Who We Are
IJ Farms is Ida and Jerry Hulsey, two lifetime residents of the Yuba-Sutter region. Jerry married the farmer’s daughter, Ida Luis, in 1980. Together they lived on the Luis Dairy Farm until 1990 when they then moved to Yuba City and bought Jerry's family property, a whole 10 miles away.
After their move, Jerry started working for the Department of Labor for the Federal Government and Ida started her fitness business. After 20 years of fitness, Ida retired, wanting to enjoy being a grandmother. Her daughter, at this time, had three children and was also raising two Lamancha goats. Ida, being from a dairy farm of Holstein cows, wasn't too fond of them. However, her daughter then bought some Boer goats and Ida was hooked! Helping her daughter delivery babies and milking goats was as much a thrill as it had been with the cows and maybe even more of one. As they say, “You can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl.” This saying fits Ida to a T!
In 2009 Ida bought her first three goats at a Boers by Hobby sale. There she bought one buck and two does. Just around five years ago Jon Blevins joined the crazy family that is IJ farms and he integrated his herd of boer goats with Ida's. Ever since then IJ Farms has blossomed and grown into a much larger herd than just those three goats purchased at that Hobby sale a decade ago. Jon and Ida both share a passion for kids, both with two legs and with four. Watching the transformation that raising an animal has on youth is the reason that they do what they do. Today, IJ Farms now has thirteen bucks, seventy-five breeding does,eighty three doelings as well as wethers hitting the ground and then sold for fairs in several states.
