Look who I found stumpling around the UK.

[coyote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRrwOYk7ds

 

[trevorgreycattleco]

Don't know those folks but he sure is talking up the shorties!
Cheerio my good man.  Are those Muridale genetics?

 

[coyote]

The wee lad is a fellow Steer Plantier, Scotland. I believe he is a sale rep for the Durhams for Denver. Be sure to look him up in the pens ,he sure has some interesting stories.


trevorgreycattleco , No those are not Muridale genetics, maybe Scotland will come on here and tell us. Scotland has sent many embryos over there with North American genetics.

A few years ago Charles and Rolly were here and took a tour of the cattle and then came in for coffee, Charles looked down into the basement and asked what that was, Rolly informed him "that is what you would call a Dungeon over there".

 

[CAB]

Beautiful buildings. Would love to see to inside of the big barn.

 

[Okotoks]

I was looking at the barns and the bulls so almost didn't realise it was Scotland! Rolly bought one of our Northen Legend 3N heifers for Chales Lowther and they flushed her and sent the embryos over.
Here is the link to her offspring.

http://abri.une.edu.au/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll?1=3E373E3D&2=2435&3=56&5=2B3C2B3C3A&6=275C5C265925202121&8=56&10=3A043B0E0B0B0427130414130A081E0A2E1AE718091B2801E3&11=20

We had visitors from Scotland last summer and one runs a feedlot and supplies Shorthorn beef to some of the top London restaurants every week.

 

[cowz]

Nice! Thanks for sharing ...... those buildings have really stood the test of time...brought back memories of my visit to Scotland and England 2 years ago.

 

[scotland]

thanks for posting my Tony award performance! the genetics of the cattle pictured are an emybro project  that i put together for Lowther .. all one great flush by K-Kim Freedom x BR Joy  cow , double cross of CCS STerling x Strathore Irish Magic.  These woudl clean up all the prizes in the major shows in England ,Wales and  SCtoldan 2009, yearling debut. 2010 the big red bull would win 2 out 3 major championship and sell for 12,000pounds sterling. Just a small portion of the sucess my norhtamerican embyros have done in the EU. The calves from the Diamon Saphire x Winalot Rodney , are very thick and stout..  show tons of promise.
the pair are full sibs k-kim freedom x joy both junior champions at teh Highland, englsih royal m royal welsh, great yorkshireshow.Big performance cattle with hgh carcass traits and muscle.. the bull posted 16.88 ribeye at 12months weight 1390lbs. birth weight 88 lbs.

 

[Okotoks]

thanks for posting my Tony award performance! the genetics of the cattle pictured are an emybro project  that i put together for Lowther .. all one great flush by K-Kim Freedom x BR Joy  cow , double cross of CCS STerling x Strathore Irish Magic.  These woudl clean up all the prizes in the major shows in England ,Wales and  SCtoldan 2009, yearling debut. 2010 the big red bull would win 2 out 3 major championship and sell for 12,000pounds sterling. Just a small portion of the sucess my norhtamerican embyros have done in the EU. The calves from the Diamon Saphire x Winalot Rodney , are very thick and stout..  show tons of promise.
the pair are full sibs k-kim freedom x joy both junior champions at teh Highland, englsih royal m royal welsh, great yorkshireshow.Big performance cattle with hgh carcass traits and muscle.. the bull posted 16.88 ribeye at 12months weight 1390lbs. birth weight 88 lbs.

We had visitors from Scotland this summer that saw those bulls during the World Shorthorn conference and one was so impressed with the Freedom x Joy's he is going to start a Shorthorn herd. He runs about 500 cows now and they breed some for the market show competitions where they have had good success.They sell the calves as steers at 6 months for over 3000 pounds.!They have been using Belgium Blue Shorthorn cross cows and Belgium Blue Simmental cross cows bred to Charolais or Limousin bulls to get the type that win over there. They definitely want some rib eye but also need something that will fatten.They bought some Diamond Dottie 55G embryos. Thanks Scotland for promoting Canadian genetics in the UK!

 

[justintime]

In regards to the old buildings, on my first night in Scotland, my host said that they would put me in the new part of the house as the older part was pretty drafty. The next morning, I asked when the new part was built , to which he replied " around 1840. I then asked when the older part was built and he said he was not exactly sure but somewhere in the late 1400s. I have often wondered how our buildings in North America will look after a few centuries, and I suspect they would be a little more than " a bit drafty".

Britain has been an excellent market for embryos and I have sent about 250 over in the past few years. We are presently putting together another shipment. It is interesting that several of our customers in Scotland have been just starting their herds, and decided to do this via embryos. In our next shipment we will be sending embryos to start another two new herds over there.