Welcome to JK Herd It All, LLC
Hi everyone! We are Jess & Ken at JK Herd It All, and we thought we’d share a little info about ourselves.
After years of moving from place to place in the U.S. Navy, Ken met Jess in Illinois and whisked her away to start a new life in Wisconsin. He grew up raising horses in East Texas, and she was born & raised in the Chicago suburbs with a small zoo’s worth of traditional and exotic pets. Both of us always dreamed of having our own land and a few livestock - and here we are!
We both also work full-time - Ken is a senior in nuclear operations training and Jess is a senior in software engineering - so if you message and we're slow to reply (or completely forget), we’re probably at work or feeding something, fixing something, or chasing something.
We work with a handful of heritage and designer breeds and have been very intentional about the lines we started with. Our goal: preserve, improve, and showcase these breeds while doing right by the animals and the original people we purchased from.
Our priorities are, more or less in order:
1. Friendly personality
2. Ability to thrive under our management style
3. SOP (poultry) and conformation (goats)
4. Quality of production
5. Quantity of production
Our current breeds are:
DAIRY GOATS
• Mini Nubian (MDGA & TMGR • JKShrunkTheKids)
• Oberhasli (ADGA • JKHerdItAll)
• Guernsey (BGS & ADGA • JKHerdItAll)
POULTRY
• Chickens (All Large Fowl)
- Self-Blue (Lavender)/Black Split Ameraucana
- Svarthöna (Swedish Black Hen)
- Buckeye
- Partridge Chantecler
- Experimental Blue/Green Egger
• Pilgrim Geese
Feel free to check out our website, follow along on Facebook or Instagram, or send us a message if you're interested in learning more! For our goats, we annually test clean for CAE, CL, and Johne’s. For our birds, we are members of the National Poultry Improvement Plan, certified Salmonella Pullorum-Typhoid and HPAI Clean, and cleared to ship to almost every state. We’re happy to work with transporters, too!