GARROWBY FARM 55
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• DEC / JAN 2024
GARROWBY FARM 55
Calving is in spring and autumn . Clive says the autumn calving of two-thirds of the pedigree Limousins is geared towards pedigree sales in February and May .
“ We calve all the commercials in spring from March onwards , as well as one-third of the pedigree herd with the remainder from October / November , so that the bulls can be sold at 18-20 months when they are ready for some serious work .
The Garrowby Limousins herd now commands respect in the Limousin world , something that Clive is very proud of having brought on , but he ’ s not standing still nor resting on any laurels .
“ We now have around 80 cows and run a further 20 recipient female Fleckviehs to carry pedigree Limousin embryos . Fleckvieh heifers have lots of milk , they are big and can calve a pedigree Limousin bull calf down relatively easily .
“ They are all high health , fitting with our high health status . They follow strict quarantine rules when they come on to farm . We have been getting the Fleckviehs from Germany but we had notification recently that we can ’ t get any more from Germany at the moment because of the Bluetongue epidemic . We are now sourcing potential high health status breeders .
Selling stock , once problematic when Clive first came to Garrowby , is now far better than he inherited . He has a product that is in demand .
“ We sell a lot of bulls both direct from here and at the pedigree sales . The
Grahams Rooney
very best go to Carlisle and others . We keep between 7 to 10 heifers each year as replacements and the rest go to the February sale at Carlisle or are sold from here too .
Clive sold Garrowby Shipley at the May bull sale in Carlisle last year for 22,000 guineas and averaged about 9500 guineas across the 5 bulls he took . He also sold two in the October sale , the first two sons of a bull he bought called Grahams Rooney and averaged 11,000 guineas .
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