Digby Gribble The ARC-Addington Fund has received £3800 as a result of the recent fund raising efforts which gave the chance of £1000 or the top class heifer Aber Showtime Dancer 5 . The winners of the draw are the Greenslade family from Blackborough, Devon who are amongst the most active supporters …
Just three exhibitors represented the Guernsey breed at Honiton on a miserable wet day and Caroline Greenslade swept the board winning every class and Champion and Reserve and Honorable Mention.
The only competitive class was the Maiden heifer class with 5 forward and Greensfield Iceberg Junes Star continued her winning ways, with Brian and Sheila Adams Wiltown Mayflower in second place and Kingwell Lucky Trout from Jon White in third place.
The Manford family from Hinxden, Cranbrook Kent produced the Champion in the Channel Island section at the Kent County show with Hinxden Glitter 7 a daughter of Jens Gold G Hawk and recently classified as H88. The judge was UK Jersey Chairman Charles Reader, but I noticed that Margaret Howie …
EGCS Joint Presidents George and Elsie Fallows travelled to Guernsey last week to attend the Island Show, but were able to visit 4 herds that do not compete at the Island Show and were pleased to spend time with Guernsey farmers and their families and saw some outstanding cows that would have been very competitive had they been at the show on Thursday. With Guernsey Island hosting the 2013 Guernsey World Conference there does need to be a concerted effort to get some of these cows to the Conference Show. The Australians managed to put on a superb display in 2007 in the midst of a serious drought and given the vast distances that separate the breeders overthere so lets hope that Guernsey can put on an inclusive display.
The Adamsons herd of Frank and Caroline Le Cheminant contained some outstanding cows and I wasn’t able to identify every cow that I photo’d but a good cow is a good cow whether you know who she is or not!
Adamsons second calver
Bon & Margaret Martel produced another strong team from the Les Jaonnets herd to set the standard at the 98th RGHA Show, there were 5 exhibitors in the cow classes and the winner of Class One for cows six years and over was Les Jaonnets Sunny Maid who is milking with her 4th Calf and had given over 10,000 kgs with her third lactation. She is the dam of Les Jaonetts Conquerors Merlin who has semen available from EGCS at present. Sunny Maid was later awarded the Championship and the Queens Cup.
Guernsey milk products were amongst the prize winners at this years Nantwich International Cheese show which with over 3700 entries from across the world claims to be the biggest. Winning a Gold Medal for their Plain Yoghurt were Tiresford Guernsey Gold and this will give great pleasure to Andrew, Sue …
Non-pedigree Guernseys from the Jakeman family of Upton on Severn met a strong demand when sold at the Bristol Sales Centre in the monthly sale organised by Norton & Brooksbank and Gwilwmn Richards with an average of £1030 for the 54 cows and £404 for the 51 maiden heifers. Main …
Mark & Susan Jones from Garway, Hereford are taking part in Herefordshire Food week between 13th and 20th August with the ice cream production open to the public each morning and farm walks and the afternoon milking available to be seen each afternoon. This is a worthwhile effort and goes …
I have known Chris Carpenter for several years as I met him originally in Sussex when he was milking and managing a herd of Guernseys and “Dutch” bred Holsteins for Clive Stickland at Billingshurst and making a very good job of the herd. We lost touch when he moved to another herd, but about three years ago he rang to say that he was on the shortlist for a “Council” tenanted farm and if successful would like to milk Guernseys, that didn’t work out on that occasion but he did not give up on his dream.
By chance on Wednesday at the NMR/RABDF Open Day at Bristol I met with James Hanks of Reading University who has developed the software used by NMR in their Interherd programs the best known of which is Herd Companion. This allows analysis of 17 Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) of data collected at the monthly milk recording and shows a five year history for each herd.
James has done analysis of a group of 33 Guernsey herds that have the full NMR recording program and has made a link available for us to use.