A quick round-up of the season’s calves. Shadybrook Powerplay 802U is now a grandsire: his daughter D. Lancaster 268 calved a bull calf by D. Uncle Ted 210 in February. We only used a limited amount of Powerplay semen, so she is our one breeding-age daughter of his,...
Six months in the making, and finally the semen has arrived in South Africa for our autumn 2017 joining. We did some serious research to find the best genetics for our operation, and Stockman 4Z more than fits the bill. From Kirk Seaborn’s world-renowned Crooked...
We entered four grandsons of Spry’s All Gold D052 into Phase C testing, and by the end of December 2016 the results were in: two Gold and two Silver Merits! Three of them are sons of Duncraggan Smashing Stuff 103, our All Gold son, and between them they earned one...
Good news from Australia. Malton Jackson, a son of Spry’s All Gold D052, was named supreme Shorthorn at the Royal Melbourne Show on 26 September 2015. Peter Falls of Malton Shorthorns, who paid $25,000 for All Gold at Spry’s 2011 sale, reminded the judges where...
As we see stock like this on the ground, we are comfortable we are moving in the right direction with our herds. We picked Smashing Stuff out as a youngster, and briefly wrote about him in the autumn 2012 edition of our newsletter. We have kept him largely under...
