Dairy Shorthorn Newsletter December 2017 v2

Wainwright Wanderings

Membership Fee 2018 Please be reminded that your membership fee will be due in January 2018. You can pay by Bacs using the details on your invoice, once received in January, or by cheque detailing your membership number on the back or call Claire at the office to pay by card. If you pay by standing order this fee will be collected in the usual way from your bank.

AGM & Judging Day A huge thank you to the Collins family for hosting last years AGM & Judging day, the event was a big success. For 2018 the AGM and Judging day will be hosted

by R Kite, Coton Hall Farm, Milwich, Stafford, ST18 0ET Saturday 9th June 2018. More details will follow in the spring newsletter but please make a note of the date in your diary.

Photographic Competition results The results will be in the forthcoming Shorthorn journal and available on the website from early January.

Photo Gallery During 2018 we plan to create a photo gallery on the website of photos from shows during the year.

The Shorthorn Society

2018 If you are interested in taking part in the Wanderings please call David Wainwright before the end of January, David will be able to answer any questions you may have.

Mobile 07968 757 956. More details regarding the trip will be available shortly via the website.

Invoices We hope that you have seen an

DECEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER Presidents Dinner Tuesday 13th March 2018 @ 7.00pm for 7.30pm at the Crooklands Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria, LA7 7NW Tel: 015395 67432.

For meal only is price is £24.50 inc VAT per person .

For dinner, bed & breakfast (single occupancy) £100.00 inc VAT (Double occupancy) £150.00 inc VAT. Please call or email Claire at the office to reserve a meal/room. Please book ASAP as rooms are limited. You will need to pay on departure with the hotel. The after dinner speaker will be Heather Wildman, who is well respected in the dairy industry and is also the 1st female Chair of the Semex Conference. Heather will be talking about life in the dairy industry.

The Directors Meetings will also be held at Crooklands Hotel: Tuesday 13th March 2018: Lunch @ 12.30, Shorthorn Sires UK Directors meetings at 1.00pm followed by SSUK AGM. Finance & Administration at 3pm.

Wednesday 14th March 2018: Judges Committee meeting at 9.00am followed by Council meeting at 10.00. Lunch, then departure.

improvement in our invoices issued. All invoices should now detail the item being invoiced. They are now being issued monthly along with any registrations certificates. We hope in the future to be able to email invoices so ask that you keep us up to date with your email address.

Please email claire@shorthorn.co.uk with any Presidents Dinner, Cumbria: Tuesday 13th March 2018 changes or to add your email to your membership details.

Borderway UKDairy Expo @ Carlisle: Saturday 10th March 2018

Events 2018

Young Members Weekend As you will see in the forthcoming Journal the Young Members Weekend was a great success. To help support this event our Council members would like to ask our Shorthorn members if they could donate £5 towards the event in the hope to repeat the weekend again in 2018. If you wish to donate please contact Claire at the office. Any donations would be greatly appreciated.

Old Coates Herd Book/ catalogue Vol 89-105 (1942-1958) please

contact Andy Carpenter andy_carpenter@btinternet.com Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2LG Catalogue of Bonwycks Herd 1959, please call T: 02476 696549 E: claire@shorthorn.co.uk the office.

4th Street, Stoneleigh Park,

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Surrey County Show: Monday 28th May 2018 Summer Show & Sale at Beeston Cattle Market: Friday 30th June 2018 AGM & Judging Day: Saturday 9th June 2018 @ R Kites.

