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We are about cows, after all….
….and we don’t want to get too far off subject. Here’s an English Devon cow on baby-sitting assignment in Cornwall. She’s from the Kew herd, of course, and our favorite Cornwall lass, Juliet Cleave.
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On the trail of the “Highwayman”….
….a bit more information on the 1960s British champion, Uggaton Highway 2nd. Our Cornwall lass, Juliet Cleave, came up with the picture and wondered who he was. Wooz added some detail from the old herd books (including the fact that he’s an ancestor of one of the bulls calves we now have on the ground here). In case you missed her comment yesterday, I’ve pulled up the latest information from Juliet: Have just spoken to William Brent (of the now dispersed Clampit Herd): his family bought Uggaton Highwayman 2nd as an 18 month bull at the Devon Society annual sale & worked him “as much as we could” within the…
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Devon, we hardly knew ye….
…our Cornwell correspondent, Juliet Cleave, came up with this picture of an award-winning bull…the way Devon used to be…before the English (and the Americans) “improved” the breed. And it wasn’t that long ago: 1963! We’ve asked Juliet for more information. For now, we only know his name was “Uggaton Highwayman 2nd”.
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Addendum…..
….or should that be addenda? Addendae? Anyway, here’s more on managing heifers growing out of our Roundtable below. Both Bill Roberts and Juliet Cleave have posted comments along the way the past several days but I thought these two were worthy of special attention so I brought them up here. If you haven’t seen Juliet’s video, I hope you’ll do so now. Turn up the sound. http://youtu.be/S_kKoeRcmwM First, to re-introduce Juliet. She’s one of our partners in the Traditional Devon project in England. A native of Cornwall, living and raising Devon on land her family has farmed for well over 100 years. She has a spectacular herd and it was…