Blankvoort Klaas-Jan

The dark-red Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) bull Blankvoort Klaas-Jan is bred and raised by Karel Fentsahm from Lochem. He was approved for the herd book by the breeding counsel and was awarded 88 points. He showed that he is a sturdy built, well-muscled bull with good feet & legs. 

 

The bull Ids is the sire of Klaas-Jan, bred and raised by Landgoed Archem which is a farm with very impressive cows. Klaas-Jan’s dam Blankvoort Hetty is a daughter of Mijntje’s Thijn, who is from the valuable breeding cow Willie’s Mijntje (from the Boink family from Udenhout, the Netherlands). Overall, a well-developed maternal line. 

 

The Dutch Belted (Lakenvelders) of Karel Fentsahm are still raised on the farm where his father-in-law Jan Schutte used to raise MRIJ cattle. So it’s not too difficult to guess which type of Lakenvelder they prefer to see in Veenweg, the Netherlands.

 

Except for great-grandmother Willie’s Mintje, all the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents have the red colouring. It’s not surprising that Klaas-Jan is very suitable in terms of bloodline for the average Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) population. Especially given that at both the Fentsahm farm and at Landgoed Archem the choice is to work with (herd) bulls the natural way. Klaas-Jan does not have any Red Belted bulls such as Cor, Jeroen, Meindert, Alwin, Bartus, Lennard in his pedigree.

 

The breeding counsel saw the first yearling calves of Klaas-Jan last autumn at Bennie Hulsman in Vilsteren. He had seventeen calves there. Ten of whom had a belt worthy of the herd book, 3 of them had belts on the small side, 3 had belts on the wide side and one was irregular. The calves showed no other white, other than that of the belt. The Commission was nonetheless positive. The Mulder family in Staphorst is expecting calves from them this year.