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CENTRAL COUNTIES
entral Counties members had a busy autumn with the calf show held in September courtesy of Rugby Marts with Ben Yates judging. Showmanship winners were Holly Robinson, Laura Barrett, Emily Barrett and Rebecca Channing.
While the winning calves were Blydale Miss Doorman, Blydale El Niro Missy, Crystalclear Sammy Pledge, Blydale Quality Lynn and Crystalclear Daryl Elsie. The small team of helpers travelled to Malvern determined to put on a good show and what a show they had. The young members worked well together putting up the stand and looking after the calves.
Members were placed well in their showmanship classes, but the climax was Rebecca Channing winning the senior showmanship and overall championship in her final year
as a young member. Rebecca has worked really hard for her success spending time training and preparing her handling calf and has been an inspiration to all our young members. Well done Rebecca.
In the calf classes we again had several placings with Rebecca leading Blydale Holsteins’ calf Blydale Quality Lynn to win the August class. We all held our breath when it came to the championship to see if Rebecca could do the double. The judge really praised the calf in the championship line up saying how long and correct she was, we were thinking ‘could this happen?’. He walked down to her, but turned and tapped the champion out before naming Blydale Quality Lynn as reserve champion. A fantastic result for Central Counties and Sam Wake and family. Our small, but
his year’s winter meeting was held on 1st December at Manor Farm, Allington, Devizes, by kind permission of Richard Oram and Sons, with 32 members attending.
The farm is owned and run by Richard, his sons James and Nicholas and his nephew Andrew. Allington dairy is a 220-head commercial herd, calving all year round, they herd moved to its present green field site ten months ago. A new umbrella type building
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enthusiastic team were announced as second place in the overall top team award, with Emily and Laura Barrett and Will Ives stepping forward to receive their prize with absolute surprise and joy, but well deserved. Roll on next year. The Club would also like to congratulate Cynthia Hall on being presented with the Holstein Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Cynthia has had a lifetime involved with the Holstein cow through her own Horwood herd which she took over at an early age after the death of her father. She has been involved in judging shows all over the UK and has been one of the main stewards at National Shows. As a lifetime member of Central Counties she has always been available to lend a hand or give advice.
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was erected to house 240 cows in cubicles suspended over a large slurry pit. It has an aeration system so slurry can be tankered out regularly. Milking is via four Lely Astronaut Robots situated at four separate points in the building and the cows are averaging 10,000kgs. The Lely Discovery robot keeps all the cubicle passage ways clean and a Lely Juno is used to push up the silage in the feed areas. A noticeable fact which many
commented on was that the cows were so quiet, obviously happy and contented with the new system.
Besides the dairy operation 1500 acres of cereals are grown. After an interesting visit, members, Mr and Mrs Oram and their herdsman, retired to a local pub, situated on the side of the Kennett and Avon Canal for a festive lunch, after which our hosts were thanked for an enjoyable and informative morning.
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