1 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 2 Editorial Society News...... 6-7 Breed Secretary’s Report...... 9 Welcome 2014 Conference Sale Preview...... 10-11 To the 2014 Spring edition of the Ayrshire Journal. Breed Heritage Report...... 15 Peter Drummond’s Finland Report...... 18 2014 already, and what a start, Ayrshire Diary...... 22 Edward’s Update...... 28 gales, storms and floods. I hope 2013 All Britain & Ireland Photographic Comp...... 29-33 that all our Ayrshire members have Dairyco Breeding+ article...... 36-37 not been too badly affected. In Sale Report...... 41 Cornwall, as many of you will see in Junior Vice President article - Robert Adams...... 42-43 May, it is the coastline that took the Show Results...... 46-47 brunt of the damage, being heavily Classifications/Club Cows/ Prod. Star Awards...... 48-54 Club News...... 56-58 battered and severely bruised by the storms and huge seas. Life must go Advertisers on, and with milk prices risen to a Adams R T & J I...... 44 reasonable level, it always helps to Adamson J & Son...... 39 soften these climatic problems. Alderson D...... 38 Almins Ltd...... 37 Armstrong M/s...... 16 It is pleasing to note that the Society and its members are buoyant at present Baynes G G & Son...... 4 with a big influx in registrations to start the year, and an increased entry of Berresford D & P...... 8 quality Ayrshires and Red and Whites at the Dairy Expo and it is this buoyancy Broadley J D & B F...... 45 and enthusiasm that increases demand and time required of our staff, “an active Cattle Services (Ayr) Ltd...... BC Cheshire County Show...... 15 Society is usually a successful Society”. Christophers W R C & J E...... 25 Cornwall Ayrshire Breeders’ Club...... 26 By the time that you read this, we will have just completed the 2014 Young Cromie & McLean M/s...... 23 Members Event in the Midlands where bookings are ever increasing for this most Embryonics...... 26 important and popular event. This section is of primary importance to our Society East Church Ayrshires...... 19 Gordon T...... 16 and we look forward to welcoming over 40 youngsters to mix, socialize, learn and Howe T...... 20 compete over the three days and we also hope that many supporters will take the HUKI...... 12 time to attend and observe these young members showing the older generation Hunter J & M...... 35 how to do it. In July at this year’s Livestock event, the youngsters will again be at Jenkin P...... 20 their best, managing, preparing and exhibiting animals for the showring. A team Lashburn Ayrshires...... IBC effort, which I expect to match last year’s and be superb! All will be on display for Lawrie A & S...... 21 Lilburn H...... 14 the World Federation Members attending the show. NMR...... 55 Packer & Rowe M/s...... 34 The AGM and Conference will soon be upon us (12th-14th May) when we look RABDF...... 28 forward to welcoming you to Cornwall, for Cornish cows, food, hospitality and Roskilly M/s...... 40 entertainment. “A BIT OF PROPER CORNISH”. Smartmove Ayrshires...... 27 Suffern J...... 34 Templeton G...... 17 This just leaves me to thank everyone, all the staff and the members that have Tomlinson B...... IFC helped me in my year of presidency, and also for their great hospitality. Have USA Ayrshire Breeders’ Association...... 13 a great year in the showring, the parlour and bank balance with your Pedigree Walters M/s...... 5 Ayrshires. Windel M...... 24

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marleycote ayrshire advert march 2014.indd 1 15/03/2014 08:22:16 5 The Ayrshire Journal Society News Spring 2014 Office Up-date World Federation Meeting

I am delighted to report that in July, the Society will host the 2014 Executive Meeting of the World Federation of Ayrshire Breeders which is scheduled to coincide with Livestock 2014. Delegates from around the world will come together to discuss key topics pertinent for the Ayrshire breed.

The office has been extremely busy with many members choosing the If you are visiting Livestock, pop on to the Society stand for the opportunity festive period to catch up with registrations, with 1,844 registrations to meet the delegates. Special thanks to our sponsors to-date including: completed in the two month period to the end of February compared GEA, Cattle Services, RABDF, Blue Merle Ltd and Richard Keenan & Co. with 986 for the same period last year. A high level of registrations John Cochrane combined with DNA administration, general enquiries and bookings for the Annual Conference and Young Breeders Events, together with the usual schedule of end of year meetings, has resulted in a very busy start to the year, especially with Lesley Hoggitt absent. Livestock Event 2014

Irene Kirkpatrick kindly agreed to work one day a week during Lesley’s absence, and this combined with support from other staff meant that there was no disruption to member services. I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to Irene Kirkpatrick, Elaine Drummond and John Cochrane who all mucked in to help out in the office to cover Lesley’s work. Lesley’s treatment went well and I am delighted to report that Lesley returned to work on the 4th March.

DNA Testing Weatherby’s Laboratory have notified us of a price increase which will be effective from 1st March 2014. All prices from this date will be increased by £1+vat making a profile cost £13+vat and a parentage £17+vat. Please ensure that when you are requested to submit samples that you do so at the earliest opportunity. It takes around 2-3 weeks to get results back and the sooner we have the samples, the quicker we can get the The 2nd and 3rd of July promises to be the highlight for the Ayrshire results and process your registration. Lesley Craig breed yet again at Livestock 2014. We would like to encourage as many breeders as possible to exhibit their stock to put on a showcase for all to see. There will be delegates from all over the Ayrshire world in Advertising Rates For Members attendance for the world federation meetings so let’s show them what the UK has to offer!

Page - £180 + VAT Our very talented young breeders will again be available to prepare and Half - £110 + VAT show your cattle for you, if you so wish, under my supervision. Please contact me for more information or to receive a schedule! Quarter - £85 + VAT Also all handlers in the Ayrshire classes will be wearing a new uniform Members can take three consecutive full page or half exclusively for the Livestock show. This could possibly be the new breed page adverts at a reduced rate. Please contact the uniform for the future, so please come along to view so that your views Society office for further details. Closing date for the are counted for the future. Details will be sent to all exhibitors nearer the next journal is 31st July. time. Duncan Hunter The Ayrshire Journal 6 G

Obituaries Club competitions or their local or county show. Being a woman in a Robert Carruth man’s world was no barrier to Janet, and when she judged the Ayrshire The sudden and unexpected death of Robert Carruth has robbed the section at the Royal Highland in 1991, she broke the mould by being the farming world and the Ayrshire breed of one of its great philosophers. first woman to do so. A similar judging assignment in the Ayrshire ring Robert, the seventh generation to farm at High Auchensale, was deeply at the Royal Ulster gave her immense pleasure, as she had a soft spot interested in his fellow human beings, and instilled the same values in for Northern Ireland and its people. She shared with them the ability to his own family of three sons and a daughter. Although we think of him be totally honest whether giving praise or criticism which was always as a very successful breeder, and he was immensely proud to have five constructive and never negative. She had a special gift of summing up bulls in AI, all at the same time. He had always been involved in politics a cow, a situation or person with a shrewd comment that was spot on. and education, and at the time of his death was still involved with the When the time came to take things easy, with the sale of the herd, Janet NFU as well as the project nearest to his heart, the education of children and Hugh had time to enjoy life, and they became interested spectators on farming, and he was often to be seen in class rooms all around at shows and sales both in Scotland and Ireland. In 2008, their immense Renfrewshire, where his work with the Royal Highland Educational Trust contribution to the Ayrshire breed was recognised when they were gave him great pleasure. Predeceased by his wife Margaret in 2008, presented with the Society’s special achievement award, fittingly at Robert was aged 76. Brocklehill, source of many of their herd sires. Her other big passion was growing and exhibiting roses, and their retirement to Stranraer gave John Gregson her more time to indulge that passion. Unsurprisingly, she was even John Gregson died in January aged 68 years. He lived and farmed at more successful, and she denominated the prize list for many years. Her Slate Farm, Mawdesley all of his life. He was married to his wife Margaret presence and personality will be sorely missed at Ayrshire events. for 47 Years and had three children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A keen member of the North West Ayrshire Club, he was Chairman in 1972, while his wife Margaret has been Secretary of the New Members club since 1995. He was a great supporter of the club and hosted the J Boaden, Skewes Farm, Cury, Helston, Cornwall first few of their calf shows at Slate farm. These were wonderful family A Bolderston, The New Bungalow, The Street, Norwich occasions, with calves for anyone to show, a game of rounders and a C Bosher, Hitcham House Farm, Lent Rise Road, Burnham splendid hog roast provided by John. The Mawdesley herd was about T J Boughton & Son, Worden Farm, Bradworthy, Devon 80 strong, winning many of the herd competitions and shows in the J Davidson, Berryhill Farm, Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen North West and also having lots of success nationally. With daughters R Drummond, Osliebrae, Old Glasgow Road, Stewarton of his famous stock bull, Pant Wizard, he won the Hindmarsh Trophy on R J Moore, Newsham Hall Farm, Preston Lancs two consecutive years, with different sets of cows. At the Royal Show, he Junior won the progeny and open groups and at the Scottish Winter Fair he was Lucy Clements, 25 Grecian Street, Maidstone, Kent reserve champion on two occasions, whilst at the Dairy event, he won Megan Clifford, 19 Frithwood Close, Downswood, Kent breed champion on three occasions. John’s whole life was centred on Pippa Davies, Hitcham House Farm, Lent Rise Road, Burnham farming and family, and even though in later years they milked black and Karl Heaslip, Drumeagle, Crosserlough, Rep. Of Ireland white cows, his heart was always very much with the Ayrshire cow – but Leanna Jacks, 4 Ramsey Close, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent it had to be a good one. Lucy Jerman, Penyffridd, Castle Caereinion, Welshpool, Powys Ross Limond, Pinmerry Farm, Maybole, Ayrshire John Lamb Ava and Leiza Montgomery, 144 Saintfield Road, Temple John Lamb who developed the famous Richhill herd in Co Armagh, has David Oultram, 37 Hilltop Close, Ewloe, Deeside, Flintshire died in his 88th year. Along with other pioneers of the breed like Ian Conor Russell, 6 Heathorn Street, Maidstone, Kent Duncan of Lennymore and the Suffern boys of Ballyclan, he was one of founding fathers of the breed in Northern Ireland. In the early fifties, John purchased a 200 acre farm near Richhill and it wasn’t long before Diary Dates the predominantly Shorthorn herd was replaced by Ayrshires with great success, with bulls being sourced from famous herds in Ayrshire like May 2 South West Ayrshire Show & Sale - Exeter Willoxton, Hobsland, Parkmill and Balig. Along with his flare for cattle 12-14 AGM & Annual Conference - Cornwall breeding, John served on many public bodies, like the Milk and the Wool 14-16 Balmoral Show Board and he also served terms as Chairman of the Ulster Club and was June 5-7 Royal Cornwall Show a staunch supporter of the Y. Farmers movement and his local church. 17-18 Cheshire County Show 19-22 Royal Highland Show Janet McWilliam 25-26 Royal Norfolk Show Well known and respected breeder and judge, Janet McWilliam, has July 2-3 Livestock Event died after a short illness. From small beginnings, along with her husband 2-4 World Federation Ayrshire Meeting Hugh, they developed the Low Barnultoch herd with hard work coupled 8-10 Great Yorkshire Show with a large amount of skill, until the Low Barnultoch herd was well 21-24 Royal Welsh Show known, not only in its homeland but around the world. Over the years, Sept. 4 Breed Judging Seminar - Blannicombe Farm the successes were impressive, whether winning Society competitions, 17 UK Dairy Day 7 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 8 Breed Secretary’s News... By John Cochrane

It is hard to believe that this is my ninth year of writing this page, and when he needs them too. Please keep that passion going so that other sadly, this will be my last one as your Breed Secretary as I have decided generations can enjoy the Ayrshire cow. Yes, she too has to change, but to relinquish that post after this year’s AGM. It is always hard to decide not to the extent of losing her identity. on the right time to bow out, but for me, now is the time. I have always been my own biggest critic, and it became very apparent at the last One of the great thrills for me has been the friendship and support of Council meeting that my ambitions for the Ayrshire breed and its future my Young Members, who have been incredible, and I have often found are at a different level to those of others. myself buoyed up and carried along by their enthusiasm and energy. If they are given the opportunity to express their potential, the breed will My wife tells me that I expect too much of people, and she is probably grow and prosper, and I look forward to watching that happen. right, but I make no apology for making my priority the promotion and improvement of the Ayrshire breed as, in my view there is no other reason Most jobs have a downside and an upside, and for me the upside has for having an Ayrshire Society. If you just want to register ancestry and been the many friends I have made, both here and around the world, performance we have that facility, and I am happy to provide as good a whose passion and enthusiasm for the breed has helped me on many service as is possible for my members benefit, but that very much takes occasions, when it would have been easier for me to walk away. You second place to promoting Ayrshires. have been an inspiration to me especially my other Breed Secretaries and Presidents from the World Federation countries especially Becky However, I don’t think that I am asking too much of my members or Payne, Linda Ness and Mirja Koljonen, who kept me afloat when the colleagues by asking them to put the Ayrshire breed first and their waves threatened to engulf me. I also have to mention Maggie Howie, own interests second, either in the Society or in our cattle breeding Colin Christophers and especially Arthur Lawrie for all their help and company. That is not a situation I personally can live with or ignore. Time support when I needed it most. is everyone’s enemy, and in an endangered species like the Ayrshire, the sands are running out fast, if the breed is to have a future. A big thank you must go to my colleagues in the office – Lesley, Irene and the girls, and to my colleagues in the field who have had to put up I have been lucky to have worked with eight great Presidents, especially with my deficiencies especially my close colleague and friend Duncan, Willie Adamson and John Broadley, who had the foresight and courage who has managed to cajole, encourage and guide me through the last to introduce and implement the use of CDI programmes in the face three years. Duncan has a big job in front of him, but he is one of the of well meaning, but misguided, opposition from a small minority of most talented and capable young men in the cattle breeding world, not breeders. Change is very hard for some people to accept, and I realise only here but around the world. I cannot think of a better man in whom that, but when you come to a crossroads in any walk of life, you have to to entrust the future of the Ayrshire cow. Lastly, I must thank the many make a choice on whether to be brave and go down an unknown route members who have befriended me and believed and supported me in or turn back, but one thing is for certain is that unless you choose to go what I have tried to achieve, and I hope that I have not let you down. forward, you are going nowhere. For me “turn” back does not even enter my mind. I still mean to continue to work for a brighter future for the Ayrshire cow whenever the opportunity arises, whether it is here, Europe or the other Through my work, I have made so many great friends who share my side of the world, and who knows, we might yet see the breed receive passion for Ayrshires, I am sure they will be equally there for Duncan the popularity and credit it deserves. 9 The Ayrshire Journal Conference Sale Cornwall 2014