Royal Cheshire Show (National Show): Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st June 2018 Royal Highland Show: Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th June 2018 Great Yorkshire Show: Tuesday 10th to Thursday 12th July 2018 Royal Welsh Show: Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th July 2018 Bakewell Show: No show for 2018 UK Dairy Day @ Telford: Wednesday 12th September 2018 The Dairy Show @ Bath and West Show Ground: Wednesday 3rd October 2018 All Breeds All Britain Calf Show @ East of England Arena, Peterborough, Friday 19th to Sunday 21st October 2018 Autumn Show & Sale @ Beeston Cattle Market: Friday 27th October 2018 **SHOWING UNIFORM: PLEASE NOTE JEANS MUST NOT BE WORN**

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Herd Book rule changes SSUK 2017 has been a busy year for Please can we ask that you read the article in the forthcoming journal about the changes to some of the registrations entering the herd book. Please continue to submit your registrations to the office in the normal way or via the online database and they will be dealt with accordingly.

Registrations Please remember that we can also accept registrations when one parent is a Beef Sire or Dam into the Dairy Coates Shorthorn Herd Book.

Shorthorn Sires UK and sales have been good with the extra help from our new Field officer Graham Bell. Please see our SSUK £5 per straw flyer displaying the latest bulls on offer. SSUK are proud to offer the number one PLI ranked bull Nejay Amazon, with a PLI of £272. This really good all round bull can help breed very profitable daughters with a fine example being Strickley Starbud 48th VG89.

Pure Bred Shorthorn Association are looking for any Pure Bred Shorthorn Semen Dairy and Northern Dairy. Please contact Julia French on 01630620495 or David Winnington on 07854 027072

TO ALL, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Gold Cup and how to enter These Competitions were inaugurated in 1926, largely through the efforts of the President of the Dairy Shorthorn Association for that year, the late Mr JL Shirley: the necessary funds being subscribed by a number of firms and individuals in response to a personal appeal by Mr Shirley who was himself a generous contributor. The Council, therefore, directed that the trophies should be known as the “1926” Gold Challenge Cups. The Gold Cup is awarded annually to the Overall Winner of the Competition. So do you have any cows which meet the criteria for entry into the Annual Gold Cup Competition? To qualify a Cow must have:

Genomic Testing Testing of young bulls is going well however we also need to encourage that you test your Stock Bulls too. Results from the stock bull are needed to help create data from which the young bulls results are compared. The test is the same as the young bulls and carried out in the same way by sending in hair samples in the Genomic Hair bags. These bags can be obtained from Claire at the office.

Payment for the test is £25.20 or €24.

*New Bull* Oxton Winfall EX91 is 100% pure from the Winsonia family. He is sired by Wilderness out of a Masterman dam that has already bred a EX91 and VG88 daughters. Photo of Oxton Winfall.

If any members have a bull they think may meet the criteria for SSUK to consider please send the information into Claire or to one of the SSUK directors so we can look into them with more detail.

For more information on these and other SSUK bulls please contact Claire at the office for a SSUK brochure or contact Graham Bell our field officer for advise on 07828 483995.

The highest type bull available is Hooton Fair Reflection with 51 daughters classified, he is good for 1.6 type merit with 2.0 score for udder and also has impressive health trait figures.

DaughterBrookside Wild Honey 3 in her 3rd lactation.

- produced an average of 6000 kg milk with a minimum total of 7% Fat and Protein combined average.

- with a minimum average of 3.2% Protein over 3 lactations.

- had 4 calving's, 3 of which are complete lactations (305 days or less) and must be within a period of 3 years and 4 calendar months, as printed on Cow Lactation Certificates from NMR or other Official Milk Recording Company.

- the date of the last calf born must be in the year of the Gold Cup being held. The competition runs one year behind so for 2018 the last calf must be born before 31 st December 2017. Any entries where the calf is born after this date will be submitted for the next Competition if they meet the above criteria.

- the closure date for entry is the end of May each year and the Winners are announced at the National Royal Cheshire Show in June. If the animal meets the criteria they will receive a Diploma Certificate and Star on their pedigree. The Star Brood Cows list is displayed in the journal each year. If you wish to enter please complete the Gold Cup Diploma Entry Form which can be downloaded from the website or call the office and return it accompanied by the milking lactation records and a cheque for £5 & VAT (£6) for each animal.

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