Native breeds photographs

[Bopeep1981]

View attachment 342194 One for you @Bopeep1981 one at the front looks quite like his dad

He does! Lovely calves. Nice to see you enjoying some sunshine!

 

[Henarar]

Big V our ped shorthorn cow with her British blue cross calf

 

[Henarar]

Sam one of our belty cross south Devon heifers with her British blue steer calf
@JP1
@farmersam2

 

[topground]

Don't get much more native than this lot, Couldn't get close enough to take a proper photo so the close up is cheating!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Chillington?

Chillingford?

Something like that?

 

[Alicecow]

Chillington?

Chillingford?

Something like that?

Chillingham?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Aahh yes, that's it I reckon!

 

[James Stoyles]

Some of our March/April born Hereford cross calves out of various types of Galloway. All calved with out assistance and growing well off old pp.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

They look cracking!

 

[choochter]

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Some of our March/April born Hereford cross calves out of various types of Galloway. All calved with out assistance and growing well off old pp.

Do you finish these yourself, if so, how do they finish?

 

[James Stoyles]

Hi @choochter this is our first year with the Hereford cross. We do finish animals ourselves but our main aim is conservation grazing (we contract graze for various organizations). We have only been sending 6/7 year old steers to ABP (so take a massive hit due to age and grid). These have been pure Belted Galloway and are roughly 360-400 dead weight O+/R 4L/H. They are on lowland heath (rough grasses, heather, gorse) in summer and chalk grassland in winter with very late cut hay.
We are sorting the herd so we can kill animals earlier (30months) and have some contacts with local butchers. We hope the Hereford crosses will grow faster. I am thinking of introducing a WBS to cross with the cows to retain the females and put them to the Hereford to maximise the hybrid vigour.
I always enjoy the photos of your stock - thanks James

 

[Red Fred]

Here are a few of our beasties- Mollie is our Saddleback sow, while the woolies are Mrs. Fred's Greyfaced Dartmoors.

 

[James Stoyles]

Sire of the above calves. 1st photo is last year and 2nd photo is this year. He was born July 2013 so coming up to 3 years old.

 

[Forever Fendt]

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Sire of the above calves. 1st photo is last year and 2nd photo is this year. He was born July 2013 so coming up to 3 years old.

he looks to have stretched a bit polled or dehorned

 

[Henarar]

Here are a few of our beasties- Mollie is our Saddleback sow, while the woolies are Mrs. Fred's Greyfaced Dartmoors.

Flufffheads

 

[Cowgirl]

Since there seems to be a Hereford theme going on, here is our Traditional Hereford bull today, looking rather bored - he has a couple of cows with him but the rest won't be ready to visit him for another month.

 

[choochter]

Pure White bred shorthorn heifer & calf and Bazadaise X WS heifer & calf.

 

[Roy_H]

Thank goodness for that someone else has bloody buttercups, I wouldn't want to have them all to myself
Nice calf

A chap came to buy some hay off us. He looked across at our neighbours field and said " I didn't know. _______ grew rape" to which I replied "Actually its not rape its buttercups in his grass". Well they were quite thick to say the least!

 

[James Stoyles]

@Forever Fendt he is polled and a very good natured chap

 

[crofteress]

Baz x luings taken a few weeks ago, luing cows and baz bull, plus my favourite luing cow Arisaig Mist