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  1. woodyc

    Stirling bull sales

    This is Millerston ramsey the male champion at the recent Stirling bull sale bred by the late jack ramsey and owned by andrew thornber and family he made 16000 to the show judge
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    Scottish national winter fair

    A lot of these guys would flush heifers to produce pedigree bulls or embryos for selling then sell the female as a youngish cow there is big money In the beef shorthorns just now in the UK of its roan and shapely it will sell no problem very few people in the UK know or Indeed care about the...
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    Scottish national winter fair

    is it just the single carriers you sold?
  4. woodyc

    Scottish national winter fair

    The steer will be a double myostain carrier therefore can't be reg in the coates herd book as a breeding bull in the UK all males are tested but we are playing catch up getting females tested but we are getting there whether it was deliberately berd to be double muscled I couldn't say I have had...
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    Scottish national winter fair

    Today was the Scottish national winter fair and the native bred classes was won by a pure bred shorthorn steer bred by David soutar and produced by the Hunter family from Lanarkshire Scotland Showing prime steers in the UK was once a big operation things are on a smaller scale now but still a...
  6. woodyc

    The cover of Shorthorn Country

    On a slightly different note there was a canadain buyer in Scotland over to by a shorthorn bull for massey harris this was just after the war when it was the done thing to tour herds before the bull sale in February in perth and he was asked at a dinner just before the sale to give his thoughts...
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    Picture of a steer judge

    Does anyone know who this guy is the picture was.taken at the royal smithfield show in London UK in the late 50s or early 60s the picture only says he is the best steer judge in the US
  8. woodyc

    Hill Haven Fire Storm 28C

    would a longer calf not be easier born than a deeper bodied calf?  i suppose its all about balance in everything
  9. woodyc

    Market Steer Show Judging

    A terminal calf show winner in the uk
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    Market Steer Show Judging

    In scotland the terminal calf shows are dominated but limousin cross calves sometimes a lim x blue and they are hard fleshed but sure look pretty we had been watching a judge go through the motions in the championship one year and he had two calves up that resembled racing snakes with a fur...
  11. woodyc

    Royal Highland show 1966

    Did they also buy the bapton herd managed by Gordon blackstock In the early 60s too I seem to remember reading it was sold to canada and gordon was to go too but he died in a road accident near aberdeen in the middle 60s on the same idea louda came too uppermill all through the 1950s and bought...
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    Royal Highland show 1966

    I have found a catalouge from the royal highland show printed for the 1966 show and it lists the past winners of the uppermill cup for best female and in 1963 the winners are cadesky and Donaldson is this the louda people?
  13. woodyc

    Farming pedigree stock in the Uk and Northern Ireland

    whats the breeding of your moilies?
  14. woodyc

    stirling bull sale champ

    https://www.facebook.com/RobertSmithPhotographyandVideo/videos/1715445231831207/ here is a link to a video of the champion and top priced bull at the lastest beef shorthorn sale at stirling scotland...
  15. woodyc

    Balmyle Zeus and Balmyle Zephyr's Maine breeding

    I never saw near house James in the flesh but people said his back legs was his weakness when I was in Orkney I asked his owner Mr flett if I could see him but he took a party of us Inc james' breeder and we got to see the farm and most of the herd but he wouldnt let us near James he knew we...
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    Balmyle Zeus and Balmyle Zephyr's Maine breeding

    The cow is about 82% beef shorthorn
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    Balmyle Zeus and Balmyle Zephyr's Maine breeding

    we think as much of her we are thinking of flushing her 
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    Balmyle Zeus and Balmyle Zephyr's Maine breeding

    here are a few more of the balmyle breeding forst picture is balmyle crackle last bull to be sold by balmyle after they dispersed champion of the Perth bull sales 1990 and top price of 4000 guineas breed champion at the royal show 4 times which i think would be a record winner of the burke...
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    Balmyle Zeus and Balmyle Zephyr's Maine breeding

    here is a picture of balmyle warpath a full brother to Zeus warpath was said to be the best bull to stand at the durnos uppermill herd between the second world war and its sale to northern ireland in 2005 he won the royal highland the english royal shows the only year he was ever shown and bred...
  20. woodyc

    beef shorthorn sale stirling scotland

    we dont put pictures of the cattle look you guys do  (it costs money) we are parhaps backwards at selling our selves (there is the odd exception) nothing to stop you flying over and having a look cattle would be too big for a lot of guys in north america and fed to an inch of there lives and off...
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