes available, with many cows producing over 10,000 litres per lactation\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lyndsay, Ashley and Kensy Fleming of Potterswalls Jersey herd in Co Down\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/45731acd-d4b3-4a5c-b52a-d63679efe817.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lyndsay, Ashley and Kensy Fleming of Potterswalls Jersey herd in Co Down<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Co Down is known for the rugged Mourne mountains, Strangford Lough and the sandy beaches of the Ards peninsula, and hidden amongst the rolling drumlins the county is also home to the world-renowned Potterswalls Jerseys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jerseys began their journey on the farm in 1970 with the purchase by Kensy Fleming of what was to be a house cow named Coleraine Royal Variety \u2013 bought to supply milk for the house on what was a 10ac holding which kept pigs, sheep and suckler cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How summer work in the Channel Islands, a four-generation passion for the breed, Canadian imports and a focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[38882,38881,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dairy-farm-profiles","9":"tag-dairy-pedigree","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}