Here we are yet again, with another conference sale offering several lots of semen and embryos that I am sure will appeal to many! The semen sale is kindly sponsored by Cattle Services and included are many favourites from the past and more recently. Rosehill Blackthorn EX - Sired by the great Blackadder BBK Kellogg, and out of the Brocklehill Happy Spirit daughter Rosehill Bramble, Blackthorn has certainly had a huge impact within our breed over recent years. Showing an impressive +1.7 on type, and being a protein improver, he has made quite an impact in many herds. Use Blackthorn to improve legs and feet and to tighten up foreudder attachments. He has sired some great progeny including the EX 96 Rosehill Black Velour, the world renowned Rosehill Black Magenta EX 93, and the young sire that is making a huge impact in the Knowe herd, Richaven Provider EX 95. Bankend Nucleus EX - Another sire that has made the headlines over the years! From the great Wren family at Bankend, and sired by Pant Great Scot, there is not much in this pedigree that one cannot admire. Nucleus daughters are known for their fantastic temperament and great Wroughton Janet 2 EX 94 udders with super attachments. Famous daughters of Bankend Nucleus these embryos we have two generations of EX 94 and a sire stack of include - Hunnington Fragrance 25 EX 92, East Church Ambrosia EX 92 Celandine First Lord x Mawdesley Bright Beam x Pant James Bond x and McCornick Ila 9 EX 93. Brocklehill Bank Book. Wroughton Janet 2 herself has been a contract Langside Impact - Born in 1975, this P. Scottish Welcome sired son, cow and of course bred Wroughton Lord Winston. Wroughton Janet’s out of Langside Bloomer 29, has made an “Impact” in many breeders dam, Wroughton Ruby 2 EX 94, has bred four Excellent daughters, is a herds. He shows to be a positive improver for protein and will improve three star brood cow and has produced over 90,000kg in her lifetime. somatic cell counts. Again, this sire has a good number of excellent Another interesting fact is that Janet scored EX 95 for legs and feet in her daughters with many in the Langside, Killoch and Croftside herds. seventh lactation and her dam Ruby scored an amazing EX 97 for legs Townhead Dahlia`s Juror EX - From three generations of Excellents and feet in her twelfth lactation. On the sire side of these embryos, we including his dam Townhead Dahlia, this “fella” has been a favourite for have Haresfoot Panache whose predicted figures are quite impressive. many over the years. As well as being a component improver for both +474 kg +0.06% bf and a massive PLI of £131! He is a son out of yet butterfat and protein, he will also dramatically improve on somatic cell another EX 94 cow, Haresfoot Enigma Pamela, whose type, production counts. He also scores well on his linear traits for both foot angle and and components can’t fail to impress. Make sure you take the last bid! udder depth. Probably his most famous daughter has to be the great Hunnington Sailor Girl 29, classified Excellent, a four star brood cow, and having achieved well in excess of 100,000 kg of milk in her lifetime. He also has had an influence in the great Lark family from Millford. Celandine First Lord - This Bankend Lord Ontario son, out of the four star brood cow Changue Celandine 21, optimises what many believe as an ideal breeding tool. He shows a plus on milk production and butterfat improvement and carries a very respectable PLI of £70. Most impressive of all he is a massive somatic cell count improver with -24!! His linear shows that his daughters will inherit a better foot angle, stronger foreudder attachments and improvement in udder support over their dams. Temperament is also desirable in his daughters. A number of excellent daughters of First Lord are evident in the Devas herd, and of course the much admired Wroughton Janet 2 EX 94 is a tribute to these facts. If one of these sires has worked for you in the past then why not purchase a batch of 10 straws.

Again we have a very exciting consignment of embryos for you to choose from, from both the UK and overseas. With home families forward such Rosehill Magenta EX 94 8E as Janet, Magenta, Ella, Winsome and Sea Lily, and from Lashburn Ayrshires in Canada we have a real treat in a descendant from the great Four Embryos - Rosehill Magenta EX 94 8E x either Rosehill Mona family. Blackthorn, Castern Tornado or Palmyra Tri-Star Reality (On Three Embryos - Wroughton Janet 2 EX 94 X Haresfoot Panache Choice) (Eligible for Export) : 100% Ayrshire (Eligible for Export) : 94% Ayrshire If you are looking for a family to The Magentas from Rosehill need no introduction. This offering brings inject some longevity into your herd then look no further. The last four to you a choice of sires from old Rosehill Magenta herself. As a proven generations of this family have averaged over eight lactations. Behind breeder, Magenta already has produced the famous Rosehill Black

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Magenta EX 93, and you have the option to take those exact bloodlines if you chose Blackthorn as the sire. Alternately you may wish to opt for the American giant Palmyra Tri-Star Reality or the British sire Castern Tornado. The choice is yours! Magenta has already achieved the two star brood cow status, and has produced in excess of 80,000kg of milk to date. There is a good chance that the resulting embryos will make a seventh successive generation of VG and EX cows. You should also note that Rosehill Magenta’s PLI has lifted to £74 which gives her the added bonus of any progeny being of interest to AI companies. Don’t miss out on this one! Four Embryos - Flintstone Conn Ella VG 88 X Palmyra Reality Gibbs (Eligible for Export) : 100% Ayrshire From five generations of VG/EX comes the chance to purchase embryos from a great young cow, Flintstone Conn Ella. This is a granddaughter of the world renowned Haresfoot Ella 47 EX 94 and out of the EX 91 4E Haresfoot Easlad Ella. Heydale Winsome 110 EX 93 3E Flintstone Conn Ella won the admiration of many of the conference delegates who visited the Flintstone herd in 2012. She has produced a top yield of over 9100 kg in her second lactation and produces high 12,621 kg of milk in 305 days. Her dam is Sea Lily 2 VG 88 LP60, and quality milk with protein averaging 3.6%. The sire of these embryos is a her G Dam is Marleycote Sea Lily EX 93 two Star Brood cow who has young sire from the USA Palmyra Reality Gibbs. A Reality son, out of the produced five EX/VG daughters. Palmyra Reality Gibbs is the sire of this famous Palmyra Raven S Ginger VG 89 who has twice been All American, consignment which brings together a very exciting opportunity to have and is bred from four generations VG/EX. The family behind Gibbs also high yields, great type and much longevity all rolled into one for the lucky demonstrates outstanding longevity with the last nine generations of purchaser of this lot! Production and type in a package for you! dams averaging seven lactations each, with none completing less than Choice of three or four Embryos Heydale Winsome 110 EX 93 3E five. Little wonder that he promises so much for the future. If you ever x Palmyra Tri-Star Burdette (Eligible for Export) : 100% Ayrshire fancied an Ella, look no further! Here we have a family that constantly produces high type and high Lashburn Million Dollar Baby VG 87 2YR x Forever Schoon Eiffel yielding progeny and are the envy of many of our breeders. So here, : 100% Ayrshire Bringing together some of the most exciting genetics available to all, is an embryo package which will I am sure be much from Canada, Lashburn Ayrshires have offered a very attractive package. sought after! Winsome 110 EX 93 3E is a fourth generation VG/EX who Lashburn Million Dollar Baby, who has been nominated as All Canadian is now in her 6th lactation and has produced three lactations of over 2013, is a Jelyca Oblique daughter out of the great Faucher Medalist 10,000 kg, as well as her only milking daughter having already achieved Mona EX 94 4E, and a granddaughter of the world famous Faucher an EX 90 status. Her dam was the two star brood cow Heydale Winsome Kellogg Lorna EX 90. Faucher Medalist Mona was Grand Champion 88 EX 92 LP 60, another consistent high yielding cow with the looks to at the Ormstown Fair in 2009. Forever Schoon Eiffel is the sire of this match! On the sire’s side, we have Palmyra Tri-Star Burdette, his first package. He is a Margot Calimero son out of Forever Schoon Edith 2 VG milking daughters in the UK are of great interest, all with good hard tops, 88 who is a very high yielding production cow with top quality milk. This lots of width through the front end and through their rumps, showing lot should be of interest to everyone! great bone quality throughout and have silky udders. Take the last bid Five Embryos - Marleycote Sea Lily 14 VG 89 x Palmyra Reality and you will be sure to win something! Gibbs (Eligible for Export) : 87.5% Ayrshire How fortunate we are to be offered another consignment of embryos from this great young cow, This is an opportunity to invest into a new family for your herd, so on the by Des Prairies Potter, that has recently scored VG 89 in her second evening of Monday 12th May 2014 enjoy your dinner, have a few drinks lactation! She now resides in Northern Ireland, in the capable hands of and then bid for your favourite lot! Telephone bids are welcome prior the McLean and Cromie families, and has just produced a huge yield of to the event. Contact Duncan 07554060005.

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by Alan Timbrell, Heritage Report Breed Heritage Chairman

I sit here writing this report just minutes after a very frank and constructive Another point I would like to raise with our members is that, as Chairman council meeting, with many things being discussed both in the meeting of Breed Heritage, it would be very beneficial to be able to access your and in the bar. During the last ten months, since I was appointed as individual milk recordings to evaluate cows in your herd that in the past Breed Heritage chairman, it has become apparent to me and others that may have been over looked, or you as breeders have not recognised the our breeders do not fully understand the restrictions we have when trying potential of these animals to the breed. to find bulls of adequate quality, with the required health status, for breed heritage to recommend to Cattle Services. All this involves is for you to give me access to your login details to your milk recording supplier, and then leave the rest to me. I see this as a step It is with this in mind, that we would ask our members to be more forward for us to fully understand your breeding polices and your goals. proactive in the way that we achieve our aims and goals in breeding the Please contact me if this is possible! next generation of bulls for our breeding program. At this time, I would like to put into practice an eight point plan to help our breeders with what In the past the Breed Heritage Committee has received comments that is needed of them to achieve success in putting young bulls on to centre. maybe we don’t listen to, or have not taken on board comments from the breeders. I can assure you that my aim is to work along with Cattle 1. To contact a member of the Breed Heritage committee or Society Services at this exciting time in the dairy industry to make a difference for staff to inform them of a cow or cows in your herd that may be of our members and our future members. Let’s all get together and bring standard for a potential bull mother. (Ideally before she calves if the Ayrshire breed to a place which we can all be proud. pregnant so that we can evaluate the mating). I, for one, am looking forward to visiting Cornwall for this year’s 2. If the cow is of sufficient standard, the calf needs to receive sufficient Conference to see what I am sure will be some outstanding herds, and colostrum in the first six hours of birth. (Ideally a minimum of three talking to many of our Ayrshire breeders. I shall also be visiting herds in litres of high quality colostum). Northern Ireland during my visit there to speak at the Ulster Club AGM.

3. If your herd is prone to IBR, we would ask you to feed replacement Please don’t hesitate if there is anything you wish to discuss with me colostrum to your new born calf in the first six hours, and also isolate or any member of the committee. We need information from you, as the calf to either a calf hutch or a building away from the milking information and knowledge is the key. herd. I suggest that if you need to use replacement colostrum, you should contact Graham Shepherd Animal Health on 01772 690131 Alan Timbrell and use First Thirst IBR Elite colostrum powder. [email protected] 07889044070 4. House these potential bulls in well ventilated areas away from other calves, and the dairy herd to stop any cross contamination of diseases which they may pick up.

5. Register these calves within days of being born so we can obtain a DNA sample to authenticate the parentage of the calf as soon as possible!

6. At three months of age, and if all criteria have been successful, any chosen bull will be taken on to the collection centre, but only if all the criteria has been reached.

7. The bull will be housed on centre until nine to ten months of age when semen will be taken to check if it is fertile and freezes.

8. The aim will be to sell the first batches of semen one month, on average, after the semen is collected. 15 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 16 17 The Ayrshire Journal Peter Judges Finland’s Ayrshire

Left - Showmanship champion - Sanna Winter Show Savikko and Peter Drummond (right) by Peter Drummond When I was asked back in September to judge the handling classes at year old class she was the one to beat. She had dairyness, power, super Ayrshire Finland’s Winter Show I was very quick to accept. After a two locomotion and easily the best udder in the show. hour delay to my Manchester flight on the Wednesday night, and a stay in the nearby hotel, I set off for Finland on the Thursday morning. When Friday night was the breeders party held at the arena. After dinner I landed I was told a girl called Linda would meet me in the airport to there was an unexpected question and answer session with the judges, get me to the train station, along with the three Swedish girls who were thankfully it didn’t last too long and it was quickly followed by a Finnish doing the Nordic showmanship. Linda found me eventually and all the rock band. With my judging on the Saturday, I had another early night to transport plans that had been organised for me got me to Seinajoki, keep a clear head for the job in hand the following morning. where the show was taking place at around 21.30 local time. That night, myself and those taking part in the Nordic showmanship and David Mayo Saturday morning was the junior handling with four classes and 23 from Australia, were treated to an excellent dinner in the hotel before we competitors in total. The standard of the handling was very good, with all took an early night before the show starting the following day. the top placings in each class being on par with the best in the UK. My Champion Handler was Iiris Nissila, with Suvi Keinanen in Reserve, and The Friday was my spectating day, with David overseeing the judging Lilli Laiholahti Honourable Mention. Having taken a bit of advice from of the stock. All the classes were an excellent standard. The calves David the night before over a beer and a bit of cricket chat, I soon got at the top of the junior classes all demonstrated dairyness, clean bone used to giving reasons with a translator. The key to it is, just keep them and excellent open frames. Sires dominating the top placings in the short! classes were Burdette, Dreamer and a Finnish Poker son called Erwin. The Junior Champion came from the final class, the junior two year old After the junior handlers was the Sale of Stars with 10 lots sold averaging heifers, with Laura and Jouko Laiholahti’s Joukolan Jamacia (Oblique x around 2,000 Euros. With the sale over, I was back to the ring to judge Pardner). This heifer was an easy winner in the championship with its the finale of the show, the Senior Showmanship. This is a class open to stature and power. The Reserve Junior Champion was again from Laura anyone over 18. There were 17 entries and to build the atmosphere I was told to drop the worst out one at a time until I was down to the final and Jouko Laiholahti, this time with Joukolan Julietta (Erwin x Calimero). five. The five then had to be placed in reverse order, down to the last Following the junior championship was the Nordic showmanship. This two. With this, the lights went out in the arena apart from those over the competition comprised of three handlers from Finland, three from show ring, the music built to a climax and the smoke machines came on, Sweden and two from Denmark. Each was allotted a calf, which had that was my queue to tap out my showmanship winner, Sanna Savikko. been shown that morning, to compete in a showmanship class, with the You would certainly say it was a different way to judge, some might say winning nation hosting the competition the following year. This year’s harsh, but for me it was quite an enjoyable class that drew in the crowd winner was Marie Arvidsson from Sweden – being allocated the junior as it came to the end. As for the competitors - everyone has to learn to champion from the mornings show was certainly a slice of luck that is lose sometime; it’s only a bit of fun! needed when you get no time to prepare for the class.

On Sunday, David and I visited three farms on our way back to the After lunch it was the in milk classes. The two year old class was lead airport. It was obvious on all of the farms that the production was high off by two extremely well balanced Burdette daughters. These were and that the main aim at present is to improve type. You also learn very the first Burdette daughters in milk I had seen shown and few could be quickly about the Finnish people’s passion for their cows and I believe disappointed with the quality of the two at the top of this class. Both there would be a good market for UK genetics in Finland. From just the were Burdettes out of Poker dams, a cross that clearly seems to be three visits we saw a number of animals that could also have been at working. The first placed two year old, owned again by Laura and Jouko the show, to bolster the already impressive 90-100 animals that were Laiholahti, went on to be Honourable Mention in the championship. present. Sires that stood out were Palmyra Bet On Me and Palmyra Poker Riggins. The Grand Champion and Reserve came from the four and five year old classes respectively. In Reserve was Korkiakosken Remi Elegance, To finish, I would just like to thank the Finnish Ayrshire Breeders for my a cow with tremendous length, dairyness and clean bone (Remington invitation to judge. Everyone was extremely helpful especially Minna x Pardner) owned by Anu and Jari Ahlholm. As good as the Reserve Kotila who deserves a special thanks for organising all my transport. For and Honourable Mention were the Grand Champion really did stand out anyone in Finland reading this article, you are more than welcome in the quite easily as the cow of the show. The Grand Champion cow was AT UK anytime and anyone who gets the chance to visit Finland should take Havisamanda, owned by Tia and Jyri Tanner and was sired by Palmyra the opportunity to do so, summer might be better – it would be at least Jerry Bendig, out of a Poker dam. As soon as she walked into the four 30°C warmer than winter! The Ayrshire Journal 18 19 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 20 21 The Ayrshire Journal Ayrshire Diary...... From Annabell Armstrong, Plaskettlands

Diary number two, and I am sitting four days before the deadline day with a blank page!

