Native breeds photographs

[Cowslip]

Near Gt Yarmouth? Is that where Charles Warton had all the dairy cows back in the day?

No alot further south

 

[Cowslip]

Good morning, couldn't resist taking this photo this morning, even the sheep are smiling at the lovely weather, I'm also well aware he is probably plotting his escape and death plan.

 

[jendan]

View attachment 1023822Good morning, couldn't resist taking this photo this morning, even the sheep are smiling at the lovely weather, I'm also well aware he is probably plotting his escape and death plan.

Borders?

 

[Cowslip]

Borders?

Yes only a handful, run mainly suffolk mules.

 

[topground]

The first Sheeted Somerset calf this year. A heifer.

 

[JSmith]

Here’s a pretty start to the day, beef shorthorn x British white 2nd calver with a limmy heifer calf!! One for the herd me thinks, based on markings alone!

 

[JP1]

View attachment 1025450Here’s a pretty start to the day, beef shorthorn x British white 2nd calver with a limmy heifer calf!! One for the herd me thinks, based on markings alone!

Interesting. Riggit markings that you sometimes see expressed in British Whites

 

[JP1]

View attachment 1025450Here’s a pretty start to the day, beef shorthorn x British white 2nd calver with a limmy heifer calf!! One for the herd me thinks, based on markings alone!

@egbert

 

[egbert]

@egbert

yup....lineback marking will almost certainly have come from Brit White, which are very prone to it when put with a solid colour beasts.
Shorthorn likely incidental in this matter....nice dam but!

 

[Cowslip]

pedigree south devon calfSouth devon cow with her lim x heifer calf

 

[Oliveau]

Lovely sight. Those fantastic long nose / faces with the contented calm SD expressions. Brings back many happy memories for me.

 

[Further a field]

View attachment 1026563View attachment 1026564pedigree south devon calfSouth devon cow with her lim x heifer calf

Nice sight ...good to see clean well bedded cattle too

 

[Cowslip]

Nice sight ...good to see clean well bedded cattle too

Thankyou

 

[Cowslip]

Lovely sight. Those fantastic long nose / faces with the contented calm SD expressions. Brings back many happy memories for me.

They are great, I walk among them they nearly all have a scratch, at night when all asleep they just open an eye look at me and go back to sleep and they are regularly snoring.

 

[Tim G]

A native breed in a different guise. We recently sent one of our Middle White pigs off to be made into charcuterie. It was the first time the maker had used a Middle White and they say they are very pleased with it. These bits are, from left to right, Guanciale, Lonza x2, and Coppa x2. There's also a couple of different salami, pancetta and a whole leg being cured for some sort of Italian ham.

 

[Woolless]

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A native breed in a different guise. We recently sent one of our Middle White pigs off to be made into charcuterie. It was the first time the maker had used a Middle White and the say they are very pleased with it. These bits are, from left to right, Guanciale, Lonza x2, and Coppa x2. There's also a couple of different salami, pancetta and a whole leg being cured for some sort of Italian ham.

Middle Whites are pretty rare nowadays, I think?

 

[Tim G]

Middle Whites are pretty rare nowadays, I think?

Three times more giant pandas in the world than Middle White pigs.

 

[Woolless]

Three times more giant pandas in the world than Middle White pigs.

Taste a lot better than panda, I would think

 

[BAF]

321 breeding middle whites according to Google and 1864 giant pandas.

 

[Tim G]

The first time I really saw Middle Whites was whilst at the Longhorn Cattle society's AGM when we visited Huntsham Court farm in Ross on wye. As well as the Longhorn cattle there, they also had Middle Whites and I remember them telling us that there were something like 220 registered breeding females in the uk, 120 of which were on that farm. This would have been about 8 years ago now.
I really took to them then, and we managed to get a couple of gilts in 2018 and have been breeding them since. We have kept a few gilts and sold some for breeding too, but most we finish and sell ourselves through our farm shop and at farmers markets. The pork really is exceptional.