FAR LEFT Coxongreen Shottle Zindra is an Ex90 third calver.
LEFT Whitgreave Goldwyn Rhapsody stood 3rd at Nantwich Show as a heifer and is an Ex92 third calver.
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I really enjoy buying into proven families and it is rewarding when they breed and develop a strong family for me
grown for the first time this year. The remainder of the farm is in grass. Cows are fed to yield in the parlour and during summer cows are grazed with a top up of grass silage and brewers grains. In the winter the ration is made up of grass silage, whole-crop wheat, maize, lucerne and a 30% protein nut.
The herd has been entering the Staffordshire herds competition for six years now and Paul is enjoying improved success each year, a recognition of improvements he has made. They were second small herd in the summer herd competition in 2013 and second intermediate herd this year. Through the years the herd has won numerous butterfat awards in Staffordshire and last year won the Staffordshire Agricultural Society Young Stock and Grassland award. The herd went one better this year to win the Agricultural Society’s small herds competition. Paul admits he doesn’t get the enjoyment out of showing to put the necessary hours in, but last summer he showed at Nantwich and Newport picking up third prizes with Rossett Goldwyn Sweet as a heifer and Whitgreave Goldwyn Rhapsody. He also took a team of calves to the Staffordshire Calf Show where he won reserve champion with Whitgreave Seaver Lillian, first with
Whitgreave Braxton Rapture, a granddaughter of Riverdane Allen Rapture and second with Whitgreave Shottle Queen. Queen went to the All Britain for the Northern Ireland team and finished ninth.
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Showing will continue to form a small part of the herd’s marketing policy, but it is the genetic progression of this herd that really drives Paul and no doubt, the Whitgrave herd will be one that will feature heavily on the radar of the Staffordshire Club and beyond in the future.
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