email: info@rawburn.com
Roxburgh
Mains
Kelso TD5 8NJ
Tel: 01573
450 223
Fax: 01573 450 223
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Herd News Winter Update: Winter is now well upon us and unlike most of Scotland we have missed much of the rain. Most of the cattle are still outside. The heifers and first calf females are currently on the stubble fields getting ad-lib silage and 1.5 Kgs of Mineralised barley and the adult cows are being strip grazed on forage kale. The calves have weaned off well with weights similar to that of last year. No particular sire group stands out from the others at this stage with some good weights being achieved by offspring of all of the bulls. For consistency the calves from Lockerly Legolas are impressive, the bull looks to be clicking well with the Transformer daughters. The calves by Double Oseven are in a growth stage at the moment but will certainly feature at the top by 400 days. The best calves from the embryo programme have all come as females for the second year in a row. No embryo bull calf is standing out as a possible new herdsire. Amongst the females are some real stars, most notably, a daughter of Cottage Creek Tyra by CCL Dateline and a daughter of Argwen Barbara by Prairielane Ideal. We are expecting big things from the embryos in 2012 with the first arrival of calves from our US donor Hoff Blackbird and more from CCL Dateline; a bull we feel will have a major impact in the herd. After the unfortunate end of the Best of the Blacks sale in 2010 we returned to selling our sale offering of heifers at the October Stirling bull sale. Topping at 12,000gns and with 10 averaging 5150gns, we were delighted. Private sales have also been brisk with 27 females selling to start a new herd in the Grampian area and the continued development of a new Lancashire herd. 2011
has been a great year for the Rawburn herd and Rawburn genetics
with numerous highlights for both our customers and ourselves. We
hope that this year is just as successful and invite you to come
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