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Dunsyre; 1500 registered Shorthorns later The bloodlines that established the Loch Awe herd of Beef Shorthorns and then subsequently the Dunsyre herd were varied.
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he Coombs family had started off in Shorthorns while living on a smallholding near Hawick, and Gerorge Dent’s famous Winbrook herd provided them with half a dozen multi-sucklers. These Northern Dairy Shorthorns were moderate-sized sweet-natured dual-purpose cattle that would go on to establish a number of families within the herd. When they moved to the shores of Loch Awe, Argyll, Carey and Hilary went to Perth and bought
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their first Beef Shorthorn bull. Uppermill Fleet was a Mandalong Super Elephant son and was acquired from Mary Durno for the princely sum of 1000gns. He joined the Northern Dairy Shorthorns, a few stubborn Galloways and a rather underwhelming red Shorthorn heifer that they had somehow taken a shine to at a commercial calf sale in Longtown.
