PRINCESS FAMILY
to register, the animal had lost
her pedigree status.” From there
the family has grown, with each
decade generating its own stars,
REIGNS AT HUNDAY
and now there have been over
600 descendants registered,
the latest being Princess 608, a
daughter of Wedgwood Laramie
born in January of this year.
This issue we continue our focus on indigenous
There have been nine EX and 38
VGs over that time.
cow families that can be traced back through
Two of the best cows in the
1950s at Hunday were full
the breed’s history, featuring the Princesses at
sisters by Hunday Adema 88
from Hunday Princess herself.
Hunday, numerically the herd’s largest family.
Hunday Princess 9 RM EX was
born in November 1952, with
Sarah Liddle reports this white cow having only one
daughter registered by Salwick
W
hilst not the oldest family at Hunday (the Baby, Bertha and Doroma
Nick, in 1962, suggesting she
families trace back to Volume 1 of the Herd Book), the Princess family
was productive for over 10 years.
arrived at Peepy Farm before them all, with Hunday Princess registered in
In contrast Princess 12 RM EX,
1944. The late John Moffi tt’s book, ‘60 years of Farming’, provides a great
born a year later, was the black
start to the history of the family, with the Princess family being the fi rst to cow of the pair and had more
feature in his chapter on indigenous families. He goes on to say, “Father infl uence on the herd. She had
bought a supplementary registered animal, Bowhouse Stirkie 2 BSR, in about three daughters; a Hunday Equal
1930. I was told that the family had been pure pedigree but due to the failure daughter in 1956, a Salwick Nick
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