Laceys Family Farm at Marlow are supplying the GB Hockey Team with Guernsey Milk at their training camp at Bisham Abbey. The GB teams are strongly fancied to get in amongst the medals in the London Olympics. Good Luck to both teams. Update, The Guernsey milk is doing the …
The Webbery herd of Guernseys and Jerseys are to be sold on the farm at Bideford Devon in two sales with the spring calving herd to be sold on July 30th 2012 and the autumn calving herd to be sold on the 9th October 2012. The herds are to be …
I have never experienced such a unpleasant day on a ringside anywhere in over 40 years of being on either side of the ropes with gale force winds and driving rain. Six exhibitors are to be praised for bringing out their cows in such conditions and with the TB enforced …
Don and Kath Salt have supplied a heifer calf to be shown in the name of the ARC-Addington Fund and she will be sold in 2013 to raise funds for that worthy organisation who make funds available and invest in houses for those within agriculture who find themselves in need. …
Robert Wiseman who process over one third of the liquid milk in the UK have announced a joint venture with the A2 Corporation to distribute milk from cows that have tested to be homozygous ( A2 xA2) for Beta Casein A2. Guernsey herds have the highest natural proportion of homozygous …
Saturday night saw the Annual Dinner and Competition Awards for the newly renamed Wessex Guernsey Cattle Association, which now covers Guernsey herds situated in Dorset,Gloucestershire, the Isle of Wight,Somerset and Wiltshire. Judge Martin Smith who manages the high yeilding Kingspool herd of Holsteins, that was the NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winning …
Breakdown of 2011 Female Registrations 797 heifers sired by 96 different sires with 44% sired by Non A1 sires, 41% by young AI sires and 15% by Proven AI sires. This compares with 2007 when 28% were sired by Non AI sires, 50% by young A1 sires and 22% …
Porridge will help you lose weight and perk up your sex life! The above link appeared in my in-box this morning and I thought I should pass on the Good News. The Unpasteurised Guernsey milk will most likely be from David Paull’s Hurdlebrook Guernsey herd at Babcary Somerset which …
The South West Herds competition was this year judged by John Berry, who retired in 2001 when his Sunninghill Park Guernsey herd at Windsor was sold to the Thomlinson family in Cumbria to restart their dairy farm having lost their Black and White herd to Foot and Mouth. John has …
Whilst reviewing the Top Cow proofs released today by Dairy Co, my attention was caught by Carne Quoit, the highest ranked heifer by PLI in England & Wales with a PLI of +£131, but it is her great grandmother Carne Tennis who will feature here. This remarkable cow had 13 calves, calving …