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Boltonmanor Damion Sadie 3 pictured one week before calving is now classifi ed VG88.
This year cows have been turned out to graze once they are confi rmed in-calf to keep costs down.
seventh at the All Breeds All Britain, she is also the first milker the Stable family showed at AgriScot.
Damion Sadie has two daughters, Boltonmanor Lavanguard Sadie 3 who was third at the All Breeds All Britain 2014 and her Doorman sister stood second at the Great Yorkshire Show 2015. There are also pregnancies due in October by Atwood.
In July Lavanguard Sadie 3 calved a Doorman heifer calf and Tom and Anna are keeping their fingers crossed for the future with these pair. The Ann family traces back to the purchase of a non- pedigree cow by Leadman from Mike’s friend Stephen Wood’s British Friesian herd. After her purchase Mike graded the cow up and named her after Stephen’s wife. This cow classified VG86 and produced 70t lifetime, she only had one daughter by the test bull Cogent Salmon.
Boltonmanor Salmon Ann is still in the herd and has produced 100t in eight lactations. There are now five generations of this family on the farm. Her most notable daughter is a VG87 Shottle that has given more than 50t, she has had seven heifer calves by seven different sires.
The oldest of the seven daughters is an EX93 Talent, then an EX94 Velvet which is the highest scored Velvet daughter in the UK. She then had a Breakout that scored VG85 as a two year old, a VG86 Matson, a GP83 two year old Emulate and young stock by Sammy and Saloon. The Saloon was the 2014 show calf that stood third at the All Britain. Salmon Ann was the first registered Ann, and she has 27 registered female descendants, up until this July every single one of them was on the farm, with none lost for any reason. Breeding is now 100% genomic with the last order the first time no proven sires had been ordered. Mike used to prefer using a limited number of bulls to have a big influence on the herd, however, Tom thinks this is harder to do while using the lower reliability genomic. “We now have sexed Baloo, sexed Fitz and conventional Megawatt in the tank. We have used Mogul and his sons after seeing them in America. I’ve been picking bulls for 10 years now,” says Tom. “Dad ended on a high as the last bull he picked was Shottle who has had a massive influence on the herd, we’ve registered 100 daughters and used 500 straws. My first pick was Talent who got me off
to a great start because he also bred well for us.
“Historically we ordered semen annually, but now we are using genomics we will order twice a year. The bulls are run through Semex’s mating programme to eliminate inbreeding and I set a criteria for bulls with more than +400 PLI and +2.5 type and then select from there.” Through Anna’s encouragement Tom has enjoyed seeing calves compete successfully since 2009. “I went to watch Anna help Paradise Holsteins at the Yorkshire Calf Show, I decided it was something we could do and I went home and started halter training calves. That year we took four to the Lancashire Calf Show, Boltonmanor Empire Celicia won the February class and then stood second at the All Breeds All Britain. It was quite scary for me because it was a long way ahead of anything I’d done before, but it got me hooked – on showing and on Anna.
“Last year was definitely our highlight so far with Anna taking the showmanship championship and both Ann and Sadie standing third at the All Breeds All Britain Calf Show. Both were nominated All Britain with Sadie finishing honourable mention – a massive achievement for us.”
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