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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.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!
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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.
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 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.
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 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
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 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.
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 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.
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 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
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 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
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 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.
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 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
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