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Balmachie Everous J070 sells in private deal for £20,000

Chrissie — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:47:40 +0000

Sold for £20,000 to John, Kay and Brendon Hayward of Lady Croft, named after the first bull that John Lascelles and the late John Graham of Tangier jointly imported from Canada in 1971.

Balmachie Everous sold privately to Lady Croft for £20,000

This April 2009 born young bull is statistically in the top 1% of the breed with top value traits where it really matters, being, terminal sire, self replacing, milk, 400 day scrotal size and eye muscle commented Kay Hayward.

Balmachie have retained a 50% semen interest and the bull travels to Cogent next week for collection. We hope to have semen available for sale shortly.

He has already served this year’s group of heifers.

His mother, Balmachie Edith is a great cow, her dam Cudlope Ellen Erica and sire, T C Freedom are a combination breeding very well at Balmachie and the bull`s sire Ankonian Elixir 100 has proven himself.

To view a video of this bull click here.

See video of 75,000gns Balmachie Black Bear

Chrissie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:08:37 +0000

There has already been plenty of interest on this site regarding the sale of Balmachie Black Bear so for those of you wanting to see more take a look at this video that was shot back in the summer by Rob Bryce.

Balmachie Black Bear – UK Record Breaker from Rob Bryce on Vimeo.

Aberdeen-Angus takes reserve interbreed honours at Royal Highland

Chrissie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:33:03 +0000

The Aberdeen-Angus breed has taken the reserve overall interbreed beef championship at this year’s Royal Highland Show.

Lead out by John Lascelles, the two year old bull Balmachie Keystone G041 from Messrs J F Lascelles family and Pip Robson and family was tapped out behing the Galloway bull who took the top spot under judge and Charolais and Saler breeder Peter Donger.

This a tremendous day for native beef breeds, as the Galloways had previously taken the red ticket in the groups, also judged by Mr Donger. A delighted John Lascelles punched the air as he stepped out as reserve. Readers of previous Highland posts will know this one is by The Moss Mr Eshton out of Kim of Fordafourie. For first time Highland Show exhibitors John Lascelles and family, this surely is a tremendous day. Mr Donger said “the bull was a worthy reserve champion to the Galloway, showing great style and good movement.”