Churchroyd takes dairy interbreed again at Great Yorkshire Show
© Tim Scrivener Emotions ran high in the dairy rings when the Collins family’s Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 51 took the interbreed title on the opening day of the Great Yorkshire Show (13-16 July).
This was the second interbreed championship for the family’s Churchroyd herd, from Whitley, Dewsbury, and the first without Mary Collins, who started the Churchroyd prefix with husband Richard in 1976.
The Churchroyd herd first achieved the interbreed title with Churchroyd Peggy 19 in 2016, but this year did it with another homebred female, a daughter of the Australian sire Treeton Pingerley out of a homebred cow by Drisgol Watzon EX90.
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She was shown as a heifer and won at the South West Dairy Show in 2019. At Yorkshire, she was shown by Mary’s son Ian and grandchildren Harry and Molly.
Together they milk about 140 mostly Dairy Shorthorn cows at home, selling milk to Longley Farm.
The fifth calver – classified as VG89 – gave 11,000 litres in her last lactation at 4.7% fat and 3.25% protein.
Judge Alan Timbrell was impressed by the champion’s poise, adding that she was full of milk, had excellent rump structure, teat placement and an excellent rear udder.
“She really was at 12 o’clock, and her excellent structure meant she could track around the ring so well,” said Mr Timbrell.
Holstein takes reserve
He said the phenomenal teat placement and rear structure placed her ahead of the day’s reserve, the Holstein Newbirks Caviar Susan 112 EX93 from the Lawsons, Otley.
She calved in December and is giving 45 litres a day at 4.7% fat and 3.25% protein in the Lawsons 200-strong Holstein herd.
The Holstein champion is out Susan 108 EX94, which was selected for the European Championships in Libramont as a senior cow in 2019. She is by the Mount SSI DCY Mogul Gillete Caviar.