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Cubicles for the milking herd are deep sand beds with eight inches of sand.


of mats in the original 100 cow shed,” he adds.


Current sires in the tank are Silver, Penley, Supershot and sexed Fantasmic with calves being born by Bombero, MVP, Pure, Flame and still a few Shottles coming through. Mark admits he has used plenty of Shottle having registered about 130. “He has put a good base in the herd. His daughters are consistent and are always my preferred heifers calving in. Although, I do have some nice heifers by Cervi Maxi-Goat and Dorcy, the Dorcy daughters are, milky heifers, with most giving more than 40kg a day.” Mark selects bulls on weights of butterfat and protein, with a positive chest width and a slight set to the leg, although he admits that was a fault of Shottle. “I prefer bulls that don’t have too much stature and


have low cell counts and good fertility. Gerard has been a bull that ticked all the boxes in the past and as a result we are milking almost 40.


“I’ve used some polled bulls in the past, True-Grit and Blueprint and also our stock bull Portway Shandy, a Man-O-Shan


son going back to Wesswood- HC Rudy Missy. Shandy should have gone to stud, but unfortunately TB prevented that.”


Milking cows are now housed on eight inch deep sand beds and are run as three groups: lows, highs and fresh calvers.


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