About The Aynho Herd
Alex and Charles' grandfather, Alexander Patrick McLaren who came to The Warren in 1892, established the Herd in 1903. It is the oldest active herd in England and Wales in continuous existence and is part of a traditional mixed family farm now run by Alex, his brother Charles and Alex and Alison's sons Alistair and James.
The first stock bull was Proud Boy of Theakston and was purchased privately. Several of the families go back to our foundation stock. These include Evergreen, Beauty, and Bereda. Later families include, Proud Grace, Proud Gretina, Junerica, Estona, Princess, Rosa Erica and Palmyra.
We have introduced a new bloodline which includes PRIMETIME'S EILEEN 29'99 (ET) (IMP) and WINDOVER EILEEN 29F (ET) (IMP) and we are using one of our own young stock bulls AYNHO PRINCE KINCAID F341, son of BELVIN KINCAID 27'00 (IMP).
The herd consists of seventy-five breeding females. We run two stock bulls and use our own heifers as replacements. Most bull calves are kept to be sold as stock bulls.
We choose our stock bulls because of their length, easy fleshing, quiet temperaments and calving ease. We feel these are very important factors which we want to be passed on to their progeny.
Visitors to the farm always comment on how quiet the cattle are. All the cattle are performance tested with ABRI Breedplan. CMI registered.
Please come and visit us at the farm, we were delighted to welcome people from Australia and USA in 2006, and from USA. Australia, South Africa and Holland in 2007.
