This particular beautiful girl has arrived in the most perfect home at Arundells Farm, Curry Rivel and has ended a long succession of bull calves born to the Guernsey heifers reared by Brian and Sheila Adams.
Before the arrival of “Trudy” born on Thursday August 19th 2010 they had reared 15 heifers to downcalving since their first heifer calved in 2004 and had only had two heifer calves. With this in mind they invested in four straws of “sexed” semen from Spring Walk Sherberts Mint to use on their crop of maiden heifers. The heifers were moved when bulling to Overton Farm Babcary where the semen was stored in David Paull’s farm flask and where neighbour George did the Insemination achieving a 50% success rate.
The dam of Trudy was herself the daughter of a calf selected by Digby Gribble to go to the first All Britain All Breeds Calf show for her breeders Stuart and Alison Rathbone who were at that time milking a herd of 60 Guernseys that had originated at Bickfield. Hazeley Mayflower a daughter of Yogibear was one of the best heifers at Blacknor in Dorset in the year that Digby Gribble was milking the herd and gave over 8000 kgs as a heifer and has since scored VG88.
Trudy’s dam Chiddingstone B B Mayflower is now owned by Carol Willment and is the first cow in her Cariad herd, she has gone to Hinton Farm, Mudford Yeovil and is being milked and managed by the Bartlett family.
