BREEDERS ACHIEVEMENTS
Kingtonmagna Peach 33 EX 92-5E SP LP100 Bred and owned by A G Hinks & Sons
The oldest cow in our herd reached the landmark 100 tonnes mark earlier this year, the first cow to do so under the Kingtonmagna prefix. Sadly, just a week short of her eighteenth birthday, she joined that great herd in the sky. Born in August 1993 by A Ronnybrook Prelude out of Kingtonmagna Peach 23 4* LP70 SP EC60, she gave 101,855 kg of milk in her lifetime at an amazing 5.5% butter fat and 3.69% protein. From her 10 lactations she produced four heifer calves, two of which are in the milking herd at present. Sadly we lost her fourth heifer and last calf, a Holmland Ferrari born last August. When first classified as a heifer in 1996, Peach 33 was made VG85 and from then on she was put up as EX five times reaching EX92-5E in February this year. Of her progeny, fourth calver Kingtonmagna Master Peach 47 VG86 has produced three heifers – a very smart VG85 Far O La Debbie Jo Drake now milking and two younger heifers by Regancrest Drham Mr
Barmick Consequence 8 EX91-3E LP100 2*
Bred and owned by M P & B J Hollins & Son Barmick Consequence 8 EX90 has now officially given 120,657 kg in 11 lactations and is due to calve again in April 2011 to Schilldale Outbound. She has produced five daughters and her offspring seem to be following her example by gaining high scoring classifications, including Comestar Lheros daughter Consequence 20 at EX90. Her most recent calf, Consequence 30, by Magor Bolivia Allen was born in January 2010 and we have high hopes for her in the future!
Always a consistent milk producer, Consequence 8 recorded at her peak during her seventh lactation reaching 12,600 kg in 305 days at 3.40% fat and 2.85% protein. She has achieved a two star blood cow status on natural daughters and has never been flushed. Her classification score has risen over the years as follows:
August 1999
September 2001 July 2002 June 2005 May 2008
March 2009 July 2010
G75
VG85 VG87 VG89 EX91 EX91 EX91
Consequence 8 still runs with the rest of the herd and receives no special treatment. She has always been a healthy cow, never had any foot problems and is always easy to get straight back into calf.
Mick Hollins Garwood Princess Diana EX92-3E LP110
Bred and owned by G R & M Garth & Son Garwood Princess Diana EX92-3E was sired by Startmore Rudolph. Her dam was Beldare Princess Varton VG88, born in May 1993 and bred by the Bell family at Balderstone, Ontario. She came to the UK in mid 1994. Our Princess Diana should have been called Garwood Rudolph Diana but she was born on 31 August 1997, the day Princess Diana died, so as she was a Princess anyway we named her after the Princess of Wales. She is 13 years old now and has given 118,080 kg so far in 10 lactations. Her best 305-day yield was her fourth, when she gave 14,143 kg at 4.29% fat and 2.88% protein with a Cell Count of 62 and a Production Index of 131. She has bred daughters by Figaro, Principal (scored VG), Lucente and two by Overside Dictator. Diana’s character is to keep herself to herself, quietly getting on with what she wants without being a bother to anyone. She is older now and I enclose a picture of her taken three days before she calved for the eleventh time – a bull by Samuelo. Both are well! Margery Garth
6 THE JOURNAL DECEMBER 2010
Sam and Holmland Ferrari. Third calver K. Master Peach GP82 produced just one heifer, classified VG85, by Tugolo. Peach 33’s third was a heifer by our then stock bull Coxhill Black Knight classified GP83 this summer who has produced a heifer by Tregibby Starbright (a grandson of Dalesend Storm Maude). Peach was aptly named – a real peach of a
cow. Never sick nor sorry – her feet only trimmed routinely, her cell count never higher than 195 in all 10 lactations and only once in memory having to have an antibiotic tube, when she fell down in the yard and bruised her udder. Typically she bounced back and was a real favourite with all of us. Caroline Hinks
The Marion’s are on the march at Thistlebrook
The Thistlebrook herd of David Murrell at Wingrave, Aylesbury has its first 100 tonner in a daughter of influential Dutch sire Skalsumer Sunny Boy. The 12-year-old Thistlebrook Sunny Marion, although registered as an SRB, is a grand daughter of a cow from the Kimster herd while her dam is a 9181 kg 305d 4% F 3.3% P daughter of N-Silverbrook Marion Supreme, one of the MMB’s earliest American semen imports. Sunny Marion reached 102,735 kg at 3.6% fat and 3.2% protein (6812 kg CFP) in eight lactations with a top of 13,471 kg in 305 days at 3.3% fat and 3.0% protein (844 kg CFP). David reports that his favourite daughter so far is her in-milk heifer by MOET Nansen that has given 9829 kg in 302 days at 4.25% fat and 3.26% protein, and is still giving 31 kg on twice a day milking. Her three older maternal sisters have averages 12,312 kg in 305 days at 3.6% fat (827 kg CFP) in their last lactations and are by Lucky Strike, Meadowlord and Grosvenor the latter having a final yield of 14,492 kg in 305 days at 3.3% fat (919 kg CFP). Richard Beard
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