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Richaven Sid Squaw 3 classified maximum points at VG89 as a two year old, she is a daughter of Richaven Raider Squaw.
convinced was something really special.
How true this turned out to be when the next year he registered her first two ET heifer calves as the foundation of the Richaven herd. These two subsequently classified EX93 and EX91 and set a standard that has become synonymous with the name Richaven. Today’s herd of 70 milkers consists of 29 cows either directly decending from Severnvales Chief Squaw or sired by her extraordinary red factor Starbuck son, Richaven Squawbuck EX96, used both naturally and by AI since 2002. His three quarter sister Richaven Raider Squaw, is the herd’s most profitable matron with more than £42,000 worth of progeny and embryo sales in 2013 and 2014.
Calved for the eighth time in March, Raider Squaw is comfortably over 90 tonnes of milk and her seven lactations have a 305-day average of 11,100kg at 4.46%bf including a top yield of 13,337kg at 4.9%bf, 1063kg CFP and 121 Production Index. Following in the footsteps of her 21 star brood cow dam, Raider Squaw has an EX93-2E fourth calved Goldwyn and three ET Sid daughters scored VG87, VG88 and VG89, respectively, as two year olds. Strikingly
Richaven Goldwyn Squaw 6 VG89 stood grand and interbreed champion at UK Dairy Expo 2015.
Richaven Goldwyn Squaw 2 EX93-2E is pictured very fresh in her fourth lactation and is a daughter of Richaven Mattador Squaw. She already has four daughters sold to other herds throughout the UK.
similar to her illustrious dam, the Goldwyn and Raider were convincing winners of the 2011 All-Britain Dam and Daughter award.
The Squaw family reached the UK due to the efforts of a young Scotsman, Jimmy Irving, of the Stubbyknowe Ayrshire and Holstein herd at Gretna. Jimmy was herdsman at James Walker’s noted Walkerbrae herd in 1982. Returning the following year for the Walkerbrae reduction sale, Jimmy was determined to buy some of the heifer calves born during his watch.
He was first successful bidder on three lots, Pammy, Delight and Squaw, all born in September 1982. The latter was a bargain of $3500 CAN.
James Walker was already well known as an astute buyer and breeder of both high quality Holsteins and Jerseys. Also, highly respected in the Percheron horse world for many years, the Walkerbrae prefix was advertised using the “We sell the best and show the rest” slogan.
On his travels, James selected an EX cow, Vetamere Proud Debra, in a New York dispersal and she was in-calf to the noted AI sire Chapel Bank Apache. His daughters were typically powerful, speckled in colour and distinctly white headed, making them easy to spot. Born at Walkerbrae, the family took on the new name Squaw from the Apache connection and Proud Debra
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