The Northern Alberta Holstein Club has sent out their Summer Newsletter!
Millet Show
The Northern Alberta Holstein Club is once again hosting the 8th annual open show at the Millet Agriplex. We encourage all breeders to come out and exhibit their heifers and cows. It will be a fun filled two days with a family barbeque on Friday July 18th, 2014 starting at 7pm.The show will be on Saturday July 19, 2014 starting at 11:00am. A barbeque lunch will follow the show sponsored by Cargill. This year’s judge will be Tom Hofstra. Deadline for entries is July 16th, 2014 to ensure inclusion in the show program. Please email all entries to [email protected] or fax to our secretary Katelyn Kozak at 780- 878-3851.
Lists of eligible classes here
Registration Form here
NAHC Golf Day
The Northern Alberta Holstein Club is encouraging members to come out for a fun day of golf! It will be held Wednesday July 30, 2014 at Pipestone Lynx in Millet, AB.Four tee times have been booked for 10:00am start time. Participants are to look after their own costs for the day. For more information contact director Derek Wassink at 780-719-5250.
NAHC Barn Cow Award
The Northern Alberta Holstein Club is pleased to announce we have a new contest for members! The Barn Cow Award is geared for members who rarely or never bring theircows out to our club’s or other local shows. It will give these members a chance to show off their very best hard working barn cow of the club! Our judge is Erik Klugkist and he will travel with an NAHC executive member to the entered contestants’ farms starting Septermer 1-12th, 2014. There will be 5 classes, 1st lactation, 2nd lactation, 3rd lactation and 4th+ lactation and to make our contest unique, a 100, 000kg class. Cows are judged based on conformation amongst other entries throughout the club. The production class will be a mix of conformation and reading over production certificates. They have to be homebred and owned cows, and they do not have to be washed, clipped, and filled or uddered up very much, and must not have been exhibited at an All Western Show before. Just set the cow aside in a pen in the barn and she can be assessed. Entries close by Monday August 25th, 2014. If you are interested in it please contact one of our directors or send us an e-mail at [email protected] and we can get an entry form sent to you!
Digital Newsletters
The Northern Alberta Holstein Club is excited to launch our e-mail address. Starting with the Summer 2014 newsletter we will be e-mailing them rather than snail mail in order to help reduce the use of paper products. Our secretary will be using NAHC member e-mails that are listed in the 2012 Alberta Breeder Directory. If you have changed your e-mail since, please send your new address to [email protected] to receive your newsletter. We will still send out mail through Canada Post for members who don’t have or wish to use e-mail.
Thank-You
The NAHC would like to thank Tim and Deb Hofstra and Arjan and Heidi De Langeof Detimdale Holstiens for hosting the NAHC Judging School on May 17, 2014.It was very well attended and all members enjoyed the pizza lunch sponsored by Detimdale Holsteins. Also thanks to Tom Hofstra for being the official judge. Thank- you for all your hard work put into this event, the heifers and cows looked really good and were well presented! Also Thank-you to the members who came out to participate!