LEFT Cattle in front of Terling
Place at the turn of the Twentieth
Century, before the foundation of
the Herd Book.
BELOW As President of the British
Friesian Cattle Society, Gerald
Strutt (left) collects the
Bledisloe Challenge Trophy from
Lord Baresbury at the 1933
London Dairy Show.
LEFT In 2009, the
Terling herd is milked
through a 30:30 rapid exit parlour.
BELOW The Terling (Westocks) herd won the Silcock Cup,
the National Herd Competition, in 1934/35 with a herd
average of 1597 gallons (7260 litres).
As for the cows, the herd impressively
contains 16 families that were entered
into the Herd Book in the fi rst two
the uniformity Phil is after, a
volumes: Annie, Baby, Beechnut, Breeze, Cactus, Contented, Eclipse, Floss
small number of sires are used
Hall, Grey, Mistress Morn, Norah, Present, Profi t, Torch, Total Eclipse and
each year plus British Blue sires
Winter. Of these, the Breeze family has been the most numerous, recently
producing Terling Breeze 1328, a Baxter heifer born in February. The herd
on the lower end. Currently in
includes four EX, 73 VG and 200 GP animals, and the promise shown by the
use are Ladys-Manor Augusta,
youngest portion will certainly show itself in the next few years.
Emerald-Acr-SA T-Baxter, Nor-
This potted history cannot emphasise how much infl uence Terling cattle
Bert Calypso, Far-O-La Devoted
had on the breed in the UK, there isn’t space, but it can leave you, the
and Lady’s Manor Wildman, with
reader, with an impression that the herd is ready to emerge from its self-
sexed Gillette Capital for heifers. imposed exile. Phil is keen for the herd to start selling heifers again, and
Heifers currently in milk include with its impressive production, solid type, famous pedigrees and low
daughters by Smarty, Lucky Mike,
disease status, there is sure to be a ready market. Terling may have been
Axiom and Jackson.
quiet for a while, but be prepared to hear more of it again in the future.
FARM FACTS
490-500 milking cows and 350 youngstock
Part of the 3,250 hectare estate of Lord Rayleigh’s Farms Ltd.
Herd average is 10,507 kg at 3.84% F & 3.26% P 3x CC 160
Cows are kept in fi ve groups and housed all year round
TMR includes maize, grass and wholecrop silages, crimped maize,
soya and rape meals and Bergafat F100
4000 tonnes of maize silage made along with 2500 tonnes of
grass and 1500 tonnes of wholecrop
Sires in use include Augusta, Baxter, Calypso, Wildman, Devoted
and Lucky Mike
Cow families include 16 from Volumes 1 and 2 of the Herd Book,
with the Breeze family now up to 1328 heifers registered
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