The Luckley herd was one of the leading herds for Production and also for Index coupled with high Type, the 13 VG or better Younger cows avgd 1122 gns* a premium over the average of more than 300 gns.
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| Luckley Lucinda 18 |
The top priced cow was Lot 45 Luckley Lucinda 18 VG 88. She is a daughter of Spring Walk Gingers Jake and was bought by M Grose for 2600 gns for the Trewarnevas herd on the Lizard in Cornwall. The Grose family also paid 2200 gns for Luckley Ivy 22 Ex 90 A Luxury daughter in her third lactation and paid 1050 gns for the Onward incalf heifer Lot 72 L Crocus 9.
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| Luckley Ivy 22 |
The buyer with most lots was Dean Anderson completing the purchase of his 40 cow Guernsey nucleus to join the 300 cow high yeilding Mayne Holstein herd at Elgin in Scotland. Dean purchased 11 cows and 4 calves which had an average GMI of 302 and takes the average GMI of his nucleus to GMI 221 more than twice the breed average.
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| Luckley Eva 33 (Lot 66 - 800 gns) |
They included Lot 67 at 1000 gns, Lot 75 also at 1000 gns, Lot 53 at 850 gns, Lot 51 at 800 gns and Lot 66 (Luckley Eva 33) also at 800 gns.
Rita and Mark Dunn purchased 2 VG Royal Oaks to join their Rosewood herd Lot 47 at 1600 gns and Lot 48 at 1500 gns
A welcome new buyer of the breed was Mr Metcalf from Reading who purchased Lot 29 for 820 gns and Lot 79 for 800 gns. He was accompanied by Colin Gleed who is delighted to be milking Guernseys albeit two once again.
Other buyers new to the Breed included Mr Steel from Stirling who bought nine, Mr McColm from Stranraer who bought seven as well as Mr Hogg and Mr Foster from Northern Island.
Jon Yewdall from Devon bought 13 of the calves as well a couple of cows to start replacing his TB losses. Also buying calves was Mr Maiklem from Launceston who had bought calves at Boskenna and Hampton for his son who plans to start milking shortly. The trade for calves was tremendous with 38A making 580 gns and most weaned calves making more than 300 gns. All the calves were sired by GGBP Young bulls and were a uniform and attractive bunch.
Derek Moody was another who bought several taking nine for the Mount Prosperous herd of RD Kent to provide Milk for the Processing business.
All in all a very satisfactory outcome, with good young cows fetching a healthy premium and a continued strong trade for young stock.
* What is a "gns" --- it's a Guinea. According to Paul Lewis' website about Victorian coinage, "A guinea was £1-1s-0d (which is £1.05) and could be written as '1g' or '1gn' or, in the plural, '3gs' or '3gns'. It was considered a more gentlemanly amount than £1. You paid tradesmen, such as a carpenter, in pounds but gentlemen, such as an artist, in guineas. It was a tradition in the legal profession that a barrister was paid in guineas but kept only the pounds, giving his clerk the shillings (they were all men then)."
