FAR LEFT Hun-
day Princess 112,
shown by John
Moffi tt, was Great
Yorkshire Show
Champion in 1976.
LEFT Hunday
Princess 125 and
her ET offspring by
MMB Linmack.
daughter, Princess ABOVE LEFT Hunday
53 in 1965, and in Princess 392, by Avondale Francy
1966 a daughter Marquis, scored EX93-2E.
by Hunday Falcon
5. She also bred
ABOVE RIGHT Hunday Princess 9
four Hunday herd
was one of two full sisters from
bulls during the
Hunday Princess.
1960s and exuded
LEFT Hunday Asner Princess 594
longevity, breeding
GP84-2yr is one of the latest
over a 15 year
family members.
period with her son
MAIN PICTURE BELOW The
Hunday President
Hunday herd today.
born in 1968.
During the 1960s
and 70s there were
lots of Princesses
in the herd, sired
after her ninth calving.
by bulls such
The 1970s also saw a couple of
as Salwick Nick
successful show cows from the family, namely Princess 125 and Princess 114.
and a number of Hunday sires
Princess 125 was a H1 scored heifer who gave over 16,000 lbs (7300 kg) in her
including Hunday Performer and
fi rst lactation, while she was fi rst at the Great Yorkshire Show that year and
Hunday Creation. Many of these
second at the Dairy Event. The following year, this Terling Bonus daughter was
recorded more than 10 lactations
fi rst at Ayr, second at Newark and won again at the Great Yorkshire Show.
and were tremendously milky
She was one of the fi rst animals to be fl ushed at Hunday, breeding nine ET
individuals, such as the Salwick
progeny by MMB Linmack, seven heifers (3 VG, 2 GP) and two sons, as well
Nick daughter Hunday Princess
as four natural daughters. Another Princess, 112, was also part of the show
39 RM RML VG, a twin, who
team in the mid 1970s. This VG cow won fi ve fi rst prizes in 1975-76, including
gave 14,698 lbs in her seventh
winning the very large young cow class at the North West Dairy Show in 1975.
lactation at 4.53% fat in 305
She was also Great Yorkshire Show Champion in 1976.
days. The second generation EX
Hunday Princess 114 was purchased by John Silver in the 1974 Hunday sale,
Hunday Princess 34 EX, the only
and was successfully shown during 1975. She became a VG cow, and bred four
daughter of Hunday 9, also had
daughters at Beechbarn, including two EX by Barold Rockbuster and Saham
nine lactations, with her best Myra Gadget, and she also completed ten lactations. Over the next 20 years,
being a 15,707 lbs record in 1974 the Beechbarn herd bred over 30 Princess daughters.
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