Females

Laxfield Female Lines

Represented in the herd at present are as follows:

Clara Laxfield Clara 15th and her bull calf.
Kate Laxfield Kate 33rd and her bull calf.
Silk Laxfield Silk 53rd.
Countess Laxfield Countess 3rd.
Lady Lynda Laxfield Lady Lynda 3rd and her bull calf.
Spark Laxfield Spark 97th.
Diadem Laxfield Diadem 22nd and her heifer calf.
Marigold Laxfield Marigold 29th.
Virtue Laxfield Virtue 19th and her heifer calf.
Dimple Laxfield Dimple 2nd
Pansy Laxfield Pansy

Traditional

Laxfield Female Lines

Amorous Laxfield Amorous 11th at 1 month old
Julia Laxfield Julia 2nd
Silver Laxfield Silver 12th at 5 months of age

Management of Females

Heifer calves receive a small amount of concentrated feed at housing in late October/early November until weaning in mid January. They have ad-lib silage and barley straw.

Most heifers are bulled to calve at 3 years of age, as this suits our spring calving pattern, although they could comfortably calve at 2-2½ years of age if required.

From weaning, females rarely receive concentrate feed again. Cows, bulling heifers, in-calf heifers are over-wintered on limited big bale silage and straw and housed in cubicles.

Replacement females are selected on structural, fleshing ability and femininity. The milking ability of a heifer’s dam and sire’s dam is also taken into account.

A group of Badlingham Beresford daughters with their spring born calves. A group of Badlingham Beresford daughters with their spring born calves. A group of Badlingham Beresford daughters with their spring born calves.

A strict culling policy has been carried out for many years.

This has resulted in a herd of hard working cows that produce quality stock time and again with it not being unusual for cows to keep breeding into their 18th year.

Most cows weigh between 600-700 kilos at maturity and at weaning most calves weigh in excess of half their dam’s weight.

Kate 33rd and Bull Calf Kate 33rd and Bull Calf Kate 33rd and Bull Calf