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Tuesday 9 October 2007

What's In A Name?

Do you remember way back in May I asked for suggestions for a name for a bull we are keeping to breed from? In the end we ignored all (one) suggestions and left it up to James.

Here we go again - as I reported last week our grand old lady Geri has had her tenth calf. She's one of those (as posted yesterday) who has had more bulls than heifers, but as this one is out of a very good bull and a nice light roan, we decided to register the calf.

So, mother = Strickley Geri; father = Hooton Fair Perfection. Any suggestions?
Well, as usual with online competitions, the answer is already decided. Before I could offer up a few well chosen names James had been online to the Shorthorn Society's registration service and done the deed. Our latest stock bull in-waiting is "Strickley Perfect Ten".
Tenth lactation, perfect cow -( classified excellent), sire's name etc.

My suggestion (after the closing date that no one knew about) was Strickley Pacemaker. You have to be as old as me to understand why.

1 comment:

Iota said...

You've presumably done Strickley Ballroom already?