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Sired
by the outstanding Rawburn Elysium, Bentley boasted one of the
most impressive set of ebv's in the catalogue. He ranks in the
top 1% for 400 day weight, 600 day weight, Scrotal, Eye Muscle
Area, Fat and Terminal Index and also in the top 5% for 200 day
weight, Milk, Retail Beef Yield and Self Replacing Index.
Bentley's
dam is no less impressive having already produced Galawater
Bentley C535 who was retained (middle picture), 2 outstanding
stock heifers and our 2nd highest selling female, the 6,000 gns
Galawater Bonita (pictured).
Thanks
also go to Ranald Pottinger, Isauld Angus, Caithness for his purchase of
Thirdly
and at a great price of 7,500 gns we sold
We
are delighted to announce the joint purchase of
Congratulations
also go to the Leslie family of the Scholland Herd for their
Junior Female Championship with the Rawburn Echester daughter
Scholland Diana. Her correctness, character and beautiful flesh
made her a clear winner in the junior female classes. Well done
for putting in the huge effort to travel from Shetland down to Thainstone.
November
saw us turn our hand to showing calves for the first time at The
National Calf Show, held at The Scottish Winter Fair. We entered
3 heifer calves in the baby class in which we stood first with
During
a recent trip to Canada for the World Angus Forum and following
a visit to the famous Hamilton Farms Ranch, Galawater Angus in
partnership with the McLarens of Netherton have secured the
semen rights of the top yearling bull
Early
this year we came across Lakewood Prince Maverick and
immediately came to the conclusion he was a bull we had to have
an interest in. He is without doubt the meatiest and most
structurally correct Angus bull we have seen. Purchased from
Lakewood by Rawburn he proceeded to be the all time high
scanning bull in the Rawburn program. His performance between
250 and 400 days was staggering and seemed to grow before our
eyes. This performance and scanning saw his Terminal Index
rocket to 47 in the Summer BLUP run.
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Bull
sold to the Galcantray Herd
Many thanks to Messrs Walker of the Galcantray herd for the purchase of one of our top young bulls, Galawater Prince Charming F103. Out of another of our Donor Cows, Galawater Princess A200, Prince Charming was a standout from the day he was born. A typical Chester son he has great power, correctness and a beautiful head. He posted an astonishing Eye Muscle Area and was just short of 700kg at 400 days..
Bull
exported to Greenmount College, NI
After a series of delays due to the Foot and Mouth restrictions, the Yearling bull, Galawater Popeye F100 has been exported to the Greenmount College farm in Northern Ireland. He is a very thick son of Galawater Excalibur B381 and out of our Donor Dam, Galawater Poppy C529. He combines great calving ease figures with a fantastic Milk ebv of 18 and a very respectable Terminal Index of 19.
Young
Bull becomes trait leader
Out of the same dam as our herd sire Galawater Excalibur B381, this young bull, Galawater Edition F112 was the top performer of his year in every way. A son of Rawburn Echester D297, he posted a 400 day weight of 748 kg and a phenomenal rib-eye of 114 at 372 days!! This measurement earned him an eye muscle area ebv of +4.1, the joint top in the whole breed born in 2006 and one of the highest of all time. He also recorded the highest marbling score in our herd this year.
Galawater Angus purchases new Herd Sires
This spring has seen the addition of two young herd sires that we consider to be amongst the best in the breed.
Rawburn
Elysium F547 (pictured here at 15 months old) is possibly a
unique combination of power, growth, length, muscle and style.
He is the product of a mating of the very heavily muscled
Rawburn Lord Ross C216 and the number three cow in the
breed for Angus Terminal Index, and one of the outstanding cows
in the Rawburn herd, Rawburn Evening Star B167. This cow is a
daughter of the breed legend, SAF 598 Bando 5175, a bull who is
the cornerstone of many of the performance herds in North
America, having no equal for growth, scrotal and maternal
traits.
Elysium himself was the second top performing bull in the 2006 calf crop in the Rawburn Herd where he posted an adjusted 400 day weight of 817 kg with an eye muscle depth of 91mm and a fat depth of only 6.9 mm. He stands amongst the very top performers in the breed, ranking in the top 1% and in the top 5 bulls in the breed for 200, 400 and 600 day weights along with top 1% rankings for eye muscle area, fat depth and terminal index. He also ranks in the top 2% for milk. Elysium is extraordinarily long with a fantastic loin, shoulder and depth of thigh.
