FEMALES
We have a herd that hovers around 60-70 pedigree beef shorthorn cows. They originate from about 17 different cow families. We use a combination of natural service, AI and ET in the breeding program.
This last year we have been cutting back our older cows and expanding the younger part of our herd, retaining as many female calves as possible from our outstanding sire LS Eagle 276.
Spring 2016 has brought the arrival of a very exciting new blood line. This is from the final phase of our long term planned embryo programme to introduce thick muscling into our herd from America and Canada.
2016 is also the year we are putting our newly acquired stock bull, Willingham Denebola onto these thicker cattle. He is the sire of the record price Willingham Formalhaut sold at Stirling Feb 2014 for £18,000. He has incredible figures for easy calving, short gestation length and growth. He is extremely easy fleshing and still holds a good score for muscling. So we are hoping he is going to take our cattle to the next level, retaining the shape and spring of rib our cattle are famous for and improving ease of fleshing and shorter gestation lengths to ensure nice small calves that grow quickly. We have also been using AI with Glenisla Zetor so it will be interesting to see how the calves compare!
Do pop by and have a look!