We have just finished a four night run in the village pantomime and this year’s production was Aladdin. Fifty performers sang, danced and acted to sell out audiences each night. This year we hope to clear £2500 which will be divided between four charities locally and nationally. The group has been on the go for over 25 years and we rehearse twice a week from mid October. It fills the winter nights in, but we still leave it until the week before to learn our lines! Good fun for performers, and the audience who keep coming year after year to support us. It’s one of those things that Rodney and you’re pleased to start, pleased to finish, but at the same time you can’t Annabell wait until October for the next one comes around. The club’s plans for next year’s Conference are coming along nicely. At the end of my last diary I wrote about our entries for the National Sale Number one priority at the moment is of course the fundraising. Plenty of going in. We went and supported the sale and sold one of our bulls, the ideas floating about so it looks like it’s going to be a busy year. At the last other, Plaskett Olympian came home with us. We have had one or two meeting most of them seemed to be how we could remove something enquiries since then, but he is still here and we are using him ourselves. from Willie and make money from it. Too numerous to mention, and It isn’t often you get a bull available from a 95 point cow, and talking of some of them definitely not for the journal! I have been sitting down this bulls.....we had a few enquiries about our stock bull Haresfoot Elmo after morning putting the finishing touches to our club sponsorship letter. It’s buying him from Duncan. Some fellow breeders asked us if we were not easy when all you want to say is please can you support us. A little planning to take semen off him. After a couple of attempts to collect background into the conference and which herds we hope to visit will semen, and getting two good samples both times, we were told that its help I’m sure. unsuitable as it won’t thaw after freezing. This is a blow for us, as the last bull we had on farm that this happened to was Round Bush Edward At the time of writing Rodney and Michael are spending any dry days who was bred by the Jamiesons. Edward has left us a legacy that will in the fields trying to get standing water away. We have a lot of wet be here for years to come, with our 15 EX cows that we had in the ground at the moment and we are on sandy land. We like to plant the herd. Can lightning really strike twice? The heifers off Elmo are looking new potatoes in the second week of March, in time to sell them at the promising too. Plaskett Janie 131 was our show heifer for last year and beginning of June. The field is yet to have its muck on and to be ploughed, another one of his daughters will have been shown at this year’s Dairy and so it’s looking like we may be a bit behind schedule this year. We Expo at Carlisle. have been investing in some more up to date potato equipment for this season, an automatic planter and two row potato harvester have arrived One of the first jobs of the New Year is always to send off the booking from Lincolnshire, so that may be me out of a job in the potato field, but form for the conference, but this time, two booking forms were posted I very much doubt it somehow. We are down to one market a week at in the envelope. Amy our youngest daughter has said she would like to the moment and what we have in storage should keep us going until go to the Young Breeders Gathering in Loughborough, and I’m chuffed the end of March. By the time we get back to the markets with our new because I have been trying to persuade her since the Young Breeders potatoes, the customers have had a couple of months of supermarket were here a few years ago. So I am getting two Ayrshire gatherings this potatoes and are glad to see us back. We have had some windy and year and not just the one. She has rather sensibly said she wants to learn wet days at the market since Christmas, and our customers say we are about the showmanship and the breeding side of things and that it has crackers, but we don’t like to let them down. Many of you will have seen nothing to do at all with the socialising! We shall see in April. the photo in the papers of a farm on the Cumbria coast getting swamped by the tide crashing over it. That farm is five minutes away from here and Today is one of those days when you seem to do a lot, but get nothing the farmer says the biggest inconvenience is when the tide comes down done! I’m currently our Ayrshire club secretary and it’s our club’s AGM the chimney and puts the fire out! tonight. I have done the agendas and those have already been sent out to the members, but more have been done to take just in case anyone Well that’s it for another journal, two down one to go! The last one forgets them. Letters have been written and sent to our competition arrived in time for us all to sit down around the Christmas tree and see judges for the year, so here’s hoping for some speedy replies. The what was happening in the Ayrshire world. bookings have been made for our dinner dance in November. All I have left to do now is this diary entry, our herd advert and the club report for Let’s hope the weather settles down and lets us get back to what were the journal. The house is still a tip, but hey ho there is always tomorrow! good at. The Ayrshire Journal 22 23 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 24 25 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 26 27 The Ayrshire Journal bulls being bred and proven in the UK; and (b) any profit Cattle Services Edward’s C.S.A.News makes is used for the benefit of the breed in a variety of ways – giving financial support to the Society; advertising and promoting the breed; by Edward Evans, sponsorship; a presence at shows; returning commission payments to Marketing and Promotions Manager breeders; sourcing young bulls; etc, etc. Our end of year financial report for 2013 shows that we have paid all our bills, met our commitments, I have to admit that as per usual, copy date for my contribution to the and have a small cash surplus to carry over to 2014. journal arrived before I had found time to give it much thought! However, the superb quality of each of our breed’s exhibits at the Northern Dairy Different sires have different strengths, and different breeders have Expo last weekend, the 7th/8th March, really concentrated my mind, different priorities. This was the thinking behind our “one price fits all” in particular the successes enjoyed by progeny of Cattle Services sires semen offer, which has proved to be very popular. I am currently at winning four of the five Ayrshire classes. The first successes came on home compiling these notes on the evening of 10th March, and during Friday afternoon, when a very correct “Napier” daughter was placed the last hour I have taken two phone calls with orders for 120 straws first in the i/c heifer class, and a superbly stylish “Simply Perfek” calf from members keen to take advantage of the offer before it runs out on won the maiden heifer class, going on to be junior breed champion. She the 28th. We have a Directors meeting scheduled for the 18th when is one of many quality daughters of this sire I have seen on farms around the effects of this offer will be analysed, and used to influence our future the country, and I have recently secured an order for his semen from marketing strategy. Australia. We are currently collecting semen from a “Burdette” son, out of a strong UK family line. If all goes to plan, we hope to have this semen available by mid summer. Details will be published once we have qualified semen. Much time and effort is also being expended on analysing pedigrees and inspecting young bulls with a view to having a test team to present to you all in the autumn. The ongoing TB situation continues to complicate this work – we are very hopeful that the team will contain a spread of bloodlines and include cow families new to our testing programme. Orders for last autumn’s list are still coming in, these are welcome and appreciated, but for a testing scheme to meet its objectives, this semen needs to be used as soon as possible following its release – semen in the tank tells us nothing.

Plans are currently laid for a presence at the same shows as last year. Having a stand at a show is expensive, but gives a great opportunity to meet with members and customers alike, to be able to offer hospitality, Sandyford Diamond 45 VG 86 do business, and hopefully attract new faces. Please find us at one of these events, and if possible introduce or direct new contacts towards us. Our sincere thanks for your past business as we look forward to this continuing in the future.

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The milk classes on Saturday continued in the same up beat vein when a “Mandella” daughter “Cuthill Towers Radar Ray 13” took top honours in the three year old class – a previous show winner, she oozes quality from nose to tail, one of many “Mandella” daughters turning in top performances both here in the UK and abroad. The line up in the Schedule and Entry Forms are available on the senior cow milk class was most impressive - cows with capacity, bone Livestock Event website. If you require a paper copy quality and super udders. Taking top spot was the “Easlad” daughter please contact Sian Mercer at the RABDF. “Sandyford Diamond 45”, going on to breed champion - she typifies www.livestockevent.co.uk so many of the positives her sire transmits. We offer our congratulations to exhibitor Blaize Tomlinson and family – securing the breed and junior Tel: 0845 458 2711 breed champion with daughters of different sires is some achievement Email: [email protected] – well done! Apart from the class winners, there were other real quality Entries close 6th June daughters by different Cattle Services sires, each competing for top honours in their respective class. Our sincere thanks to the breeders for bringing them out and in many ways re-enforcing the point I have continually tried to get across – if you are breeding Ayrshires, pure or blended, it has to make sense when needing semen to make Cattle Services your first point of call – for this is a win, win situation: (a) we offer a comprehensive choice of quality genetics – the majority of our The Ayrshire Journal 28 29 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 30 31 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 32 33 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 34 35 The Ayrshire Journal Raising Herd Profitability Through Better Breeding by Marco Winters, Head Of Genetics

DairyCo Breeding+ carries out genetic evaluations for all breeds and all compared to the breed average and generally fall within the range of -0.5 traits (excl. B&W type), using data recorded through Milk Recording and to +0.5 (i.e. a full lactation difference in survival of daughter of bad vs. type data collected by the breed societies. All the available information good bulls). is analysed to produce official UK proofs which predict how much of the recorded differences between individuals come from genetics rather SCC (Somatic Cell Count) than feeding, management and other environmental influences. These Predicts the somatic cell count of daughters during a lactation and are indexes get recalculated every three months (Apr, Aug, Dec). expressed as a percentage, generally falling within the range +30 to -30. For every 1% in a bull’s SCC PTA, a change of 1% in his daughters’ SCC Genetic indexes are available for production, for health, for lifespan, is predicted. It is important to note that a negative %PTA SCC indicates for conformation or for any trait that is inherited and can be measured. a reduction and is therefore good. Although we are most familiar with genetic indexes for milk, fat and protein, it’s a common misconception that indexes relate only to F.I. (female Fertility Index) production. Genetic indexes are far more than this and their application Predicts how fertile a daughter will be and generally fall within the range for non-production traits is becoming increasingly important. of -15 to +15. On average, for every point increase in a bull’s FI, an improvement in his daughters’ calving interval of just under half a day is This short glossary gives a brief description of the most commonly used predicted as well as just under half a percent improvement in non-return terms and can be used as a quick reference guide, for information found rate at 56 days. in AI bull catalogues or on pedigree certificates. PTA (Predicted Transmitting Ability) Linear Type traits A PTA indicates the amount of a particular trait an animal is, on average, Predicts the sort of conformation a bull will transmit to his daughters. predicted to pass on to its offspring compared to the breed average A bull’s type proof is expressed on a scale of -3 to +3, but it is most which is set at zero. For example, a milk kg PTA can be of value +1000 important to be aware that, because linear assessment measures the kg. This indicates this animal, on average, is expected to pass on degree and not the desirability of each trait, the highest score is not an extra 1000 kgs to its progeny. NOTE: As each breed has its own necessarily the most desirable. reference base, across breed comparison of bull indexes is not possible without a conversion. Composite type traits The two composite traits of ‘legs and feet’ and ‘mammary’ also appear Reliability on a bull’s bar chart but unlike the 17 linear traits above, these are Reliability figures give an indication of how confident you can be in a described in terms of desirability rather than degree. Based on the type bull’s indexes (Low reliability <55%; high reliability >90%). evaluator’s observations, they are also expressed on a -3 to +3 scale, with the highest scores indicating the best overall quality in these three Production PTA areas. Milk, Fat, and Protein kgs; Fat%, Protein%: Predicts the additional yield a daughter is expected to produce in a standard 305-day lactation. Type merit Type merit is a prediction of a bull’s ability to transmit overall type and is LS (Lifespan) based on a combination of his daughters’ scores for mammary, legs and Predicts the number of lactations a bull’s daughters are expected to live, feet and body conformation, in order of importance.

The Ayrshire Journal 36 £PLI (Profitable Lifetime Index) For further information please visit the DairyCo website and go Represents the financial improvement an animal is predicted to pass on to the Breeding & Genetics pages where further material can be to its daughters in its lifetime. Although genetic indexes for the many found, such as: individual traits now measured can reveal a great deal about an animal’s 1. Breeding Briefs - A quick guide to genetic indexes in dairy breeding expectations, their detailed study can be time-consuming and cattle is often impractical on many farms. This is where the £PLI index comes or into play. This financial index brings together a variety of economically 2. Breeding+ improvement pack which contains more important traits into one figure which detailed information. can be used as a simple screening tool to identify the bulls that on average breed the most profitable daughters.

Breed Codes As part of registering an animal, they are assigned a breed code which precedes the animal’s herdbook number. The breed codes indicate the breed and origin of the animal. For the UK only three breed codes are assigned; 03 (Ayrshire), 14 (Red & White Ayrshire) and 22 (UK born Scandinavian red). The full list of breed codes used in the Ayrshire breed is; B/C Breed name 03 Ayrshire (UK) 14 Red & White Ayrshire (UK) 17 Danish Red 22 Scandinavian Red (UK) 49 Angler 53 Rotbunte 59 Swedish Red 70 N.American Ayrshire (USA or CAN) 73 Finnish Ayrshire 77 Norwegian Red 78 NZ/ AUS Ayrshire

Summary Breeding improves your herd’s profitability through better genetics. In order to maximise the opportunity for improvement -

1. Set YOUR own realistic breeding goals. 2. Understand YOUR herd’s strengths and weaknesses. 3. Understand how to use all the tools available to YOU (incl. £PLI). 4. There is a bull to suit every system, make sure YOU breed the right cow for YOUR system!

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Syke Tag Sale recently classified VG 87 2YR, this exciting young prospect was much admired for her bone quality and locomotion (VG 89) and fantastic Britain’s first ever Tag Sale of Pedigree livestock was held recently at mammary system (VG 87), traits we have come to expect from her world Catrine House, Ayrshire, home of the show winning Syke Ayrshires, renowned sire. Holsteins and Jerseys owned by Willy and Jo Templeton.

Top priced Ayrshire for the evening at £2,500 was the much admired She sold to Senor Savadore Esqueirdo who is establishing his own herd heifer Syke Glencairn Lolita VG 87 2YR, sired by the UK’s number one of Ayrshires in Ayrshire with quality purchases from throughout the UK. Ayrshire bull ARDMORE CROWN NAPIER EX 95, with her maternal He will be looking to build on her previous show wins at junior level and grand sire being WAXHAM EXECUTIVE. Only six weeks calved, and she certainly is an exciting prospect for the forthcoming show season.

