News in 2008
AI Haughton SAS Joe Louis 1 named Bull of the Year
2007:
It was recently announced by the South Devon
Herd Book Society (SDHBS) that AI HAUGHTON SAS JOE LOUIS 1 had
won the Bull of the Year competition for 2007 after winning
Breed Champion at numerous shows last year.
Shropshire and West Mid Show:
Z EYTON SAS BASSA 3 (pictured below) was the
winner of the Interbreed Native Young Bull class judged on inspection
and performance at the Shropshire and West Mid Show.
Midland Club Sale:
The SAS Breeding Group were again well represented
at the Midland Club sale on the 3rd May 2008 at Stradford-upon-Avon.
Two year old bull X EYTON SAS Illya 4 (bred
by T M Kent) sold for 3,500 gns.
While M & M Rushbrookes two unhalter broken
yearling heifers BRETTLES SAS BLUEBELL 13 and BRETTLES SAS VENUS
5 made 1,200 gns and 1,000 gns respectively.
News in 2007
SDHBS Herd Competition:
Best Bull: 1st Haughon SAS
Joe Louis 1
Bred and exhibited by W H Sandford
Best Cow: Brettles SAS Venus
2
Bred by M&M Rushbrooke (exhibited by T J Warhurst)
Midland Club Herd Competition:
Best Bull: 2nd Haughon SAS
Joe Louis 1
Bred and exhibited by W H Sandford
Best Small Herd: Cilgwrrwg
Herd owned by R V Hartshorn
Wessex Region Herd Competition:
Best Bull: 1st Rufford SAS Dillon
Bred by R W Bostelmann (exhibited by W H Scott)
Royal Bath & West Show:
HAUGHTON SAS JOE LOUIS 1 (bred by Bill Sandford)
was selected as RESERVE SUPREME CHAMPION at
this years Royal Bath and West Show.
HAUGHTON SAS JOE LOUIS 1 was also involved
along with EYTON SAS LLANBLETHIAN in winning the RESERVE
INTERBREED PAIR at the West Mid Show.
To finish a successful showing year, HAUGHTON
SAS JOE LOUIS 1 was also a member of the group that won the
RESERVE NATIVE TEAM OF THREE at the Royal
Welsh Show.
News in 2006
AI Haughton SAS Joe Louis 1 (bred by Bill Sandford)
was successfully selected into this years EBLEX Young Bull Promotion
Scheme. The scheme helps with he cost of semen collection for
bulls nominated by the Breed Society.
AI Haughton SAS Joe Louis 1's particular performance
strengths are in growth and milk, whilst also having a good
balance for calving ease, particularly in his daughters.
AI Haughton SAS Joe Louis 1 qualifies for export
to the EU, Canada, the US, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
News in 2005
To be updated soon.
News in 2004
At the annual Midland Club Sale held in May,
Bob Bostelmann (Rufford Herd) won the prime stock class with
a SAS bred heifer.
News in 2003
The Brettles Herd won the Midland Club Herd
Competition, the Edmeston Trophy (Best Herd of Cows), the Trevassack
Shield (Best Youngstock) and the Harding Trophy (Best Progeny
Group).
The SAS Breeding Group was well represented
at the annual Carlisle Bull Sale held on the 23rd May and sold
the top priced South Devon bull at the sale with Brettles SAS
Red Commander.
News in 2002
The Brettles Herd had a successful trophy year,
winning both the Cecil Harvey Shield for the Best Herd of Cows
in the National Herd Competition and the HSBC Midland Bank Trophy.
News in 2001
To be updated soon.
News in 2000
To be updated soon.
News in 1999
In this year, the SAS south devon breeding
group was formed, the name SAS originally stood for Shropshire
And Staffordshire but later was changed as the group looked
to expand out of the area.
The original founding members were:
R Hartshorn Cilgwrrwg Herd (SAS Co-ordinator)
R Bostelmann Rufford Herd
J & B Firkens Betton Herd
M & M Rushbrooke Brettles Herd
T Kent Eyton Herd
R & & Jones Delfar Herd
W H Sandford Haughton Herd
P Tavernor Dashers Herd
At our second meeting, we selected our standard
of the bulls we should use as linkage bulls and were given a
complete list of all south devon bulls BLUP figures from MLC
which gave us a chance to find bulls which reached our set standard.
The standard we set was:
TO SELECT BULLS IN THE TOP 25% OF THE BREEDS
POTENTIAL IN 400 DAY GROWTH, MUSCLE DEPTH AND OVERALL BEEF VALVE
- BUT NOT AT THE COST OF ANY OTHER TRAIT -
WITH CALVING VALUE AND MILK TRAITS HAVING TO
BE AVERAGE OR ABOVE AS WELL AND, OF COURSE, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT
OVERALL BREED TYPE AND CONFORMATION.
We then came up with a short list of bulls
that fitted our standard and then went about going into great
depth on this short list we had selected.
In the end we selected Z PAPER MILL SAFFRON
(this bull is polled) and HIGHGATE RADICAL 4th. We were lucky
that semen was already collected from Radical so all group members
could use him. Another stroke of luck was that Tim Kent managed
to buy Radical so we had both straws and the bull to use in
the group. Bob Bostelmann also managed to buy Saffron and allowed
other members to use him.
The SAS group was up and running!
News in 1998
The idea of a new breeding group was discussed
and a meeting of like minded people was called on November 5th
with 12 breeders of South Devons in the Midlands area of the
UK attending. The meeting was held at Bob Bostelmann's farm
in Staffordshire and many ideas and formats were looked at for
the new group. Apart from the actual breeders, advisors from
the MLC and SIGNET were also present to give advice and guidance.
The basic idea was that with more cows, and
by working together we could get greater and faster genetic
improvement. This would be achieved by selecting bulls we could
all use or, at least each farm could use one of the bulls to
link directly with the other farms. These bulls would be called
"linkage bulls", hence the wide spread of the bulls
genes would give more accurate forecast in the BLUP figures.
All cattle on the members farms would be weight recorded and
MLC would then process the data and give printouts on the genetics
of all the animals on the farms.
It was decided to try and get onebull that
was available by AI and one that a group member would buy and
allow others to send cows to be served by that bull.
We set up a standard for the ideal bull we
could accept as a linkage bull, however if bulls that did not
directly meet this standard but had other points we needed or
thought would enhance our aims then the group would also look
at those bulls collectively.
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