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The Charnocks herd was founded in 1979 with the purchase of our first pedigree British Toggenburg, Airedale Beauty, then a four year old milker. It was another 4 years before we entered Beauty in her first show where, as an 8 year old, she gave 6.05 kilos of milk with fats of 3.36% at the morning milking and 5.76% at the evening milking, so winning her star and the milking competition too. |
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Our early success laid the foundations for our breeding policy of producing consistently high yielding, sound, attractive animals capable of long lactations over many years. To do this Charnocks milkers have, right from the start, been selected to:
A second family, founded with the purchase of two females from the Woldsway herd in the early 80's, has produced another successful and enduring line. The herd has been entirely homebred for many years and in particular there has been: |
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The current herd is exhibited at major shows, often winning inspection and milking classes, and has been BGS milk recorded for 25 years. It averages only five milkers but has produced: |
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More detailed data, including lactation records, are shown in the Champions and the Breed Champions sections. |
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All the most successful and promising herd sires now have semen taken and stored. This is available for sale both in the UK and for export. ( email )
Youngstock is often for sale and enquiries are welcome. ( email ) Stock has already been exported to Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Kenya, Switzerland and Tanzania. At present we have not exported semen - but we would like to ! |
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