Free Classifications High PLI Calves The list of Young Bulls has been updated as from 1st April 2014 as follows and will be updated again on 1st October Registered to 1st March 2014 2014. Auchensale Lord Potter Pure Calves Bigginvale Destination Name PLI Sire Name Carnell Assett Maker Inch Olivia 148 Asmo Tosikko Carnell Tristan Inch Gunnarstorp Joan 131 Gunnarstorp Castern Thunder Changue Celandine 273 126 Hilltown Oblique Cuthill Towers Rambo Sandersfarms Seashore Blackberry 125 Gunnarstorp Cuthill Towers Romeo Gadles Fanny 120 Haresfoot Panache Haresfoot Elegant Swaites Jig 120 Haresfoot Panache Haresfoot Panache Hadlow Ob Rene 108 Jelyca Oblique Highway Tourist Powgree Napier Rosemary 104 Ardmore Crown Napier Knowe Dons Valley Rosehill Rolupdcarpet 103 Kamouraska Rockstar Maple Dell Modem Diego Marlbrook Tosikko Rosebud 101 Asmo Tosikko Rosehill Rhythmajig Blended Calves Stamford Ambassador Sandersfarms Sophie Blackberry 203 Gunnarstorp Wroughton Lord Winston Sandersfarms Silkshine Ruby 183 Gunnarstorp Sandersfarms Summer Olive 148 Gunnarstorp Ryemuir Panache Flo 139 Haresfoot Panache Swaites lorna 17 138 Haresfoot Panache Beeline Panache Cornetto 134 Haresfoot Panache Sandyford Panache Anna 133 Haresfoot Panache Buckland Lizzie 5 130 Kilpisalon Toivo Sandersfarms Starburst Jewel 129 Gunnarstorp Cuthill Towers Oblique Bon Bon 126 Jelyca Oblique Red & White Calves Keep up to date Sandersfarms Scintilla Ruby 198 Vr Cigar Sandersfarms Stellate Ruby 198 Regancrest Oman Ingles Swaites Sandy Rose 2 191 Scientific Destry on all the Society’s Humeston Lady Maud 87 188 Denmire Moover Sandersfarms Songbird Ruby 187 Sandisfarne Galactic Sandersfarms Spangle Faith 184 Regancrest Oman Ingles news as it Sandersfarms Starshine Jewel 182 Regancrest Oman Ingles Galaxy Destry Lottie 181 Scientific Destry Brocklehill Tiger Ena 181 Tiger-Lily Ladd P-Red West Mossgiel Mayflower 226 178 Willsbro Rudolf Red happens! 41 The Ayrshire Journal The Future Looks Robert Adams

by Sarah Liddle, Promising The Farm Organisation

Robert Adams is very pragmatic about the Ayrshire cow. With over 60 tenth of that acreage 60 years ago, with all land work except combining years of history in the breed, it has been the mainstay of his farming life, done ‘in house’. Elder daughter Joanna and sons Richard and Andrew and has enabled him to build the family business into what it is today. alongside Robert and Jennifer make up the daily farm team, while Robert admits to having never known anything other than farming, younger daughter Nicola is a local veterinary nurse, but is still involved with his father Ben and mother May milking Shorthorns and Ayrshires with the sheep enterprise of 100 early lambing Dorsets at the home farm. initially in Biggin-by-Hulland in Derbyshire, the Bigginvale herd was first While Ayrshires have been attributed with bringing profitability to this registered back in the 1950s. At four and a half years old, he moved with farming business due to their ability to graze pasture and be a low his parents, and sisters Mabel and Margaret with 30 cows to what was maintenance dairy cow, the two businesses, 12 miles apart are very then the 96 acre Shirley Old Park Farm, on the edge of Rodsley near diverse, to maximise the topography and land which is farmed. Belted Ashbourne. Galloways are also an integral feature of the hill farm, as are 360 in lamb ewes, both of which have their own niche. The Belted Galloways arrival is down to daughter Nicola, who at a sale said to her father ‘would you do something for me’- well how could I refuse goes on to say Robert; ‘I never imagined she’d ask me to buy that stripy calf, seen in Castle Douglas market the night before’. The rest they say is history (and daughters having their dads wrapped around their little fingers!). This year, 32 of the Belted Galloways will be calved, descending from two families. A Belted Galloway has also been used on some Ayrshire heifers. All the farm’s bull calves are finished, with some of the pure Belted Galloway meat sold direct by Joanna as boxed eighths of a carcass, through word of mouth. Ben with Robert With quite a bit of National Trust land rented - this hardy traditional breed is ideal to graze some of the sparse and hilly terrain of the Derbyshire The cementing of Ayrshires as the breed for the Adams family to work Peak District. with came just a few years later, when the scourge of TB reared its ugly head. Ben Adams was grading up his cows to Ayrshire pedigree status, but TB struck with 18 animals on the farm going down. Mabel, Robert’s elder sister said she liked the Ayrshire cow and that was how the farm was restocked, with the herd being 100% Ayrshire ever since the 1960s. TT Attested cattle were bought from the Sheriffhales and Ellerton herds as well as some locally from Tissington. The young stock were also saved at this time, with cow families such as the Butterflys and Cherrys in the herd today developed from Shorthorn crosses. TB has unfortunately affected the herd again since with nearly 50 head lost around six years ago, while the herd has currently just gone clear.

Belted Galloway x Ayrshire heifers

The sheep also fit well alongside this mix, again traditional breeds have proven to be the most successful, Swaledales were first introduced with the Derbyshire Gritstone now the favoured breed. It will soon be time for Joanna to move up to the hills to the mobile home alongside them to see through lambing and calving. The sheep and beef cattle are a separate business, which began when Robert sold his house to buy the first 46 acres of hill land back in the 1970s. This now extends to 300 acres, a combination of owned and rented land, which was entered into an The Adams family with daughter of B. Browngirl EX 91 organic scheme at the same time as the home farm at Rodsley.

Fast forward to the here and now, and the family is still very much When it comes down to breeding Robert has always been very much involved with the Ayrshire cow and farming. Robert and Jennifer are a purist, wanting a profitable Ayrshire. He is keen to say that cow partners in the operation, which has grown with addition of both tenanted families are imperative, believing that the female carries more weight in and purchased land to encompass nearly 1000 acres, with their four the mating, with a strong female line capable of carrying mistakes. The children all involved with the farm. Ironically now mentions Robert, the Ayrshire is also an ideal grazing cow which suits the system at Rodsley. same number of people are farming 1000 acres as were farming about a The 120 cows graze from the end of April through to late October The Ayrshire Journal 42 generally, and milked twice a day, with no buffer feeding in summer. On an organic system they are averaging 6500-7000 litres at 3.8% fat and 3.4% protein, with a bactoscan of 12 and a SCC of 59. With milk sold to OSMCO, there is no milk quality payment. The herd has been organic since 1999, at which time there was a grant to facilitate conversion, although this did not require huge changes in farming practise, except perhaps the children becoming a tribe of dock pickers during the school holidays- “happy memories” chips in Joanna across the kitchen table! The success of the organic system Robert feels is because he undertook the conversion gradually over a few years. 15 years on and the organic milk price is 40ppl, with Robert saying there needs to be a 6ppl differential with feed costs £100/tonne more than conventional. However organic and grazing suits the farm with maintenance plus 20 litres a cow derived from forage during the summer the aim, and great care taken to compost a quality manure on farm as fertiliser. Red clover Killoch Powerdrill left great conformation leys are also an important characteristic of the organic system as they in the Bigginvale herd enable good silage crops, and work well in the arable rotation. Cereal yields tend to run at 1.5-2 t/acre with whole crop made if weeds are an and legs and conformation, and Killoch Propeller who put milk into issue, otherwise barley is crimped in the field and stored in an old silage the next generation. Robert says you could be working in a field, look clamp ready to be fed back to the cows. across the valley and admire a heifer - and it turned out to be a Powerdrill daughter time and time again. Powerdrill also sired the dam of the herd’s Robert and Jennifer took over the operation from Robert’s father in the best homebred bull so far, Bigginvale Marvellous by Monteith Star late 1980s and at that time he briefly considered a move to Holstein Jewel who was used at Bigginvale as well as in David Gibson’s herd and breeding. However the reasons for staying with the Ayrshire were multiple in Robert’s eldest son Christopher’s herd (who farms locally and has - a higher milk protein, the steady trade for surplus stock sales, a grazing the Tessvale herd of Ayrshires) to great effect. Robert’s eldest daughter cow which has few feet problems, great udders and a straighter leg, Victoria lives in Wales and is married to a beef and sheep farmer. When were all attributes of the Ayrshire Robert was familiar with and wanted it comes to breeding, Robert says that it is a case of him trying to match to harness as a means to profitability. Ultimately the cow suits the farm and fix in the next generation. East Church Ambition latterly has had Robert says, so why fix something that’s not broken. the most effect in the herd. Walking the herd, there is a mass of mature cows showing breed attributes - great mobility, tight well attached quality Over the years Robert has had the opportunity to see the wider industry, udders and durability and none of these exemplify that more than the and draw from his experiences there to grow his farming operation. During nine year old Ambition daughter, Bigginvale Black Cherry 7 EX 91, his twenties to earn extra income, he did some agricultural proficiency who will hopefully breed a Pardner son to take over the mantle. AI and testing. This then led to instructing for Broomfield College. As time went stock bulls have always been used, with Robert a staunch supporter of on, he developed a grocery round- which grew into supplying vegetables the young sire programme run by Cattle Services (Ayr) Ltd. He always as well as locally sourced eggs and he supplied three large local hotels, samples all the bulls as he feels it’s imperative to keeping the gene pool one of which taught him a valuable lesson. It was a steep learning curve as open as possible. Bigginvale Destination, another Ambition son is when he was undercut by another supplier and shown no loyalty - also on test with Cattle Services (Ayr) Ltd. making Robert realise that all the time you must watch your business. In addition to this experience, Young Farmers is another avenue that all the Robert and Jennifer have over the years travelled extensively and made Adams’ feel have helped them develop. One of Robert’s highlights was many friends on the back of the Ayrshire cow. Robert has judged many winning the dairy judging at the London Dairy Show while representing shows, including the Royal Show and the Royal Welsh, and herds Derbyshire three years running, and gaining three silver medals. His local competitions, and they have now attended many World Conferences. club is Ashbourne and all the family have held offices within that club, Robert says he is appreciative to the late Jim Rennie who took him where Jennifer is now President. under his wing as a young Ayrshire enthusiast and he is grateful for the enormous support Edward and Margaret Evans have given the Although the Bigginvale herd has always registered, it wasn’t until Robert breed over the years. Herds competitions have been supported for went into the partnership with his father that breeding took on a tailored many years by Bigginvale, with the most recent success being 2012 approach. Up until then it had principally been Bull of the Day from the Derbyshire Ayrshire Club herd winners, while showing is also done MMB. However Robert remembers fondly travelling to Scotland for Ayr albeit predominantly locally, although Bigginvale Browngirl EX 91 was week - to attend the National Ayr Bull Sale, where there would be several Supreme Champion at the 1998 Dairy Event. hundred heifers, and around 30 bulls to sell. This was enhanced by on farm visits to see stock, descendants and family members and resulted The future for their family looks promising. Robert and Jennifer are in Robert purchasing his first stock bull in the late 1970s, Knowe Brown lucky to have the next generation engaged in agriculture and the farm Nave from the Templeton family. continues to develop and evolve with more land recently added and plans for a new parlour in place. Robert has made many friends due to Since then, a number of bulls have been bought to augment the herd; his passion and enthusiasm for the Ayrshire breed, and going forward most successful of which were Killoch Powerdrill, who although not as your breed President, he is honoured to be at the helm and delighted the biggest milk bull has bred tremendous wearing cattle with great feet with the opportunity this affords. 43 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 44 45 The Ayrshire Journal Ayrshire Show Results Royal Ulster Winter Fair 2013 Cow in-Calf 1-Erne Calimero Joy VG 88 (Margot Calimero) - S Baxter 2-Ardmore Orphan 95 EX 92 (Morwick Sand Ranger Red) - J Hunter 3-Grove Rosie 4 EX 93 (Brieryside Jubilant Scot) - T Gordon Heifer in-Milk 1-Ardmore Miranda 2 (Mapleburn Remington) - J Hunter 2-Denamona Gold Jill 2 (Ravenhill Olympic Gold) - A Irwin 3-Ardmore Cowslip 94 (Carnell Dream Master) - J Hunter Junior Cow in-Milk 1-Marleycote Sea Lily 14 VG 89 (D. P. Potter) - M/s Cromie & McLean 2-Atley Hill Yellow Pamela VG 87 (Y. B.Journalist) - M/s Cromie & McLean 3-Denamona Dance Lassie (Humeston River Dance) - A Irwin Senior Cow in-Milk 1-Haresfoot Bazooka Ella EX 92 (Haresfoot Bazooka) - J Hunter 2-Fortfield Kate 47 VG 85 (Brieryside New Proof) - R Stewart 3-Denamona Reddish Flora (Humeston Reddish) - A Irwin

Haresfoot Bazooka Ella EX 92 Dairy Expo 2014

The third UK Dairy Expo, held in perfect conditions, saw this event stake a strong claim to the title of the best exhibition of dairy cattle in the UK. Record entries of bovine beauties coupled with two outstanding overseas judges, who were looking for quality and utility instead of size just for the sake of it, added to the feel good factor of the show.

Officiating in both the Ayrshire and the Red and White sections was noted Canadian judge, Callum McKinven, whose family have their roots in North Ayrshire, and he was in top form, dispatching class after class with effortless ease.

The Ayrshire classes were a triumph for the Tomlinson family and their Sandyford herd who had a fantastic show, winning the Junior Marleycote Sea Lily 14 VG 89 Championship on the Friday evening with a lovely daughter of Haresfoot Simply Perfek, Sandyford Perfek Bunty. Blaise and Deborah’s daughter, Evie, took victory in the first class of the mature show by winning the Judge - C Hormann, Germany heifer in milk with a lovely Palmyra Tri-Star Reality daughter shown with Breed Champion - Haresfoot Bazooka Ella EX 92 - J Hunter Evie’s own prefix Allstar Real Joybell. Res. Champion Marleycote Sea Lily 14 VG 89 - M/s Cromie & McLean Heifer Champion - Ardmore Miranda 2 - J Hunter Res. Heifer Champion - Denamona Gold Jill 2 - A Irwin An outstanding class of junior cows saw the outstanding Cuthill Towers Junior Champion - Priestland Potters Pamela - M/s Cromie & McLean Radar Ray 13 from the Lawrie family take the top spot. This lovely Res. Jun. Champion - Brookvale Burdette Flora - M/s Lilburn & O’Neill daughter of Hunnington Mandella was shown nine months calved, and it seemed just a matter of time until she occupied the top spot. Maiden Heifer 1-Priestland Potters Pamela (Des Prairies Potter) - M/s Cromie & McLean Taking first place in the senior cows and winning Ayrshire Grand 2-Brookvale Burdette Flora (P. Tri-Star Burdette) - M/s Lilburn & O’Neill Champion were the again the Tomlinson family with the tremendous 3-Trewmount Lark 10 (Nexus Dreamer) - A Emerson & Son Sandyford Diamond 45. This recently calved Hunnington BBK Easlad

The Ayrshire Journal 46 Sandyford Diamond 45 EX 92 Allstar Real Joybell daughter, shown by Jessica Miller, excelled in her dairyness and strength 3-Holmeswood Ella (McCornick Nelson) - A Rimmer with elegance on parade. Reserve Champion was presented to Allstar Heifer in-calf Real Joybell and Honourable Mention was Cuthill Towers Radar Ray 13. 1-Syke Crown Sybil (Ardmore Crown Napier) - R & W Templeton It was no surprise when the Tomlinsons came out on top winning the 2-Troutbeck Burdette Jess 3 (P. Tri-Star Burdette) - F Mattinson Premier Breeder awards and Premier Exhibitor, with Palmyra Tri-Star 3-Plaskett Lucky Charm 298 (Haresfoot Elmo) - M/s Armstrong Reality being Premier Sire. Two Year Old 1-Allstar Real Joybell (Palmyra Tri-Star Reality) - E Tomlinson At this show all the Red and Whites, whether registered with the Ayrshire 2-Marleycote Brown Nell 20 VG 86 (P. Tri-Star Burdette) - R Baynes or Holstein Society, are grouped together with the highest placed 3-Syke Glencairn Lolita VG 87 (A. Crown Napier) - Glencairn Ayrshires & animal in each class registered with us receiving a best of breed rosette. Glenmuir Ayrshires Champion in this section went to a pure Holstein cow from members Three Year Old Bill Nadin and Yasmin Bradbury, with a member of the Jodie family, with 1-Cuthill Towers Radar Ray 13 VG 89 (H. Mandella) - A & S Lawrie the reserve going to Willie Templeton with the winner of the heifer in milk 2-Atley Hill Yellow Pamela VG 89 (Y. B.Journalist) - M/s Cromie & McLean class, Syke Twilight Maud. 3-Troutbeck Star Obstinate VG 87 (Ayr Phoe Ideostar) - F Mattinson Senior Cow Ayrshire Class Results 1-Sandyford Diamond 45 EX 92 (H. BBK Easlad) - M/s Tomlinson & Son Ayrshire Champion & Best Udder Of The Show - 2-Middle Bam Tripova (Haresfoot Bamboozle) - J Whiteford & Sons Sandyford Diamond 45 EX 92 - M/s Tomlinson & Son 3-Troutbeck Robina EX 93 (W. M Lord Of The Ring) - F Mattinson Res. Champion - Allstar Real Joybell - E Tomlinson Red & White Classes Jun. Champion - Sandyford Perfek Bunty - M/s Tomlinson & Son Heifer in-calf Res. Champion - Morwick Tulip 111 - D Shaun Special Awards - Premier Sire Of The Junior Show - 3-Troutbeck Classic Greta (Poos Stadel Classic) - F Mattinson Ardmore Crown Napier and Haresfoot Simply Perfek Two Year Old Premier Breeder & Exhibitor Award - M/s Tomlinson & Sons 3-Morwick Peggy 96 (Morwick Mentor Red) - D A Howie & Sons Premier Sire Of The Senior Show - Palmyra Tristar Reality Three Year Old 2-Stevenson’s Bunty 114 (Muirston Trump Card) - M W & A Stevenson Maiden Heifer 3-Middle Jean HYB (Middle Hybrid) - J Whiteford & Sons 1-Sandyford Perfek Bunty (H. Simply Perfek) - M/s Tomlinson & Son Senior Cow 2-Morwick Tulip 111 (Lilyhall Beacon Red) - S Dixon 2-Morwick Ruth 149 (Cogent Retinue Red) - D A Howie & Sons

47 The Ayrshire Journal Classifications Club Cow Awards Top Ayrshires Countrywide Top Performers Colfin A & W A McWilliam Colfin Quink 10 Athene LP 100 12

Colfin Quink 10, bred by the McWilliams brothers near Stranraer in Wigtownshire, is the latest addition to the LP 100 Club. Sired by the Meadowlake Jubilant son Athene, she attained that total in 12 lactations and at the age of 14 years. She has bred six daughters, so her influence on the herd is assured. Highest yielding of these is the Bankend Brown Bomber daughter, Quink 20, who has produced over 34,000 kgs in four lactations.

