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What concentration of Registered Jersey genetics would each generation have, beginning with a J1 cow?

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What concentration of Registered Jersey genetics would each generation have, beginning with a J1 cow?

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All J1 females will have at least 50% Jersey genes. The percentage could be greater than that, if the dam of the J1 female was part-Jersey. That dam cannot be recorded as a J1, however, for the simple fact that she is not sired by a Registered Jersey bull.