53m BB cow + 1m Blonde
bull calf to pounds 1,700; 49m BB cow + 1m Blonde hfr calf to pounds 1,620; 38m AA hfr + 1m Blonde
bull calf to pounds 1,340.
Top prices: Heifer with
bull calf: Sim - Lost, Strathdon PS2,450; Lim - Mains of Drumdollo, Drumblade PS2,400; LimX - Mains of Drumdollo PS2,300; SimX - Lost PS2,250; BBX - Mains of Drumdollo PS2,200; Cha - Mains of Drumdollo PS1,950; ShoX - Mains of Drumdollo PS1,900; AAX - Upper Ironside, New Deer PS1,500.
BB x cow + BB x
bull calf to PS1,760; BB x calves to PS1,280; 2013-born Blonde x cow + Lim x
bull calf to PS1,530; Lim x 1st calver + Lim x calf toPS1,530.
BREEDING CATTLE: Six outfits forward, selling to a top of PS1,550 for a Blue X cow and her blue
bull calf from JJ Phillips, Pandy, who also sold a young Limousin cow and Frie
bull calf at PS1,300 and a Lim cow and Limousin
bull calf at PS1,160.
The show was kindly sponsored by Carrs Billington and was ably judged by James Crichton, Loughrigg Farm, Egremont who awarded prizes as follows: Suckled
Bull Calf, born 2013, 1st - G & JC Watson, Orchard Farm with a British Blue sold for PS675.
But their caring ways became a web sensation when they posted a photo of them feeding the Simmental
bull calf in the kitchen.
I purchased two yearling heifers and soon after that a
bull calf. The following year I purchased a purebred Murray Grey yearling, and this past fall I purchased two registered Murray Grey weanlings.
Topping the prices was a 2001-born cow, Hafodlas Swyn, which fetched pounds 4,150 when sold with her
bull calf by Hafodlas Domino.
"We welcomed a new baby to the farm yesterday morning, a cute little dun Dexter
bull calf. It might have been a chilly 22 degrees when I saw him for the first time in the pasture, but he didn't let the chilly winter weather slow him down any.
The
bull calf is the second white rhino to be born at the park in the past six months.
You've probably heard the ancient tale of Milo who, at a very early age, began lifting a
bull calf everyday.
A small show of breeding cattle sold to PS1750 for a Simmental x heifer with Charollais
bull calf from Hannah.