NETHERTON BULLS SELL TO £10,500 IN STIRLING

Netherton had another successful Stirling Bull Sale this month with our team of bulls averaging £6300. Our top selling bull was the second prize junior bull Netherton Mr Admiral K570 who sold for £10,500 to Threeburnfold Angus, Lauder. Mr Admiral is by Ardossan Admiral A2 who is the outstanding outcross performance sire from Australia and has bred well for us and is out of Netherton Missie D331, one of the top daughters of TLA Northern Samurai and now foundation cow of the Missie line at Rull Angus. Missie D331 was a top donor cow for us and has bred some of our top females over the years. Her dam Netherton Missie Y288, sold for 16,000gns and was the dam of the breed’s record price female Netherton Missie A114 who sold for 30,000gns in 2007. She is also a full sister to DMM Traction, the twice Canadian Show Bull of the year. Missie D331's grand dam is the famous DMM Miss Essence 22B who is also the dam of The Moss Mr Eshton.

Also selling well at Stirling were our two first prize winners both sired by The Moss Mr Eshton who was purchased for 36,000gns, he is a son of the top American bull Vermillion Dateline and out of DMM Miss Essence 22B the twice Canadian female of the year and founder of the famous Missie line at Netherton. He has bred extremely well being the sire of the 2009 Royal Highland Show Champion and the 2010 Winter National Cow Champion. His sons have sold to 13,000gns and his daughters to £25,000. Mr Eshton was male champion as a six year old at the Royal Highland Show in 2010.

First to sell by him was our senior bull Netherton Kingpin K555 who was knocked down at £5460. He is out of Netherton Karama E368, champion at Fife and Doune and Dunblane in 2011 before selling privately for a five-figure price to Saville Angus. Karama was also the 2006 National Calf Show Female champion. Kingpin’s maternal brothers include Netherton Keystone G440, stock bull at St Fort Angus who was champion at Braco and Grantown Shows in 2009 and reserve champion at Perth Show and Netherton Kentucky L596, who was the calf champion at Perth Show 2011.

Then our junior bull, Netherton Fusilier K572, who weighed 1110kg at Stirling sold for £5250. He is out of the 10,000gns Netherton Fleur B199 who stood reserve supreme and female champion at the 2008 All Ireland championships and is the dam of Luddenmore Fleur, National Show calf champion in Ireland and Netherton Focus J492, National Show champion 2010 and now stock bull at Colduch Angus, both sired by Mr Eshton. Her dam Netherton Fleur W6 was sold for high undisclosed figure to Barwise in 2001 after winning five breed championships and three interbreed titles in 1999.

Netherton Mr Admiral K570

Embryos exported to Luxemburg

We are pleased to announce the private export sale of 25 embryos to Luxembourg through CONVIS, on behalf of Alain Molitor who runs a purebred Limousin commercial herd producing calves to be finished for the CONVIS beef brand. Due to part of his land now being used extensively, for which he gets special subsidies from the Department of the Environment, he has decided to run Aberdeen-Angus.

Reports from CONVIS say many breeders are already having great success with Aberdeen-Angus cattle in Luxembourg and there are now some 25 Angus herds with herd size ranging from 10 to 150 cows.

CONVIS, which is responsible for the maintenance of cattle herd books, performance registration and genetic evaluation and has its own beef brand, purchased embryos from Netherton to establish a herd with alternative bloodlines and higher performance figures.

Included in the shipment are embryos from some of the breed’s leading females with eight embryos from Netherton Fleur G413 who was Winter National Cow Champion last year and has been sold recently for £25,000 to Saville Angus and is by the Ballmachie and Netherton stock bull Netherton Mr Brazilian E377 and seven embryos from Netherton Annie H474, the top performance cow in the Netherton herd by the Genus bull Netherton Rader J527.

The remainder are sired by the Canadian bull HF El Tigre 28U and are out of Netherton Rachel G449, a top daughter of The Moss Mr Eshton D409 and Netherton Beauty J533, a maternal sister to Netherton Big Edition H460.

These embryos have been selected to produce easy calving progeny that will mature into easy fleshed and good maternal cattle capable of suiting their new environment in Luxemburg. We are pleased to be working with CONVIS with this project and look forward to seeing how the progeny perform.

Netherton Fleur G413

Netherton Annie H474