Summerhill
Beethoven F311 (pictured here at 17 months old) has been
purchased from Angela Robertson, Nightingale Farm, Bishampton.
He is another long, powerful, deep bull with a great head and
hip structure. Beethoven has the rare combination of fantastic
growth figures with a terminal index in the top 1%, 200,400 and
600 day weight rankings all well within the top 5% and very good
calving figures (top 20% for calving ease and top 3% for
gestation length). He also ranks in the top 15% for milk. He is
in fact one of only two bulls born in 2006 to offer such a
combination. We feel he is one of the few bulls we have seen
that we can happily use on heifers without sacrificing power or
performance.
Beethoven is sired by the Canadian bull, Young Dale Dudley 26M who was a Reserve Grand Champion at Regina Bull Sale and is also sire of Nightingale Defiance E264 who was retained at Nightingale for two seasons and now stands at Blelack. His dam is a HF Data Bank daughter whose pedigree also contains such greats as Hogan, Rito 2100 and Stockman 365. He is heavily line-bred to the Young Dale Grace family which has already produced such great sires as Young Dale Hogan 3Y and Young Dale Monarch 12E.
2007
Calves
This spring has seen the production of what we consider to be our best calf crop yet, including Galawater Billy the Kid G256 (pictured here at 2 months) perhaps the widest and heaviest muscled calf born at Galawater Angus to date. This calf is by Rawburn Echester D297 and out of the Ankonian Elixir 100 daughter who has already produced Galawater Bold Knight, exported to Switzerland in 2006. Chester is proving himself to be one of the most consistent breeders around with his calves and yearlings being admired by everyone who has seen them. Excalibur has produced another super crop of calves which look like they will be just as easily sold as those before them. Our embryo calves this year are mainly heifers and should add much to our programme. Our embryo programme has also produced a couple of very interesting bull calves.
Bull sold to Cubbyhill Herd
Many thanks go to John Byers, of the renowned Cubbyhill Herd, for the selection of Galawater Battle Kry E980 as his new stock bull. Battle Kry is a very correct and fleshy son of our much admired, homebred stock bull Galawater Excalibur B381.His dam, Barbara Kim of Auchterforfar has proven to be one of our most successful and consistent foundation cows, with all her daughters having been retained in the herd. Her sons and grandsons have been easily sold, at up to 15,000gns and include her grandson, Galawater Bold King E925, our 2007 Supreme Champion at Perth bull sale and the bull that we exported to Switzerland in 2006. E980 boasts an Eye Muscle Area ranking in the top 5%, balanced with excellent Calving Ease and Birth Weight figures and a Milk value in the top 20%.
Perth
February 2007
The Galawater Herd reached new heights at Perth in February 2007 when we lifted the Junior and Overall Supreme Male Championship at only our second attempt. Our dreams came true when Galawater Bold King E295 was slapped on the rump by judge Ian Anderson. Bold King had been shown only once previously when he was awarded 1st prize in the junior yearling bull class at RHASS 2006. On his return he was run with the pedigree heifers after AI and several pregnancies are confirmed by him.
A very correct, well balanced bull, Bold King ranks in the top 1% for Milk, and well within the top 5% for Terminal Index, Scrotal, 200, 400 and 600 day weights. He boasted a 400day weight of 732 kg. Bold King’s pedigree is as impressive as his performance figures. Sired by the privately purchased Wedderlie Ebony B407, who was in turn sired by the great Tui Blackmark and out of the 8500gns “Horatio” daughter sold at the inaugural on-farm sale at Wedderlie. This cow also produced the herd sire Wedderlie Ebtide, who stands at the famous Hurdcott Herd of Lord and Lady Glendyne.
Bold King’s dam is one of our top young cows having already produced a son at 6000gns whilst only a two year old. She is from the most successful family in our herd to date, the Barbara Kims. Purchased by us from Auchterforfar they trace back to one of the earliest female imports from Canada, Pegleebob Barbara 79E who was the first Angus cow to be used for embryo transfer in the UK. The same family also produced our yearling bull Galawater Bold Knight E924 who was exported to Switzerland in 2006.
Our thanks and best wishes go to Daylesford Organic Farms who purchased Bold King for one of the top prices of the day (15,000gns) and who along with another top purchase at Perth are to head up their exciting new herd in Gloucestershire.
