ABOVE LEFT Ben, William and Peter Howie with father Michael.
ABOVE RIGHT The Morwick ice cream brand is faced by Morwick Sand Queen EX96-2E, who won the Royal Highland and the Royal in 2002.
LEFT Inside the on-farm ice cream parlour at Morwick, which shows the herd’s show winning accolades.
registered over 30 Molli’s, with the most famous being Morwick Ranger Molli Red 2 who was sold to Andrew Bailey. She went on to score EX95-4E, the highest scoring Red and White in the UK, and she bred three EX sons including the bulls Red Rock and Matrix.
Sandy Red. One of the herd’s current stars is in fact a daughter of one of the original embryos; Morwick Jordan Sandy Red EX91. Out of Morwick Ranger Sandy VG88, she has a second lactation of 9959 kg at 4.12% fat and 3.28% protein. Her dam completed eight lactations, not only producing the EX91 Jordan Sandy by Ja-Bob
Jordan Red but another EX and four VG daughters. Jordan Sandy has already bred a VG85-2yr Rustler Red daughter, with others by Retinue and Talent in the pipeline. Her two sons by Classic have been sold privately while her Red Devil son is currently running with heifers at Morwick. In 1995 the Molli family was started, with the Blackstar daughter Globelite Mollistar VG87 bought as a yearling by Michael, John and Willie Whiteford and Philip Oliver. It was a family that has developed for all three owners and in only 10 years, Morwick have
Many of the Molli’s now at Morwick have at least eight generations of VG or EX behind them.
Other families that have done well include the Marshawn and Mitzy families, which trace to the same family developed by Scott Wilson near Port Perry in Ontario, Canada, who runs the Emlane and West Port herds and will be well known to many UK breeders. Emlane T Threat Marge Red is the common descendant of both the Mitzy and Marshawn families at Morwick, from which Michael has now sold bulls as far as Penzance. The Canadian families were complimented by a couple of German families, the Elena’s and the Lady’s, and the just-fresh second calver Morwick Kite Elena Red is a good example of the kind of young cow they are breeding at Morwick. A VG86-2yr heifer registered in the Ayrshire herdbook, and first placed Heifer in Milk at the 2010 Northumberland County Show (any other dairy breed class), she has just had a Picolo heifer and although her dam is not scored there are five generations VG or
OPPOSITE LEFT Jerseys have been the latest breed introduced to Morwick.
RIGHT Morwick Sand Queen Red 2 EX91-2E is now a fifth calver and has an EX third calf Talent daughter.
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