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Commencing with a Pure Bred Bull and two C grade cows, the numbers have slowly built up until currently Abberley Fold have 150 registered females and 8 Stud Bulls which consists of a full range of graded, pure bred and Full Blood animals.
We lease Bulls to help maintain and encourage fellow breeders, priority is given to members who have purchased females from Abberley Fold.
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Abberley Highland Cattle in the snow
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Shelagh of Kenyon
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Our latest purchase of Hamish of Cruachan will hopefully take our herd to the next level, giving us the genetics we have been searching for in a Fullblood Herd Sire.
Hamish at his new home at Abberley Lodge
We had been looking for a new herd sire for the Abberley fold and liked the genetics and style of James of Cruachan (owned by Mr. Bill Wilson) which we tried to secure for our New Zealand Fold, but to our dismay "James" had passed away, so we asked Bill who was James's best son, and was he for sale. Many phone calls later contact was finally made with Jeff and Sue Boland, who owned Hamish of Cruachan. Initially they had not thought of selling Hamish but thought the idea of him going to New Zealand had merit and they would consider the proposal on the condition that we physically inspected Hamish first.
A great opportunity to meet Hamish, Jeff and Sue was the 2004 National Highland Show in Melbourne Australia. Needless to say that once meeting Jeff and Sue Boland of Claremont Highland Stud in Clunes, Victoria and seeing Hamish’s progeny I knew we were on the right track and we just had to have him. My wife was right, he was perfect to take our Fold to the next level.
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Hamish is an accomplished traveler now, having spent 30 days in Quarantine, a three hour fight to Auckland, then a long truck ride from Auckland to Abberley Fold situated at Burnt Hill Oxford North Canterbury (four days traveling).
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Hamish arrives in New Zealand
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We gave Hamish 21 days rest to help him get over his jet lag and acclimatize to New Zealand weather conditions. Hamish was then put out with 36 Full Blood Highland cows belonging to the famous Trelissick Fold which Beth and I have the privilege of managing. From here a select number of Abberley Fold Cows (and Hamish is still smiling just like us).
Would we do it all again ... yes yes yes.
ABBERLEY FOLD
Henry and Beth Prescott-Ballagh
Abberley Heights
Kowhatu Road
Waimate
South Canterbury
New Zealand
Phone: NZ (03)689 1340
Email: abberley@xtra.co.nz
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All pages and photos contained in this web site are...
Copyright of Cruachan Highland Cattle or the stated information source.
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Cruachan Highland Cattle,
PO Box 228, Maffra, Victoria 3860, Australia
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