Embryo
Programme
Following on from a very successful calving in 2006, we have again implanted more embryos from some of the top bloodlines in North America. This year’s confirmed pregnancies are;
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Royal Eston Anne 23J by PF 7215 Avenger 0232
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Royal Eston Anne 23J by Riverbend Powerline 0050
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Royal Eston Anne 23J by BJ’S Ricochet 7R
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Cudlobe Elnora 60E by Hoff First Edition 058 242
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Cudlobe Elnora 60E by Da Es Ro Twister 0627
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Prairielane 297E Rosebud 3050 by Hoff First Edition 058 242
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BNB Elba 36A by Ironwood New Level
2006 has also seen us commence our own flushing programme with eggs having been collected from three of our top cows.
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Ermine 2nd of Auchterforfar (Dam of Galawater Excalibur)
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Eulyn of the Moss (Most consistent high performance cow in herd)
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Penguin Blackbird (powerful ET cow by VRD)
For more details on these exciting sires and dams please look in the Herd Sires and Female sections of the web site.
Bull exported to Switzerland
During October we have sold and exported the yearling bull Galawater Bold Knight E924 to a group of three Swiss Angus breeders. Another heavily muscled bull, he is also a son of Jet Eric of Newcairnie and out of a two year old Ankonian Elixir 100 daughter. He descends from the same Barbara Kim family that has produced our 6000gns sale in February 2006 and the first prize yearling bull at RHASS 2006. Bold Knight posted top 1% Ebv’s for Terminal Index at +30 and Milk at +16, and a muscle depth index of +3.1, all balanced with a below average birth weight ranking.
Top
yearling bull sold
Many thanks go to Glendoe Estates, Fort Augustus for their selection of one of our top yearling bulls. Galawater Equity E948 (pictured here at 13 months) headed north to act as the foundation herd bull for their newly formed Aberdeen-Angus herd. Sired by Jet Eric of Newcairnie and out of a two year-old, HF Air-Walk daughter, this heavily muscled young bull boasted a Terminal Index of 28 and a huge Muscle Depth Ebv of +3.2, complemented with a Milk figure of +13.
RHASS
2006
Galawater Angus again exhibited at the “Highland”, showing our senior stock bull, Galawater Excalibur B381 and two of our top yearling bulls. Excalibur was placed 2nd in a very strong senior bull class and was again selected to represent the breed in an Interbreed Team event. We also had success in the junior yearling bull class when our Galawater Bold King E925 was placed first. He is a maternal brother to our 6000gns bull sold in February 2006 and is sired by our stock bull Wedderlie Ebony B407. Bold King will be offered for sale in February 2007.
Exciting
calf crop
May 2006 saw the first calves on the ground by our new stock bull, the Hoff Limited Edition son, Rawburn Echester D297. They look to be all we had hoped for, long, wide, deep and powerful. We also have 9 embryo calves on the ground, which are worth watching. Fingers crossed!!
Perth
February 2006
Our Perth debut proved to be a great success, when our Galawater Bulldozer Kiwi D782 gained a second prize and went onto sell for 6000gns. An AI son of the Netherton stock bull, Ranui W Impact 762 and out of one of our top young cows, Galawater Barbara Kim B413, he sold to head up the newly formed Angus herd of top Beef Shorthorn breeders, Messrs Scott, Fearn Farm, Tain, Rosshire. We wish them every success with their purchase.
2005 NEWS
2005
Border Blacks Sale
Galawater Angus purchase four of the top-selling lots
Galawater Angus recently purchased four of the top-selling lots at the 2005 Border Blacks Sale. They included the 25 month old Blackadder daughter,Wedderlie Eriexada C628, a full sister to the Wedderlie stockbull Eriexad. She was sold with a 6 week old bull calf by Rawburn No Limits 5N at foot. Our other purchase from Wedderlie was also a Blackadder daughter, Wedderlie Pricelba C660, this time in calf to the yearling bull Wedderlie Kentuky.
Rawburn Erica C234, a Transformer daughter in calf to the Hoff Limited Edition son, Rawburn Extra Edition was also added to the herd. Erica C234 comes with Calving Ease, 400 Day Weight and a Terminal Sire Index all in the Top 5% and a Milk value in the Top 1%.
Lastly we purchased Eildon Best Maid C395 as BQ Partnership’s top-selling lot. She is a March 2003 daughter of Moston Muir Transformer, who traces back to Rawburn Transformer and the Rito 2100 daughter, Skaill Delia T2. Best Maid was sold in calf to the Transformer grandson Eastfield Freelance and boasts a 200 Day Ebv in the top 1%, a top 5% 400 Day EBV and a Terminal Sire Index in the top 10%.
Use the links below for further Pedigree Information.