Sandyford E T Tomlinson & Son Sandyford Mayflower 5 SFL Jub S Legend Red EX 95 (4) LP 100 Star 1 9 Another cow who has reached the LP100 status is the very popular Sandyford Mayflower 5 from Blaize and Deborah Tomlinson’s Sandyford herd in Loughborough. Not only does she pump out the milk, but she also has the looks! She is scored Body EX 95, Dairy Strength EX 96, Legs and feet EX 94 and mammary EX 95 giving her a final score of EX 95! Sired by Legend Red and out of Sandyford Mayflower by Garthland Bandmaster, she gave a top yield in her 6th lactation of 13,743 kgs in 305 days. In 2009, she was reserve breed champion to her herd mate Sandyford Clover 10 at the Royal Show and has won countless of other prizes across the country. Having completed her 9th lactation, she has also bred Sandyford Mayflower 6 EX 92 by the stock bull Sandyford Triple EX, the beautiful Sandyford Mayflower 14th, an 84 point Remington two year old, who of course took the Heifer championship at the South West Dairy Show 2013 and the stock bull Sandyford Sweet Chariot EX 93.

Whitecroft J D & B F Broadley Whitecroft Anna 35 Tregonwell Trelawney EX 91 LP 100 13 The Tregonwell Trelawney daughter, Anna 35 in the Whitecroft herd of the Broadley family, has qualified for the100 tonne Club in 13 lactations, her peak lactation being her fourth with a 305 day yield of 9980 kgs. Her sire, Tregonwell Trelawney, was bred from three generations of long living high yielding cows, mostly Pant bred, while Anna’s dam was also high on longevity, having yielded 60,000 kgs. Anna 35 has four daughters, all from her last four calvings. Her only mature daughter is the GP 84 Prodigy daughter, Anna 66, who looks like following in her mother’s footsteps, having 8306 kgs in her second.

Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Acton J H Tomlinson Attwell Amanda 4 Horizon Ranger Red EX 95 (5) LP 80 8 Ashmansworth Peggy 191 Bankend Viaduct EX 94 (6) Star 4 Killoch Punch 700 Horizon Ranger Red EX 93 (4) Star 2 Acton Tri Peggy Ardrossan E V Kate’s Trident EX 91 (4) Star 1 Andrew’s T & M Andrew Andrew’s Anna 57 Woodland View Pardner LP 60 8 Andrew’s Freckle 10 Horizon Ranger Red LP 60 6 Andrew’s Linda 5 Woodland View Pardner LP 60 7 Andrew’s Sally 14 Cuthill Towers Milky Prince LP 60 8 Ardmore W J G Hunter Haresfoot Bazooka Ella Haresfoot Bazooka EX 92 3 Ardmore Cowslip 88 Don-Sher Hector EX 91 4 Ardmore Orphan 79 McCornick Nelson EX 91 (3) Star 1 Ardmore Lady Jane 5 Stamford Triple Threat EX 90 3 Ardmore Tulip 46 Ardmore Cornflake EX 90 4 Rulesmains Emerald 5 Middle Milestone Emerald EX 90 (2) LP 60 7 Ardmore Miranda 2 Mapleburn Remington VG 88 1 Ardmore Tulip 3 Ballyclan First Command VG 88 Star 2 Ardmore Crocus 129 Poos Stadel Classic VG 86 1 Ardmore Janet 100 Poos Stadel Classic VG 86 1 Ardmore Cowslip 94 Carnell Dream Master VG 85 1 Atley Hill D C Alderson Haresfoot Pamela 5 Morwick Sand Ranger Red EX 94 (5) LP 60 Star 2 7 Atley Hill Lagace Pamela Lagace Modem EX 91 3 Auchensale R J Carruth Auchensale R L Mo Auchensale Red Link VG 87 LP 60 7 Bailiffscourt D. M. Of Normanby Bailiffscourt Roxy Blackaddar Isle Milkman LP 60 8 Beechmount R McConnell Barr Topaz 2 Barr Quicksilver EX 91 (2) 6 Knockenjig Heather Bloom 24 Badenheath Schiehallion EX 91 3 Knockenjig Ice Cream 24 Badenheath Schiehallion EX 91 3 Largyvale Marie Girl 3 McCornick Nelson EX 90 (2) 6 Beechmount Kathleen Ravenhill Sure Enough VG 86 1 Beechmount Ovoid 2 Des Prairies Potter VG 85 1 Beechmount Ovoid 3 Ardmore Crown Napier VG 85 1

The Ayrshire Journal 48 Production Awards Star Brood Cow Awards

Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Bellfield The Cowhill Trust Bellfield Brown Lady 107 Mardel Volage LP 60 8 Bellfield Myree 94 Bellfield Happy Spirit LP 60 7 Beltonville D & C Gibson Beltonville Karen 4 Newton Grange Royal Eclipse LP 60 9 Biddesden Biddesden Farm Partnership Biddesden Quince Attwell Amadeus LP 80 10 Biddesden Quince 2 Meikle Laught Triple Crown LP 60 9 Bigginvale R T & J I Adams Bigginvale Violet Shady Walnut Conn EX 92 (2) 5 Bigginvale Black Cherry 7 East Church Ambition EX 91 6 Bigginvale Becky Round Bush Commander EX 90 6 Bigginvale Blackbird Bigginvale Prize Bounty EX 90 4 Bigginvale Blackbird 2 Bigginvale Gizmo VG 87 1 Bigginvale Happy Beulah 10 Bigginvale Destination VG 86 1 Bigginvale Peg 73 Brocklehill Beau Supreme VG 86 1 Blackrock M/s Packer & Rowe Blackrock Flo Hunnington Triple Winner EX 92 LP 60 9 Blackrock Torch 7 Hunnington Admiral LP 60 10 Booth’s A Norbury Booth’s Ideal 34 Booth’s Milton EX 94 (3) 7 Booth’s Madge 5 Booth’s Milton EX 93 (3) 5 Booth’s Peach 18 Hunday Major Red EX 90 LP60 7 Booth’s Princess 9 Booth’s Milton EX 90 (2) 7 Booth’s Crummie 7 Loukat Oz VG 86 1 Booth’s Middle Jessie 2 Loukat Oz VG 85 1 Brackley W & P Kelly Brackley Faith 5 Changue Tryst EX 92 (2) 4 Ravenhill Fragmin (Male) Ayr-Phoe Ideostar VG 88 1 Bradnop M J & D Needham Pylon Wrenny 6 Pylon Romulus EX 90 LP 60 8 Brandlingill J & J A Christopherson Morwick Peggy 57 Killoch Progressor EX 90 LP 60 9 Brieryside G Lawrie & Sons Brieryside Northernstar Dorothy Mosside Northernstar Red VG 87 1 Brieryside Supreme Lord Lily Ann Brieryside Supreme Lord VG 86 1 Brieryside Dictator Bessie Brieryside Dictator VG 85 1 Brieryside President Lilli Ann Brieryside President VG 85 1 Brieryside Supreme Lord Lily Ann 2 Brieryside Supreme Lord VG 85 1 Brieryside Sarah 6 Brieryside Warrior LP 60 8 Broadmeadows L Awde Middle Rosy Red Dudy Middle Brown Girls Rudi EX 91 (3) 6 Burnbank A & G MacDougall Burnbank Snowie 6 Bankend Waterloo LP 60 9 Muirston Mannequin 17 Morwick Sand Ranger Red LP 60 6 Calderglen J & M Barr Calderglen Honeysuckle Morwick Sand Ranger Red EX 93 (2) LP 80 9 Calderglen Gladiola Middle Milestone Emerald EX 90 LP 60 9 Calderglen Aconite Calderglen Senator VG 86 1 Calderglen Brambling Calderglen Tarbert Ranger VG 86 1 Calderglen Bright Scorpio Calderglen Senator VG 86 1 Calderglen Bridget 2 Calderglen Tarbert Ranger VG 85 1 Calderglen Bulrush Sanderson Last Talisman VG 85 1 Caldervale W S Millar & Son Caldervale Betina 54 Morwick Sand Ranger Red EX 94 (2) LP 60 7 Caldervale Cowslip 56 Morwick Sand Ranger Red VG 88 LP 60, PA 7 7 Carnell G & R Templeton Carnell Snowdrop 156 Horizon Ranger Red EX 94 (7) Star 1 10 Carnell Jungle Girl 34 Carnell Bright Crown EX 93 (3) 5 Carnell Snowdrop 185 Carrousel Regiment Red EX 92 (4) Star 3 Carnell Snowdrop 240 Ladino Park Talent EX 91 3 Carnell Snowdrop 199 STBVQ Rubens EX 90 LP 60 7 Carnell Snowdrop 242 Lagace Modem EX 90 3 Carnell Tristan (Male) Changue Tryst VG 89 Carnell Razzle Belle Willsbro Red Razzle VG 86 1 Carnell Snowdrop 119 Brocklehill Happy Spirit VG 86 Star 3 Carnell Snowdrop 288 Hunnington BBK Easlad VG 86 1 Carnell Snowdrop 290 Lennard Red VG 86 1 Carnell Claire 6 Carnell Warrior VG 85 1 Carnell Peg 170 Carnell Bright Crown VG 85 1 Carnell Snowdrop 286 Savard Red VG 85 1 Carnell Tulip 18 Savard Red VG 85 1 Carsenaw C Service & Co Ltd Carsenaw Eunice 29 Cuthill Towers Royal Mail EX 93 (2) 8 Castle View L Jerman Acton Copper Petal McCornick Navigator EX 91 5 Coachgate F S & L Griffiths Park Head Tartan Glove 4 Corringham Rasputin Red EX 93 (3) 5

49 The Ayrshire Journal Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Colfin A & W A McWilliam Colfin Annette Newlands Idaho LP 60 10 Colfin Laura 2 Madel Volage LP 60 7 Colfin Oleria 7 Lagace Ristourn VG 85 1 Colfin Starry 18 Torpane LP 80 11 Cottown J Drummond Cottown Amelia 2 Killoch Plum Choice EX 91 LP 60 7 Cottown Rose 7 Humeston Top Yield EX 90 4 Cottown Ruth 13 Ravenhill Enigma EX 90 3 Craigtown Irwin Bros Craigtown Sarah 13 Ballyclan Milk Machine EX 90 Star 1 Craigtown Irene 77 Cuthill Towers Full Monty VG 88 LP 60 8 Cuthill Towers A & S Lawrie Cuthill Towers Daisy Mae 2 Ladino Park Talent EX 94 (3) 5 Cuthill Towers Mystic Molly 5 Cuthill Towers Prince Freddie EX 92 (2) 5 Cuthill Towers Pammy 5 Cuthill Towers Prince Rupert EX 91 (2) LP 60 6 Cuthill Towers Rebecca Ladino Park Talent EX 91 (2) 5 Cuthill Towers Rubic Lady Cuthill Towers Prince Rupert EX 91 LP 60 8 Cuthill Towers White Patch 11 Lagace Modem EX 91 3 Cuthill Towers Miranda 2 Briar Factor Sabre Red EX 90 Star 1 Cuthill Towers Rambo (Male) Lagace Ristourn EX 90 Cuthill Towers Regal Ray 4 Morwick Neuky Brown EX 90 Star 1 Cuthill Towers Senga 15 Hunday Major Red EX 90 5 Middle Border Mitzy MLK Morwick Lakeside King Red EX 90 5 Morwick Brown Girl 201 Morwick Sand King Red EX 90 4 Cuthill Towers Miss Blondie 2 Cuthill Towers White Knight VG 89 2 Cuthill Towers Radar Ray 13 Hunnington Mandella VG 89 2 Cuthill Towers Dairy Maid 14 Cuthill Towers White Knight VG 86 1 Cuthill Towers Oblique Tot Jelyca Oblique VG 86 1 Cuthill Towers Autumn Leaf 3 B Jurist VG 85 1 Cuthill Towers Classic Ellie Poos Stadel Classic VG 85 1 Cuthill Towers Crown Ray Ardmore Crown Napier VG 85 1 Cuthill Towers Peony Rose 2 Poos Stadel Classic VG 85 1 Devas C Roskilly Devas Whitelady 25 Tregonwell White Blaize EX 92 (3) LP 60 9 Devas Julia 4 Blackaddar Isle Milkman VG 85 LP 60 9 Druids Druids Lodge Partnership Druids Red Bellflower 40 McCornick Nelson LP 60 5 Drumrammer V A Turtle Drumrammer Sylvia 71 Ravenhill Enigma EX 90 3 Duchy HRH The Duke Of Cornwall Duchy Snowie Days 5 Cuthill Towers Autumn Gold EX 94 11 Duchy Flora 36 Mardel Volage EX 92 9 Duchy Moonlights Posie 14 Covey-Farms Reno EX 92 7 Duchy Plum 22 Changue Tryst EX 92 (2) 4 Duchy Aggies Jethro 4 Rosehill Blackthorn EX 91 (2) 5 Duchy Annie 5 Changue Tryst EX 90 4 Duchy Happy Spirit 15 McCornick Nelson EX 90 8 Duchy Parham Jenny Rosehill Blackthorn EX 90 8 Duchy Plum 23 Lagace Modem EX 90 3 Duchy Amber Janet 12 Craigtown Amber VG 85 1 Duchy Buttermilk 16 Brocklehill Just Right LP 60 11 Dudley Wood G Hall & Son Dudley Wood Judith 17 Hunnington Admiral LP 80 10 East Church M D Evans East Church Admirals Blissful 2 Hunnington Admiral EX 94 (3) 6 East Church Perfection (Male) Brocklehill Buccaneer EX 94 East Church Pardners Saffire Woodland View Pardner EX 93 (2) 5 East Church Blackthorns Patsy Rosehill Blackthorn EX 92 3 East Church Pardners Patsy Woodland View Pardner EX 92 (3) 8 East Church Stans Mischief 2 Milkmaids Stanley EX 91 5 E. C. Calimeros Toffee Maker Margot Calimero EX 91 5 East Church Patrolman (Male) Jelyca Oblique EX 90 E. C. Tomahawk Milky Nadia East Church Tomahawk EX 90 4 East Church Real Fine Doll Palmyra Tri-Star Reality VG 86 1 East Drumlemble W Ralston East Drumlemble Jilly 8 Margot Calimero EX 92 (2) 4 East Drumlemble Sophie 10 Cogent Retinue Red EX 90 4 East Drumlemble Jilly 12 Des Prairies Potter VG 86 1 East Drumlemble Banquet 18 East Drumlemble Trinity VG 85 1 East Drumlemble Jill 23 East Drumlemble Trinity VG 85 1 East Drumlemble Ina 7 Knowe Sammy Ranger LP 60 8 East Drumlemble Jay 17 Knowe Sammy Ranger LP 60 9 Empire T Morris Neen Forest Joybell 117 Attwell Amadeus EX 91 5 Flintstone R A & S Arnott Haresfoot Easlad Ella Hunnington BBK Easlad EX 91 (4) 5 Hunnington Sailor Girl 123 Hunnington Mandella EX 90 5 Haresfoot Pearl 23 Pinehurst Cornerstone Red VG 86 LP 80 6 Fortfield R Stewart Fortfield Nancy 18 Rosehill Blackthorn EX 93 6 Fortfield Kate 47 Brieryside New Proof EX 91 3 Fortfield Nancy 24 Brocklehill Major EX 91 4 Fortfield Ethel 29 Cuthill Towers Mr Scot EX 90 7 Fortfield Ethel 30 Brocklehill Major EX 90 5 Fortfield Kate 33 Brocklehill Major EX 90 (2) 6 Fortfield Nancy 19 West Mossgiel Vegas EX 90 6 Cuthill Towers Magic Rock (Male) Muir Mr Magic VG 86

