Herd book means any book, register, file or data medium maintained by a breeders organisation in which purebred breeding animals are entered or registered with mention of their ancestors. Most of french breeds have a herd book in which animals are registered. Herd book limousin belge cooperativa agraria 234 fotos. Herd book limousin belge agricultural cooperative 234. The herd has won the north west limousin clubs annual herd competition on numerous occasions and in 2011 won the 40th anniversary national limousin herd competition. Irish limousin cattle society limited kilglass mitchelstown co. Limousine, is a french breed of beef cattle from the limousin and marche regions of france. The weight differential between progeny sired by bulls registered in the limousine herd book versus unregistered bulls reach 15 to 55 kg liveweight for heifers and 20 kg liveweight for weaned calves. Press release november 2014 new basco chairman announced introduction to basco. Jersey herd book, volume 2 royal jersey agricultural. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Blancbleu belge, blonde daquitaine, charolaise, limousine. This system can thus handpick and propagate the very best bulls in commercial farms to ensure clearcut genetic herd improvement. It has a herd of 95 registered limousine suckler cows.
With the mechanisation of agriculture in the twentieth century, numbers declined. We have been improving our registered herd of over 40 years now and are very proud of our animals. The french limousin herd book was then created in 1886 to ensure the breeds purity. Herdbook limousin agricultural cooperative boisseuil. The smallest native breed of cattle in the british isles, they are hardy, dualpurpose cattle, producing excellent beef and milk, an ideal suckler cow for conservation grazing. Basco online herd book british limousin cattle society. The charolaise herd book was established back in 1864, and breeders have progressively selected for and improved these traits ever since. Limousine, is a french breed of beef cattle from the limousin and.
Alongside the limousin herd the ridley family, with the help of stockman kevin bates, also run a 300ewe flock of swaledales and an 80ewe flock of texels. Le herdbook limousin en chiffres campagne 20162017. Promoting the dexter breed of cattle dexter cattle society. We support dexter cattle owners and breeders, offering advice and a range of services. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
A number of breed societies decided to cooperate when replacing their existing databases for pedigree registration and herd book administration. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. Such is the case for the charolaise and the limousine. The gaec coudert is a family farm of 150 hectares situated in the heart of limousine country. This led to the formation of a company called basco that these founding societies use as a. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
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