Galawater
Bonzo D701
First son of Wedderlie Ebony B407 sold to top Borders suckler herd.
Galawater Bonzo D701 has been sold to the top Borders suckler herd of Messrs Campbell, Burnhouse Mains, where he is to be used to breed replacement heifers from their renowned herd of commercial Saler cross cows. He is the first son of Wedderlie Ebony B407 to be sold and is out of our Eyrton X20 daughter Galawater Barbara Kim A174. He sold boasting top 5% EBV’s for Birth Weight, Calving Ease Daughters, Milk and Eye Muscle Area, a Scrotal Size EBV in the Top 1% and a Terminal Sire Index in the Top 20%.
Click here for Pedigree Information on Galawater Bonzo D701
Embryo
programme continues
Pregnancies confirmed for calving May 2006.
Our embryo programme continues with pregnancies having been confirmed from several more North American matings. Again we have calves on their way out of Youngdale Tilda by Vermilion Yellowstone. We are also waiting on calves out of our new stock bull’s mother, Cudlobe Ellen Erica by Grandview Womack Direct, more from Coldstearm Tidy Bee 65G by B/R New Frontier and some by Vermilion Dateline out of Coldstream Primrose. Again for more details and pictures please refer to the Herd Sires and Females section.
Royal
Highland Show 2005
Galawater Excalibur B381 wins Reserve Male Champion.
On our show debut, Galawater Angus lifted the Reserve Male Championship with our homebred stockbull, Galawater Excalibur B381 at the Royal Highland Show. Having been much fancied by the crowd he then headed up the team of three Aberdeen-Angus which won the Native Breed Inter Breed Teams Competition.
Carlisle
Sale May 2005
Galawater Lord Rupert C618 wins Championship.
The May Sale at Carlisle saw us offer our first bulls for sale by auction. Two sons of HF Air-Walk 33F were forward with Galawater Lord Rupert C618, a May 2003 son of Rawburn Lady Ruth Y338, taking the Supreme Championship and second highest price of 4700gns. He sold to the Whitehall Herd, Lacock, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Click here for Pedigree Information on Lord Rupert C618
New
Stock Bull Purchased
Rawburn Echester D297 purchased for five figure sum.
The yearling bull Rawburn Echester D297 has been purchased for a five figure sum from the Elliot’s Rawburn herd. “Chester” was the pick of the Rawburn sale bulls and is a product of the embryo programme being undertaken at Rawburn. He is a son of the top US sire Hoff Limited Edition and out of Cudlobe Ellen Erica 46D. He posted a 400 day weight of 736kg with a muscle depth of 92mm and a back fat scan of only 6.9mm. Chester ranks in the top 10% for 400 Day Weight and Terminal Sire Index, the top 15 % for 200 Day Weight and the top 25% for Milk. Four flush sisters have been retained at Rawburn and are amongst the favourites.
Click here for Pedigree Information on Echester D297
Embryo
Calves born
Ten embryo calves born during May 2005.
May saw the arrival of another batch of embryo calves, this time of North American genetics. We have two heifer calves by Riverbend Powerline out of Willabar Rosebud. These are flush sisters to Elliot Rosebud who has since won the inaugural Winter Fair Supreme Championship. Also on the ground are three calves out of Youngdale Tilda by the top growth sire Vermilion Yellowstone. These calves have big tops and a great hip structure. We also have a very sweet heifer out of Cudlobe Erica by the “curve bender” sire Connealy Lead On. Lastly we have a good bull and heifer calves by Stevenson Royce out of Coldstream Blackbird and Coldstream Tidy Bee respectively. Royce seems to have suited these big Canadian cows. Please see our Herd Sires and Females sections for more details on the breeding of these calves.
Heifer
purchased at Perth 2005
Galawater Angus buy Penguin heifer at Perth.
Galawater Angus made their first female purchase for almost five years when we purchased Penguin Blackbird C148 at Perth in February 2005. Blackbird is a very deep, thick daughter of Vermilion Dateline 7078, the high ranking growth and muscle sire from the US. Her donor dam is Coldstream Blackbird 9G, a Papa Equator daughter of the famous Knight’s Blackbird 9Y. A nine month old flush sister sold as the top-selling lot in the Calfward Dispersal the same day. Blackbird C148 ranks in the top 1% for 400 day weight and in the top 5% for 200 day weight, Milk and Terminal Sire Index.
Click here for Pedigree Information on Penguin Blackbird
C148
Pirntaton
Farm
Fountainhall, Galashiels TD1 2TH
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