The Ayrshire Journal 50 Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Fortfield Megan 59 Brocklehill Major VG 86 1 Fortfield Peggy 25 Brocklehill Major VG 85 1 Garthland J A McColm Garthland Sincere Garthland Jay Jay VG 85 1 Gilfach E Jones Knutsford Flo 140 Kian EX 93 (3) 7 Knutsford Daphne 53 Meikle Laught Triple Crown EX 90 6 Knutsford Flo 123 Meikle Laught Triple Crown EX 90 8 Gilfach Destination Plover Bigginvale Destination VG 85 1 Gilfach Oblique Pretty Madam Jelyca Oblique VG 85 1 Glenchapel J K Jamieson Glenchapel Avril 90 Mark Samsson LP 60 9 Glenchapel Muriel 137 Stadel LP 60 9 Glwydeth T G R E & H Charles Glwydeth Enterprise Lena Ravenhill Enterprise VG 88 LP 60 7 Green Lane A P Arden Green Lane Dopey 79 Green Lane World Leader VG 86 1 Green Lane Avril 31 Green Lane World Leader VG 85 1 Grove T Gordon Grove Rosie 5 Morwick Sand Ranger Red EX 93 (3) 7 Grove Primrose 3 Ardrossan E V Kate’s Trident EX 92 (2) 9 Grove Dewdrop 6 Brieryside Jubilant Scot EX 90 6 Grove Daisy 17 Auchensale Star Performer VG 85 1 Grovehill D Kennedy & Son Long Bank SR Linnet 14 Morwick Sand Ranger Red VG 88 LP 80 6 Gwynnog G R Thomas Gwynnog Lakeside King Jean Morwick Lakeside King Red EX 90 4 Gwynnog Modem Jean Lagace Modem VG 86 1 Halmyre Urr L Davidson & Sons Halmyre Urr Louise 211 Halmyre Urr Jack EX 93 (2) 5 Halmyre Urr Brown Bud Halmyre Urr Wrens Star EX 92 LP 60 7 Halmyre Urr Jinks 407 Howie’s Figo EX 92 (2) 5 Halmyre Urr Louise 213 Halmyre Urr Jack EX 92 (2) 5 Halmyre Urr Martha 25 Howie’s Figo EX 92 (2) 6 Halmyre Urr Jinks 414 Howie’s Figo EX 91 5 Halmyre Urr Mayflower 240 Halmyre Urr Pinsent EX 91 3 Halmyre Urr Jinks 425 Halmyre Urr Pinsent EX 90 4 Halmyre Urr Jinks 444 Halmyre Urr Pinsent EX 90 3 Halmyre Urr Liza 7 Yellow Briar Journalist EX 90 3 Halmyre Urr Mayflower 235 Halmyre Urr Jack EX 90 5 Halmyre Urr Miss Dorothy 47 Halmyre Urr Pinsent EX 90 3 Halmyre Urr Louise 260 Palmyra Tri-Star Reality VG 88 1 Halmyre Urr Lady Jane 3 Halmyre Urr Journeyman VG 86 1 Haresfoot D Hunter Haresfoot Pamela 3 Bonnie Brae Heligo EX 90 (2) Star 3 Heads T Struthers Heads Inspirational Red Beauty Hanoverhill Inspiration VG 89 LP 60 10 Heavenly W Brassington Barr Bronze Lottie Barr Apache EX 90 4 Heydale D W Berresford & Son Heydale Winsome 97 Bonnie Brae Tuxedo EX 92 (4) LP 80 8 High Mark J S Watson Barr Sandy Rose 15 Barr Lone Ranger EX 94 (3) LP 80 9 Barr Sandy Rose 34 Dudoc Bacculum EX 93 (5) 8 Barr Sandy Rose 31 Mawdesley Bright Beam EX 92 (2) 8 Halmyre Urr Louise 231 Halmyre Urr Pinsent EX 90 3 High Mark Jurist Melanie Auchensale BL Jurist EX 90 3 Highway M H Parkes Highway Banana 15 Highway Hallmark EX 95 (4) LP 80 10 Highway Brown Fairy 5 Brocklehill Happy Spirit EX 92 (3) Star 1 Highway Madge 21 Mark Samsson EX 92 (2) 9 Highway White Catherine 10 Highway Hallmark EX 92 (2) 11 Highway Madge 14 Brieryside Super Star EX 91 12 Highway Banana 33 Green Lane Marshall EX 90 6 Highway Brown Fairy 40 Mark Samsson EX 90 5 Highway Madge 46 Woodland View Pardner EX 90 3 Highway Madge 7 Hammonds Oracle EX Star 4 Highway Madge 8 Stewartry Royal Secret EX Star 1 Highway Brown Fairy 11 Mark Samsson VG 88 LP 60 11 Highway Brown Fairy 56 Castern Tornado VG 86 1 Highway Madge 9 Bankend Lord Ontario Star 1 Horseclose J A McGarva Horseclose Jinty 41 Horseclose Einstein EX 91 4 Horseclose Valeta 42 Horseclose Klondyke EX 91 4 Horseclose Valeta 37 Mawdesley Bright Beam EX 90 5 Horseclose Nonchalant 2 Stamford United VG 86 1 Willowfields Winnie Horseclose Einstein VG 86 1 Horseclose Jinty 56 Stamford United VG 85 1 Horseclose Matilda 8 Horseclose Ferrari LP 60 7 Humeston I C Gilmour & Sons Humeston Lady Woodburn 140 Pursuit September Storm LP 60 7 Hunnington C Window Hunnington Fragy 12 Hunnington BBK Easlad EX 95 (3) 5 Pylon Easled Brieryside Super Star EX 95 (6) Star 4 Hunnington Fragrance 45 Hunnington Bequest EX 94 (4) 6 Hunnington Fragrance 50 Blackaddar BB Kellogg EX 91 (2) 4 Hunnington Easled 6 Hunnington Admiral EX 90 (2) 5 Hunnington Easled 9 Blackaddar BB Kellogg EX 90 4 Hunnington Fragrance 55 Castern Tornado EX 90 3 Hunnington Lilly 9 McCornick Nelson EX 90 3 Hunnington Monica 65 Hunnington Mandella EX 90 (2) 4 Hunnington Rosepetal Brieryside Jubilant Scot VG 86 1

51 The Ayrshire Journal Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Hunnington Sailor Girl 135 Dudley Wood Baldrick VG 85 1 Hunnington Wren 3 Carnell Asset Maker VG 85 1 Keir M Young & Sons Keir Mains Aero 5 Plum Bottom Tridents Lot LP 60 8 Keysmount P Halliwell Keysmount Nicola Middle Wades Way EX 90 3 Middle Jessie MBB Middle Brown Boy EX 90 5 Killoch A Woodburn & Sons Middle Emerald Patrick Blackaddar MM Patrick EX 90 Star 2 Kirkinriola R & M King Middle Brown Hully Middle Brown Bomber EX 92 (3) 5 Kirkinriola SPW Cuckoo Stamford Prize Winner EX 91 3 Kirkinriola SPW Margie Stamford Prize Winner EX 91 3 Kirkinriola SPW Lucky Stamford Prize Winner EX 90 3 Kirkinriola SPW Spangle Stamford Prize Winner EX 90 3 Kirkinriola BB Daisy Brocklehill Buccaneer VG 85 1 Knockenjig D M Dickie Knockenjig Tilda 5 SFL Jubs S Legend Red EX 91 (2) Star 1 Knockenjig Moss 3 Ravenhill Enterprise VG 89 LP 60 8 Knowe G Templeton Knowe White Lily 309 Muir Superior EX 90 LP 80 10 Knowe Greta 71 Knowe Brown Kindle LP 80 10 Knowe White Lily 344 Knowe Royal Salut LP 60 9 Lakeland R Watterson Lakeland Princess 4 Celandine First Lord EX 93 (3) 6 Lakeland Sally 6 Changue Tryst VG 85 1 Langside A Gray & Son Langside Cactus Horizon Ranger Red EX 93 LP 60 9 Longwood T Crawford & Co Ltd Marsh View Sabre Marie Briar Factor Sabre Red EX 94 (4) 7 Haresfoot Eunice 70 Morwick Sand Ranger Red EX 93 (3) 8 Longwood Magic Marie Rosedale Mr Magic EX 90 (2) 4 Lyner C Walters Lyner Brandysnap 10 Meggitt Amigo EX 94 (5) 12 Lyner Rosehip 4 Meggitt Amigo EX 93 (4) 12 Lyner Annabelle 2 Moorlands Fire Rebel EX 92 (5) 7 Lyner Prudence 3 Lyner Ferdinand EX 92 (2) 5 Lyner Sensation Red 6 Lyner Blue Benji EX 92 (4) LP 60 10 Moorland Japonica 2 Lyner Blue Benji EX 92 (4) 8 Lyner Gerda 19 Lyner Tank Topper EX 91 (2) 5 Lyner Polka Dot 4 Blackaddar Isle Milkman EX 91 4 Lyner Brandysnap 23 Stamford Trigger EX 90 4 Lyner Emmas Foxtrot Royalcroft Brendan EX 90 LP 60 8 Lyner Fairystory 3 Lyner Ferdinand EX 90 5 Lyner Foxtrot Royalcroft Brendan EX 90 LP 60 8 Lyner Foxtrot 5 Auchensale BL Jurist EX 90 4 Lyner Iona Lyner Ferdinand EX 90 4 Lyner Kitz 4 Stamford Convincer EX 90 3 Lyner Pollyanna 3 Lyner Ferdinand EX 90 5 Lyner Alex Kitz 6 Lyner Brandysnap Alexander VG 86 1 Lyner Brown Brandysnap 27 Lyner Charlie Brown VG 86 1 Mair’s C Mair Mair’s Ronaldo (Male) Ladino Park Talent EX 92 Mapleburn Mr McQuat Haresfoot Bella 6 Horizon Ranger Red EX 95 (7) Star 3 Marleycote G G Baynes & Son Park Head Bunty Stelbro Design EX 93 LP 60 6 Marsh View M/s Bolderston & Partners Marsh View Pamela 4 Kellcrest Ice Man VG 86 LP 60 10 Meathop S Harrison Meathop Tryst Sandie 2 Changue Tryst EX 90 4 Pylon Rene 9 Pylon Crusader EX 90 LP 60 8 Meathop Napier Knotgrass 7 Ardmore Crown Napier VG 86 1 Meathop Jet Gemini Fradon Jet-Red VG 85 1 Middle J Whiteford & Sons Middle Emerald BB 3 Middle Brown Boy VG 86 LP 60 7 Middle Jean Oranje E Middle Oranje Elegant LP 60 6 Mossburnhill R Fleming Mossburnhill Maggie 10 Brocklehill Major EX 90 4 Muir W & A Watson Muir Regiment Laura Carrousel Regiment Red VG 88 LP 60 6 New Close H & J E Watson New Close Belinda 30 B. Canadian Commander EX 90 4 New Close Caroline 26 B. Canadian Commander EX 90 7 New Close Countess 4 B. Canadian Commander EX 90 7 Swaites Nailer (Male) Hawksfield Blue Sky VG 87 Northshields J & I Wilson Middle Jordan Jean Rulesmains Jordan Red EX 93 (2) 4 Pagewood M Aidley Attwell Bessie 44 Haresfoot Blaze EX 93 (2) 4 Attwell Mirlie Girl 12 Bankend Brown Bomber EX 91 8 Pam Ayrs P Coryn & J Pollard Tregays Rosie 33 Ballyclan First Command EX 95 (7) Star 2 Park Head H Tinker & Sons Park Head Bunty 2 Park Head Wrendition LP 60 6 Park Head Diana Red 2 Baileys Mr Red Heart LP 80 8 Penrhallt P & T Jeffries Penrhallt Marina 11 Changue Tryst EX 91 5 Middle Emerald Madge Middle Red Emerald EX 90 4 Penrhallt Roselinda 4 Woodland View Pardner EX 90 4 Penrhallt Whisky 4 Changue Tryst EX 90 5 Plaskett M/s Armstrong Plaskett Lucky Charm 252 Round Bush Edward EX 94 (2) 8 Plaskett Lucky Charm 251 Round Bush Edward EX 93 (2) 8 Plaskett Queenie 54 Stamford Trigger EX 91 6 Horseclose Joint Venture (Male) Hawksfield Blue Sky EX 90 Plaskett Dewdrop 69 Blackaddar Isle Milkman EX 90 8

