Native breeds photographs

[scholland]

This year's calf crop favourite

 

[jendan]

This year's calf crop favourite View attachment 1057585

Whats it like farming up there with you at the moment?

 

[scholland]

Whats it like farming up there with you at the moment?

Pretty good, been wet and windy all summer so the opposite of a lot of the country!

 

[Henarar]

New addition to the herd

 

[yellowbelly]

New addition to the herdView attachment 1058751

By heck, that's a massive calf. However big is the cow










......oh, you just bought it

 

[topground]

First appearance in the show ring at Mid Somerset for Sheeted Somerset cattle.

 

[Cowgirl]

Some calf pictures, 3 months to six days.

 

[Woolless]

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Plenty of grass there! It's on short supply here but the Herefords are still, of course, fat!

 

[Cowgirl]

Plenty of grass there! It's on short supply here but the Herefords are still, of course, fat!

That’s because it won’t stop raining - it was supposed to be dry this week

 

[Woolless]

That’s because it won’t stop raining - it was supposed to be dry this week

Completely opposite problem here! We had a bit at the start of last week and a little the week before but we're back to dust again. Fingers crossed the rain forecast for next week comes but we're running out of growing season anyway. Hay out to the cows yesterday

 

[Cowgirl]

Two young bulls we are using this year - both Traditional but very different types and bloodlines. People have preconceived ideas about what these cattle look like but there is quite a variation.

 

[JP1]

Two young bulls we are using this year - both Traditional but very different types and bloodlines. People have preconceived ideas about what these cattle look like but there is quite a variation.

I like the second one. Which do you prefer?

 

[Cowgirl]

I like the second one. Which do you prefer?

So do I, although he is shorter in the leg and not as heavy. However he has that undefinable thing “quality”, and a temperament so laid back he’s almost horizontal. He’s a son of @Woolless’s bull. The snag is his mother is a half sister to a very popular bull down south. The other one’s mother is the only living offspring of a 1977 MMB bull and has more modern breeding on his sire’s side so longer legged, bigger framed, heavier and darker coloured so maybe more commercial, and crosses well with the dumpier types. Horses for courses - both dams have excellent fertility and great udders and milk supply. It’s a hard job choosing which to keep as bulls.

 

[Woolless]

So do I, although he is shorter in the leg and not as heavy. However he has that undefinable thing “quality”, and a temperament so laid back he’s almost horizontal. He’s a son of @Woolless’s bull. The snag is his mother is a half sister to a very popular bull down south. The other one’s mother is the only living offspring of a 1977 MMB bull and has more modern breeding on his sire’s side so longer legged, bigger framed, heavier and darker coloured so maybe more commercial, and crosses well with the dumpier types. Horses for courses - both dams have excellent fertility and great udders and milk supply. It’s a hard job choosing which to keep as bulls.

Hero comes up with the goods again

 

[ilyria]

Middle White spotted in the local river

 

[Tim G]

Got ourselves a Whitefaced Woodland ram to run with 3 shearlings we bought as ewe lambs last year.

 

[ilyria]

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Got ourselves a Whitefaced Woodland ram to run with 3 shearlings we bought as ewe lambs last year.

Lovely looking chap, how's he bred?

 

[JP1]

Young bulls finally on a little bit of green grass and just about behaving themselves

 

[Tim G]

Lovely looking chap, how's he bred?

He is Earthingly Vitellius, out of Earthingly Trangacanth, by White House Wager.

 

[ilyria]

He is Earthingly Vitellius, out of Earthingly Trangacanth, by White House Wager.

I have his son