Pedigree Cattle for Sale
We will have Luing heifers for sale at the Breed Society Sale at Castle Douglas in 2013.
We have Luing bulls and Luing, Sim-Luing and Aberdeen Angus cross bulling heifers for sale privately.
The Arbigland Pedigree Herd
We diversified into beef in 2005 when we established a herd of pedigree Luings. The Luing is a composite breed based on the Shorthorn and the Highland breeds developed on the Island of Luing in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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| Current Luing senior stock bull Drinkstone Hamilton |
From our point of view they tick all the boxes being:
- hardy enough to stay outside all year
- excellent foragers for our grass based system
- docile to handle
- fertile, milky and good mothers
- low maintenance with good feet
- fast growing with hybrid vigour
- capable of producing premium quality beef with high scoring carcasses
- a beautiful enhancement to the landscape with their palette of red, roan and white coats!
We currently have around 150 suckler cows. They are either bred pure to Luing bulls (visit the Luing Cattle Society website ) and we also cross them with Simmental and Aberdeen Angus bulls.
The bulls we are using currently are Luings Drinkstone Hamilton and College Valley Kasper, Aberdeen Angus Longbank Emperor and Simmental bull, Courance Bullet. We aim to breed for length and fleshing ability as well as the key maternal traits such as udder and teat conformation and genetic traits such as tenderness.
We pay particular attention to herd health:
- We are a closed herd and being surrounded by water our cattle do not go "nose to nose" with stock from neighbouring farms. They are watered from mains water or captured rainwater rather than from burns to avoid catching anything.
- We are in the Premium Cattle Health Scheme and accredited free of BVD and Johnes.
- We vaccinate for leptospirosis and IBR and dose for worm & fluke regularly.
- We are in a low risk TB area and our last test in Oct 2010 was clear.
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| Arbigland Koldstreamer photographed at 24 months (left) and at 16 months (right). Recently sold privately. | |
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| College Kasper, junior Luing stock bull purchased at the premier sale at Castle Douglas February 2010. | Aberdeen Angus stock bull Longbank Emperor |
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| previous Simmental stock bull Courance Alister |
Luing bulling heifers bound for the Premier sale in Castle Douglas 11th February 2011 |
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| 8 month old Sim-Luing heifers from the Autumn calving herd |
Yearling bulling heifers |