The Ayrshire Journal 52 Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Plaskett Jolly 216 Meikle Laught Top Value EX 90 3 Plaskett Lucky Charm 264 Stamford Milk Link EX 90 6 Plaskett Janie 131 Haresfoot Elmo VG 87 1 Priestland Mrs J McLean Atley Hill Yellow Pamela Yellow Briar Journalist VG 89 2 Marleycote Sea Lily 14 Des Prairies Potter VG 89 2 Pylon D R & J Heasman Pylon Ellie 2 Highway Billy Ruffian EX 90 3 Ravenhill J Suffern Ravenhill Tulip 26 Ballyclan First Command EX 94 (6) Star 3 Ravenhill Ethel 393 McCornick Nelson EX 93 (4) 6 Ravenhill Tulip 55 Ardrossan E V Kate’s Trident EX 93 (5) 8 Ravenhill Ethel 200 Ballyclan First Command EX 92 (4) Star 8 Ravenhill Ethel 245 Bankend Lord Ontario EX 92 (5) Star 1 Ravenhill Ethel 344 Ravenhill Quandary EX 91 (4) LP 60 8 Ravenhill Ethel 430 Auchensale BL Jurist EX 91 (2) 4 Ravenhill Fergie 7 Ravenhill Innisfree EX 91 (4) 7 Ravenhill Ethel 394 Ravenhill Enterprise EX 90 (2) 6 Ravenhill Ethel 407 Ardmore Nepal EX 90 (2) 5 Ravenhill Ethel 442 B Jurist EX 90 (2) 4 Ravenhill Fairy 16 Ravenhill Cavalier EX 90 4 Ravenhill Queen 163 Ballyclan First Command EX 90 LP 60 9 Ravenhill Tulip 15 Torpane EX 90 Star 4 Ravenhill Tulip 4 Ballyclan First Command VG 88 Star 3 Ravenhill Tulip 68 Des Chamois Pat Laro VG 87 LP 60 6 Ravenhill Ethel 517 Duo Star Normandin VG 86 1 Ballyclan Tulip 204 Bankend Lord Ontario VG 86 Star 6 Ravenhill Ethel 392 McCornick Nelson VG 86 Star 1 Ravenhill Ethel 518 Rosehill Blackthorn VG 85 1 Ravenhill May 37 Attwell Acorn VG 85 LP 60 9 Richaven R A Bown Richaven Rock Stocking Red Baileys Red Rock Red EX 91 (2) 3 Rogus L J R B & J V Tristram Rogus Edge 2 Golden Cosmonaut Red LP 60 7 Rogus Eel 11 Bankend Nucleus LP 60 12 Rogus Hayley 2 Pirkkulan Eemil LP 60 9 Rogus Hollow Halmyre Urr Limelight LP 60 9 Rosehill W R C & J E Christophers Rosehill Magenta Cuthill Towers Sir Adam EX 94 (8) LP 80 Star 2 10 Rosehill Jubilee Bouquet Brieryside Jubilant Scot EX 93 (5) LP 60 8 Rosehill Indecision Horizon Ranger Red EX 92 LP 80 9 Rosehill Sugary Morwick Royalist EX 92 (6) LP 80 12 Rosehill Amberside Brieryside Jubilant Scot EX 91 (5) LP 60 8 Rosehill Amberish Bankend Photo Finish EX 90 (2) LP 80 11 Rosehill Magic Carpet Rosehill Slightly Magic VG 85 PA 1 1 D J Christophers Rosehill Madrid Meggitt Amigo EX 92 LP 80 10 Rosehill’ T R D Christophers Rosehill’ Black Beauty Rosehill Blackthorn EX 93 (5) LP 80 10 Ryecroft D & K Haworth Ryecroft Top Neta Dalesend Triple Top LP 60 9 Ryemuir W Sloan & Co Ryemuir Chatter Flo K C Roses Chatter T Red EX 90 4 Ryemuir Tornado Flo Ryecroft Tornado EX 90 LP 80 11 Ryemuir Lennard Fortune Lennard Red VG 86 1 Ryemuir Roseman Spankie Sterndale Roseman Red VG 86 1 Sandersfarms A J & S M Sanders Sandersfarms Ashlyn Biddy Orraryd EX 93 (2) 4 Sandersfarms Cassi Blackberry B Jurist EX 90 3 Sandersfarms Celestina Faith Melby EX 90 3 Sandersfarms Nova Jewel Changue Tryst VG 89 2 Sandersfarms Perfect Hope B Jurist VG 85 1 Sanderson D & C Sanderson Sanderson ES Isobell 169 Sanderson Extra Special EX 91 5 Sanderson BV Peach 8 Barr Valiant EX 90 4 Sanderson BV Princess 48 Barr Valiant EX 90 4 Sanderson Whiterose Ha 7 Hunnington Admiral EX 90 6 Sanderson George Evergreen 575 Sanderson George VG 85 1 Sanderson George Miss Mary Sanderson George VG 85 1 Sanderson George Susan Sanderson George VG 85 1 Sanderson LFE Surprise 2 Sanderson Lost For Ever VG 85 1 Sandyford E T Tomlinson & Son Sandyford Fable 3 Attwell Admiral EX 95 LP 60 6 Sandyford Wren 8 Pinehurst Frontline-Red EX 93 (4) LP 60 7 Sandyford Joan Blackaddar Eagan VG 85 LP 80 8 Stamford H W Oultram & Co Patshill Cherryleaf 4 Horseclose Fortune Seeker EX 94 (4) 9 Stamford Charm 59 Stamford First Quality EX 94 (2) 5 Stamford Punch 14 Stamford Trigger EX 93 (3) 6 Stamford Flash Girl 39 Auchensale Star Performer EX 92 4 Stamford Galaxie 6 Craigtown Amber EX 92 (2) 5 Stamford Lady Marina Attwell Amadeus EX 92 3 Stamford Miss Norma 54 Changue Tryst EX 92 (2) 4 Stamford Wren 4 Ardrossan E V Kate’s Trident EX 92 (2) 4 Acton Princess Poker McCornick Nelson EX 91 (3) 5 Stamford Babs 13 Stamford Trigger EX 91 (3) 5 Stamford Creampot 9 Changue Tryst EX 91 3

53 The Ayrshire Journal Prefix Owner/Breeder Animal’s Name Sire Class. Award Lact. Stamford Miss Norma 48 Plum Bottom Trident’s Lot EX 91 (2) 5 Stamford Miss Norma 62 Trevaskis Matchmaker EX 91 3 Stamford Obstinate 121 Stamford Convincer EX 91 4 Stamford Princess 27 McCornick Nelson EX 91 4 Stamford Untold Stamford Gold Hero EX 91 LP 60 7 Stamford Western 38 Changue Tryst EX 91 3 Stamford Wren 3 Stamford Trafalgar EX 91 (3) 5 Stamford Doreen 14 Changue Tryst EX 90 4 Stamford Roselinda 68 Stamford First Prize EX 90 5 Stamford Spottie 8 Changue Back Up EX 90 4 Stamford Miss Norma 76 Castern Thunder VG 87 1 Stamford Babs 7 McCornick Nelson VG 86 LP 60 7 Stamford Cherryleaf 2 Stamford Ambassador VG 86 1 Stamford Miss Norma 72 Stamford Henrik VG 86 1 Stamford Miss Norma 82 Plum Bottom Tridents Lot VG 86 1 Stamford Miss Norma 84 Stamford Convincer VG 86 1 Stamford Flash Girl 47 Stamford Convincer VG 85 1 Stamford Hera 12 Highway Tourist VG 85 1 Stamford Miss Norma 78 Stamford Tricorn VG 85 1 Stamford Miss Norma 80 Stamford Ambassador VG 85 1 Stamford Pimple 6 Stamford First Quality VG 85 1 Swaites J Adamson & Son Swaites Brides Blossom 8 Brieryside High Profile EX 90 LP 60 6 Syke W B Templeton Syke Glencairn Lolita Ardmore Crown Napier VG 87 1 Troutbeck F Mattinson Middle Priscilla ME Middle Milestone Emerald VG 89 LP 60 9 Calderglen Gwen Middle Milestone Emerald LP 80 11 Tudor S F R & C A Perry East Church Nelson Rosetta McCornick Nelson EX 90 3 Trewmount A Emerson Dunkeerin Peggy 6 Kellcrest Ice Man EX 91 (2) 7 Trewmount Lark 2 Ardrossan E V Kate’s Trident EX 90 (2) 6 Trewmount Snowgirl 4 Trewmount Commander EX 90 5 Willoxton Jaye Hester 37 Humeston Chapter One EX 90 5 Wellhouse Firm Of J M Howie Haresfoot Bomber Pamela Bankend Brown Bomber EX 92 (2) 4 West Mossgiel R & R B Cunningham Barr Astral Maid 34 Barr Quicksilver EX 93 (6) 10 West Mossgiel Miss Modern 8 Ecstasy Speculation Red EX 93 LP 80 9 West Mossgiel Cherub 157 Carrousel Distrigene Red VG 88 LP 60 7 Killoch Endurance (Male) Scientific Destry VG 87 West Mossgiel Cora 110 West Mossgiel Class Surprise VG 86 1 West Mossgiel Mayflower 212 West Mossgiel Aramis VG 86 1 West Mossgiel Mayflower 215 West Mossgiel Aramis VG 86 1 West Mossgiel Surprise Queenie West Mossgiel Class Surprise VG 85 1 West Spittal M Young Barr Class Lottie West Mossgiel Class Talent EX 92 4 West Spittal Heather 98 West Spittal Regiment Red EX 92 (2) 5 West Spittal Heather 101 West Spittal Regiment Red EX 92 (2) 4 West Spittal Caress 24 West Spittal Regiment Red EX 91 (2) 6 West Spittal Elevation 4 McCornick Navigator EX 91 (2) 4 West Spittal Heather 84 West Spittal Regiment Red EX 91 (3) 6 West Spittal Heather 113 West Spittal Regiment Red EX 91 3 West Spittal Caress 44 Willsbro Red Razzle VG 86 1 Whitecroft J D & B F Broadley Whitecroft Emmie 63 Brieryside Centurian EX 91 LP 80 8 Whitecroft Nellie 29 Whitecroft.. Murphy EX 90 Star 2 Whitecroft Nellie 35 Stretton Triple Prime EX 90 (2) Star 1 Whitecroft Sarah Whitecroft Double R VG 85 LP 80 8 Whitecroft Anna 46 Covey Farms Reno LP 80 9 Whitecroft Bella 30 Stadel LP 60 7 Whitecroft Katie Whitecroft Double R LP 60 7 Whitecroft Mary 13 McCornick Nelson LP 60 8 Willhome P G & S Williams Pam Ayrs Lotta Rosie Plum Bottom Tridents Lot EX 94 (2) 4 Pam Ayrs Right On Rosie Horizon Ranger Red EX 94 (5) 7 Willhome Gold Brenda Cuthill Towers Autumn Gold EX 92 3 Middle Welsh Middle Red Emerald EX 91 3 Willhome Nelson Rosa McCornick Nelson EX 91 (2) 5 Pam Ayrs Blazing Rosie Haresfoot Blaze EX 90 3 Willhome Gold Flo 2 Cuthill Towers Autumn Gold EX 90 3 Willhome Jake Pansy Holmland Jake Red VG 89 2 Smartmove Calimero Ruby Margot Calimero VG 88 1 Willhome Gold Pansy 3 Cuthill Towers Autumn Gold VG 87 1 Haresfoot Napier Ella Ardmore Crown Napier VG 86 1 Hunnington Easled 11 Hunnington Admiral VG 86 1 Pam Ayrs Wi-Fi Rosie Lagace Modem VG 86 1 Willhome Modem Caroline Lagace Modem VG 86 1 Willhome Nelson Omlette McCornick Nelson VG 86 1 Willhome Ristourn Mary Lagace Ristourn VG 86 1 Willhome Gold Ladybird 4 Cuthill Towers Autumn Gold VG 85 1 Wroughton M Windel Wroughton Ruby 2 Mawdesley Bright Beam EX 94 (3) Star 3 Wroughton Janet 3 Rosehill Blackthorn VG 86 1 Wroughton Lisa Wroughton Gold Star LP 60 8 Wroughton Mabel Wroughton Brooke Bond LP 60 8 The Ayrshire Journal 54 55 The Ayrshire Journal Club News Countrywide Ayr County Progeny Group - 1-S Bailey (Hunnington Kellogg Star), 2-A Norbury (Booth’s Marriot), 3-S Oultram (Stamford Ambassador) The annual herds competition was on Thursday 28 November with six Young Stock - 1-A Norbury, 2-A Coutts, 3-M Partington herds taking part. The judge was James Howie, Muirside, Dumfries, and the competition was sponsored by John D Laird, Agricultural Contractor; Cornwall Semex UK; Harbro Ltd and Quest Farm Supplies Ltd. Results as In November, we held our annual dinner and dance and were once again follows - Overall Herd - Challenge Trophy - G & G Templeton delighted to have the Society President and his wife as our guests. Of Large Herd - Bargower Cup - 1-G & G Templeton, 2-J & G Lawrie, course, this time they didn`t have far to travel as it was our own Mr and 3-J & K Rennie Mrs Colin Christophers. Following the dinner, Keith Stephens announced Small Herd - Pant Trophy - 1-G & R Templeton, 2-W M McHarg the results of our herd competitions which had been judged by Rodney Cow Family - Wheatrig Trophy - 1-Arran View Napier Denise (Ardmore and Annabel Armstrong. Crown Napier) and Arran View FT Denise (M. Fair Trade), 2-Brieryside McLaren Cup - Six Cows Prod. & Inspec. -1-W R C & J E Christophers, Doris Day (N. Supreme Red) and Brieryside Stadel Doris Day (Poo’s 2-A C & D C Walters, 3-T Howe Stadel Classic) (Sisters), 3-Knowe Dainty Lass 179 (Green Lane World Trevilges Cup - Three Heifers Prod. & Inspec. - 1-B Coombe, Leader) and Knowe Dainty Lass 185 (R. Provider) (Sisters) 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-T Howe Individual Cow - Stoneleigh Trophy - 1-Brieryside Profile Cherry VG Wilton Memorial Cup - Four Cows & Two Heifers Inspec. Only - 89 (Brieryside High Profile), 2-Arran View FT Denise (Muirston Fair Trade), 1-A C & D C Walters, 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-T R D Christophers 3-Brocklehill Golden Honey (Humeston Golden Bolt) Bickford-Smith Cup - Family Group - 1-A C & D C Walters, Progeny Group - Howie Cup - 1-Brocklehill – Brocklehill Editor, 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-E Roskilly 2-Knowe – Richaven Provider EX 95, 3-Sandyford – Poos Stadel Classic Blackrock Cup - Senior Cow - 1-A C & D C Walters, Best Heifer - (sponsored by Semex UK) - 1-Carnell Snowdrop 290 2-T R D Christophers, 3-E Roskilly (Leonard Red), 2-Brocklehill Classic Cora (Poos Stadel Classic), 3-Knowe Tregonwell Cup - Progeny Group - 1-A C & D C Walters (S. Convincer), White Lily 515 (West Mossgiel Modern Class) 2-W R C & J E Christophers (R. Blackthorn), 3-B Coombe (C. Tryst) Best Cow Or Heifer - 1-Knowe Bertha 222 (R. Provider), 2-Croftside Trillian Cup - Quality Milk - 1-T Howe, 2-C & H Roskilly, Beauty 11 (B. Aviator), 3-Brocklehill Calimero Raquel (M. Calimero) 3-A C & D C Walters R & W Cow Or Heifer - 1-Carnell Razzle Belle (W. Red Razzle), Williams Salver - Profit Maker - 1-M/s Coryn & Pollard, 2-Brieryside Northernstar Ranger (M. Northernstar Red Red Red ET) 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-T Howe Best New Entrant - 1-D C & A D Morgan Haymar Cup - Up To 18 Months - 1-W R C & J E Christophers, 2-A C & D C Walters, 3-T Howe In the New Year, the club held their Presentation Dinner at The Royal Homedene Cup - 18 Months To Three Years - 1-A C & D C Walters, Hotel, Cumnock and after a very enjoyable meal, Mr John Barclay, 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-T R D Christophers Mid Brockloch, Maybole was our excellent after dinner speaker. Then Cattle Services (Ayr ) Trophy - Progeny Of Young Bull - it was on to the presentation of the herd competition trophies to the 1-A C & D C Walters (Family -AF Poker Duncan), 2-T R D Christophers prize winners where thanks must go to Marion Laird for presenting them. (Rosehill Rhythmajig), 3-W R C & J E Christophers (Rosehill Rhythmajig) Thanks must also go to Heather Barclay for drawing the winning raffle Bargus Cup - One Animal From Small Herd - 1-B Coombe, tickets and to David Laird, Agricultural Contractor; Semex UK; Harbro 2-D Christophers, 3-E Roskilly Ltd and Quest Farm Supplies Ltd for sponsoring the herd competition Rosie Trophy - Progeny Pair (Female Line) - 1-T R D Christophers, as without them the competition could not be done. At the end of the 2-A C & D C Walters, 3-W R C & J E Christophers month we held a quiz night in conjunction with the West of Scotland Trevaskis Calf Trophy - junior members calf - 1-Megan Stratton, Holstein Club where an enjoyable night was had by all. Thanks must go 2-Tegan Prisk to Question Master, Mr Parker. The results were:- 1-Stair Egg Heads Pauls Agriculture Cup - most points overall - 1-A C & D C Walters, – W Watson, G & A Allan; 2-Baldies – B & J Kennedy and R Wallace; 2-W R C & J E Christophers, 3-T Howe 3-Holstein B – R Briggs, C Cochrane and S Mitchell. Into February we Gargus Cup - Best Heifer - 1-W R C & J E Christophers (Rosehill Just held our annual joint panel Night with the West of Scotland Holstein Club Black Magenta) consisting of Jack Lamb, David Brown, Willie Kerr, with Robbie Duncan Rosehill Cup - Best Cow - 1-A C & D C Walters (Lyner Annabella 2) chairing. An enjoyable evening was had all. Please give the Club’s page on Facebook a like - Ayr County Ayrshire Cattle Club. In December, we held our usual get-together for a beetle drive. We then enjoyed a lovely supper and exchanged Christmas cards. In January, Cheshire we had an evening with a local vet, Mr James Kennedy, who discussed Herd Competition 2013 - Judge - G Benson - Results as follows: the need to look after and feed calves better to enable them to be calved Adult Stock Inspec. & Prod. - 1- S Oultram, 2-A Norbury, 3-I Patrick young. He also shared some Scottish poetry and some whisky tasting Adult Inspec. Only - 1-S Oultram, 2-A Norbury, 3-M Partington with us. James comes from Ireland, but declares himself an Ulster Scot Two Females By Same Sire - Inspec. & Prod. - 1-S Bailey (Normead so celebrates Burns night. In February we held our darts night, when Supreme Red), 2-S Oultram (S. Trigger), 3-I Patrick (R. Blackthorn) Julie Prisk won the singles trophy before going on to win the doubles Lifetime Yield Of Fat & Protein - 1-S Oultram - Stamford Freda 15 trophy with her partner Trevor Howe. Now we are looking forward to Dam And Her Daughters - 1-I Patrick (Julie), 2-M Partington (Buntee), welcoming lots of you to the conference in May. 3-S Oultram (Cherry Leaf) Best Cow - 1-M Aidley - Attwell Bessie 44 (Haresfoot Blaze), 2-S Bailey Cumberland - Brieryside Esmie (Normead Supreme Red), 3-A Norbury - Booth’s Ideal Over 70 members attended the club’s dinner dance in November last 38 (Stamford Horatio) year. We were joined by our herds competition judge, Mr Paul Harrison, Best Heifer - S Bailey - Beeline Star Lora (Hunnington Kellogg Star), and his wife Ann. The trophies and prizes were given out for the 2013 2-S Oultram - Stamford Pimple 6 (Stamford First Quality), 3-A Norbury - herds and progeny competitions. The club is continuing their fundraising Booth’s Crummie 7 (Loukat Oz) for the 2015 conference. In March, a committee meeting will coincide Cell Count - 1-A Norbury, 2-I Patrick with St Patricks day so Irish stew will be served and everyone who The Ayrshire Journal 56 doesn’t wear green will have a fine to pay, of course other fundraisers Windchime 10, 2-R J R & S A Ashford - Bowden Megamyst, 3-R C & T will be carried out through the year. Planning is well underway for this Martin - Gables Bella. year’s club competitions and stock judging. Spreyton Senior Cup - Group Of Six Cows - 1-R & A Cornish, 2-R J R & S A Ashford, 3-J Pearce. The club’s AGM was held at the end of February at The Auctioneer, Cow of the Year 2013 - 1-R & A Cornish - Butter Besley Laro Ruby, Carlise. The club officials for the coming year are: President - N Armstrong, 2-R C & T Martin - Hilltown Violet 231, 3-R J R & S A - Ashford Bowden Chairman - C Sanderson, Secretary - A Armstrong and Treasurer - M Larromyst. Mattinson. After a short meeting was held, David Galbraith, Society Rackleigh Perpetual Challenge Trophy - Group Of Six Bulling Chairman and Christine Knipe, Chief Executive, from The Westmorland Heifers - 1-M D Evans, 2-R J R & S A Ashford, 3=W B & E F Marnham. Agricultural Society gave a very informative talk to the club about the and R C & T Martin history of the show and the Society. Willesley Award - Pair Of In-calf Heifers - 1-R J R & S A Ashford, 2-M D Evans, 3-R J R & S A Ashford. Derbyshire Harold Cligg Cup - cow given milk of highest financial value during last lactation - 1-Tristram Family - Rogus Escallonia 3, 2-R J R & S A Ashford - Rosehill Prickly Apple. Meikles Cup - cow with highest lifetime yield - 1-Tristram Family - Rogus Embroidery 3, 2-M D Evans - Warmhill Naomi 2, 3-R J R & S A Ashford - Bowden Gamma Ray. BOCM Pauls cup for quality milk - 1-R & A Cornish, 2=M/s Grant & Pearce and Tristram Family, 4-R J R & S A Ashford. Warmhill Shield - Three Cows Having Calved At Least Once Inspection Only - 1-M D Evans, 2-R & A Cornish, 3-L Rockett & T Marshall. East Church Silver Salver - Club Member 16 And Under Gaining The Most Points In Handler Classes With An Ayrshire - 1=Abby Marshall and Courtney Martin, 3-Reece Martin Menadue Cup For Heifer Having Calved Once - Inspection Only - 1-R & A Cornish - Combe Bow Cilla 10, 2-B Bowman - Orchid Rosie, Winning quiz team 3-M/s Ashford - Bowden Amigos Red. Our photographic competition was held in November when members met Robert Adams Cup - Best Individual Cow - Inspection Only - at The Bluebell Inn, Tissington to view the photographs that were entered 1-S Perry - East Church Rosetta. 2-L Rockett and T Marshall - Shamrock into the competition and also to place two classes of photographs on the night. A big thank you to those members who entered almost seventy Dumfries & District photographs in all and the master judge, who had the very difficult job of A small crowd gathered for the club’s snooker night which was held at placing the photographs, was Mr Tom Ikin. An enjoyable social evening the Sands Snooker Centre, Dumfries in late February. After members was had by all and was concluded with a ‘pie & chips’ supper. The were paired up, the event got started with every pair playing against each winners of the judging competition on the night were as follows: other. It would be fair to say that the level of skill on the night “varied” Gents - 1-A Broadley, 2-M Needham with a few of the games being decided through chairman Bryce’s “one Ladies - 1-J Adams, =2-F Kent, J Adams and E Needham more shot” rule! When all games were finished, the most successful pairing of the night proved to be that of James Howie and Colin Davidson The Staffordshire Club joined us in January for an evening of darts, – think the rest of us needed more practice! dominoes and pool at The Shoulder of Mutton, Osmaston. This was a great social occasion with plenty of friendly competition but eventually Kintyre & District the Derbyshire Club came through as the overall winners by one win! The evening was concluded with some light refreshments. Kintyre and District Ayrshire Breeders Club held their annual heifer competition on Wednesday 27th November, when heifers from four herds In February, it was our turn to host the Inter Club Quiz when we were well presented for the judge, Mr Andrew Millar, Newlands Farm, were again joined by the Staffordshire Ayrshire Club, together with Uddingston to place in order. A good turnout of spectators followed the the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Holstein Clubs, at The Bluebell Inn, event during the day, and in the evening members and friends enjoyed Tissington. The Question Master for the evening was Mr Robert Simister dinner in the Ugadale Hotel when Mrs Janis Millar presented the prizes and following rounds of questions, including music, sport, geography, as follows: pictures/logos and trick questions, teams were challenged to make a Parkers Cup - Heifer Team - 1-T Cameron, Gartvaigh, 2-T M Ralston bull out of modelling balloons! One of our teams came out on top with & Sons, East Drumlemble, 3-J & M Barr, Calderlglen Howard and Linda Batty, David and Anne Bradley-Seddon, David Batty Kintyre Farmers Ltd Cup - Individual Heifer - 1-J & M Barr - and Jo Underwood receiving the trophy. Over 60 people attended on Calderglen Silverbell 10 (Calderglen Super Match), 2-T Cameron, the night and everyone enjoyed a pie and chips supper part way through 3-T M Ralston & Sons the evening. James & Sons - Quaich - Progeny Group -1-T M Ralston & Sons (East Drumlemble Trinity), 2-T Cameron (West Mossgiel Athos), Devon 3-J & M Barr (Calderglen Super Match) Mother & Daughter Quaich - 1-T M Ralston & Sons, 2-T Cameron, We had our annual Devon club dinner at the end of November 2013. 3-J Barbour & Co, Machriebeg Robert and Jennifer Adams travelled down to join us and give out the John Barr Memorial Tray - Butterfat And Protein - results of our 2013 herds competition. Results were as follows - 1-A Millar - Ballygreggan Nicola 4 (McCornick Navigator), 2-T M Ralston Grilstone Cup - Group Of Three Heifers - Progeny Of One Sire & Sons - East Drumlemble Violet 5 (K C Roses Chatter) 1-R J R & S A Ashford (Rosehill Blackthorn), 2-J Pearce (Menadue Iceberg), 3-MD Evans (East Church Rossini) The Club held their annual stockjudging competition at Machriebeg Farm Spreyton Junior Cup - Best individual heifer - 1-J Pearce - Menadue on Friday 28th February by kind permission of the Barbour family. Club 57 The Ayrshire Journal Chairman, Murray Ralston, welcomed a good turnout of 107 competitors we are pleased to announce the re-introduction of Ayrshire classes to judge six classes of quality Ayrshire cows and introduced Mr Hugh to Staffordshire County Show which will be held on May 28-29th.... Galbraith, Coledrain as master judge for the evening. After tea and schedules will be available shortly....hopefully it will prove to be a success. sandwiches were served, Mrs Shona Barbour presented the prizes as We are looking forward to our annual coach trip later in the year, which follows: Gents - 1-W Ralston, 2=A Armour and T Cameron will be to the Westmorland Show. Ladies - 1-E Irwin, 2-I Ronald, 3=J Pirie, A Ralston and E Young Young Farmers - 1-Graeme McMillan, 2-Frazer Cameron, 3=Craig Ulster Barbour and Iain Smith Back in November, (it seems such a long time ago now!!), we enjoyed a Juniors - 1-Ruth Turner, 2-Linzi Cameron, 3-Jack Ralston very social evening away from the cows at our annual Dinner and prize- Alta Cup - High Placed Young Farmer - Graeme McMillan giving in the Adair Arms Hotel, Ballymena. A great crowd attended and Ayrshire Society Cup - Most Points Overall - W Ralston enjoyed a delicious meal as well as a glass or two of wine!! We were delighted to welcome our President, Colin Christophers, to the evening The Club held their 42nd Annual General Meeting in the Argyll Arms and only sorry that Jenny could not make it on the night. Colin gave us Hotel, Campbeltown on Thursday 6th March and the Chairman, Murray a most interesting insight into his life in Cornwall and his journey through Ralston, welcomed twenty members to the meeting. He expressed the the years with Rosehill Ayrshires to the present day. Colin had to work sadness of the club on the death of Mr Hamish Smith a few days after hard and present the prizes after dinner to the delighted winners. Once presenting the Premier Breeders Of The Year Trophy at last year’s AGM. the ‘business’ was finished, many took to the dance floor to ‘bust some Hamish was past Chairman of the club and a dedicated supporter of the moves’!! In December, the annual Winter Fair Dairy Show took place at Ayrshire Breed. The Chairman gave a detailed account of the events Balmoral, and as usual there was a great entry of Ayrshire Cattle. A full over the past year which were well supported and thanked everyone for report appears in the journal, but I must mention the Champion, a superb their assistance in organising the Conference in May especially Robin senior cow, Haresfoot Bazooka Ella, from the Ardmore herd of John and and Iona. Michael Hunter. The Reserve Champion was the junior cow Marleycote Sea Lily 14 from Messrs Cromie and McLean. The Winter Fair is always The Treasurer, John Ferguson, presented the accounts for the year a very enjoyable show, especially as we get a chance to catch up with showing a small deficit following the Ayrshire Cattle Society Conference. lots of friends and fellow breeders from the mainland. Office bearers elected for the following year were: Chairman - T Cameron, Vice-Chairman - M Ronald, Secretary - W Ralston and Treasurer - J Our last meeting of the year took place in Greenmount College when Alex Ferguson. After some business was discussed the Chairman called on Kirkpatrick of Cattle Services kindly came over to speak about the work our guest for the evening, Mr Colin Christophers, President of the Ayrshire of the company. This was most interesting and we got an insight into Cattle Society to present the Premier Breeders Of The Year Trophy to the running of Cattle Services. At our first meeting of the New Year we the Ralston family at Drumlemble before giving a detailed account of the enjoyed the company of John Cochrane and Duncan Hunter, who gave Rosehill herd. He also gave us a report on the Society and his year as us an interesting talk and presentation about their work in the Society. President. The meeting was brought to a close with a vote of thanks by Thomas Cameron to Colin and all concerned for the success of the club. The Spring Shows and Sales commenced in February at Kilrea Market Lanark kindly sponsored by Town of Monaghan Co-Op. The judge on this occasion was young Ayrshire Breeder, Robert McConnell of the The AGM was held on 18th February. The election of the office bearers Beechmount Herd. Robert awarded the Championship to a super brought John Adamson, Swaites in as new Chairman with Russell Gray, cow, Ardmore Janet 93 (Morwick Sand Ranger) from John and Michael Langside as Vice Chairman and Avril Adamson as Secretary. John Hunter. The Reserve was a very dairy-like heifer Ravenhill Queen 204 Adamson and David Law will continue as Council Rep and Show Convenor (Ravenhill Time Zone) from John Suffern. Trade was solid throughout, respectively. Retiring Chairman, Andrew Millar thanked all members and with the Reserve selling to the top price of £1800 and the Champion office bearers for their help and support and concluded by saying how realising a price of £1650. Our next show and sale will be on the much he had enjoyed his term as Chairman. After the business was 18th April, 2014 in Ballymena Market. At our most recent meeting we conducted, we were pleased to welcome Colin Christophers, Society welcomed Denis Torrens who has recently returned home from six years President, along with John Cochrane. Colin gave an interesting insight working in the Al Danah Dairy farm enterprise in Saudi Arabia. The into the current work of the Society and also an overview of his farming video and slide presentation were fascinating and certainly showed dairy enterprise. Results for paper competitions were announced as follows: farming on a vast scale. We look forward to welcoming Alan Timbrell Spillers Trophy For Five Highest Yielding Cows - 1- W & J Adamson, who will conduct the elections and speak to us about the work of the Swaites - av. daily yield of 28.3 kg, 2- W & J Adamson - av. daily yield of Breed Heritage Committee at our next meeting. 27.1 kg, 3- A & S Lawrie, Cuthill Towers - av. daily yield of 27.0 kg Aberhill Silver Plate for Heifers Prod. & Inspec. - 1- J & J Millar, Wigtownshire Craigends - Craigends Willow 15, 2- W & J Adamson - Swaites Brown Plum, 3- A & S Lawrie - Cuthill Towers Susie. North East The North East is launching a photographic competition for 2014, and it is open to all North East members with lots of categories to encourage everyone with or without cows to take photos. No professional photos allowed and it will be judged at a social evening in March 2015. So definitely one to look forward to. The Great Yorkshire Show judge is Dawn Coryn from Cornwall, as ever I recommend entering early and Harrogate is also hosting the Tour De France over that weekend. The Myers family in Rosedale are hosting a farm walk later this summer and the North East All Breeds Calf Show will be held early in September at Thirsk Auction Market. Staffordshire The first social meeting of the New Year saw members joining Derbyshire The trophies for Wigtownshire Cattle Club 2013 herds Ayrshire Breeders for a fun evening of darts, dominoes and poole at competitions were presented at the recent dinner & dance. The Shoulder of Mutton, Osmaston. After some closely fought games, L-R - Chairman - M Service, W Stevenson (Kirminnoch), C Service Derbyshire came out triumphant by just one point!! Looking ahead, (Moorpark), J McCaig (Kilhilt) and J McColm (Garthland Mains) The Ayrshire Journal 58 59 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 60