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[monica a waltho]

Lovely picture of bull on front page
Who is he? and do you have full size pic of him?

[clacko]

Oops

[clacko]

[monica a waltho]

Hi Clacko
yours is avery nice bull but hes not Red!!!

[Kelvin and Lottie James]

Paul
Sarcasm is the highest form of ignorance and the lowest form of wit!!!!!!!!

[moomin]

He is actually my baby boy1 Moomin Sun King. "Sunny".
He was reseve male champion at the national show.
He is the kindest sweetest chap and I love him to bits.
Di

[Kelvin and Lottie James]

Yes Di He is lovely, we saw him at Malvern. Please can we have a full photo of him, so that everyone else can see what a beautiful bull he is.
Lottie

[monica a waltho]

Thanks for clearing that up-- eventually !!!
Full pic would be nice
Going to look up his pedigree now, is he long or short

[moomin]

Hi Lottie.
Mark took a lovely pic of him at Newbury, Mark is such a good photographer, but I don't know how to put it on the board and I would need to ask permission anyway.
As I probably said he was a complete surprise! His mother, Kara, hadn't calved for 3 years and I was going to bite the bullet and get rid of her. When we brought her down off the hill she seemed to have started to bag up, 6 weeks later Sunny arrived! The only bull that could have stocked her was Apollo who had returned home because he was firing blanks, or so we thought. Our secretary will tell you I was sweating on the DNA results!
Apollo is also the sire of Kara.When line breeding goes right it picks up all the good strong genes and this seems to have happened here. His real strength is that he goes back to Statenboro' Polly 21st who was the only cow to reach Elite status [3 stars] in the old DCS elite cow scheme for the quality of her progeny.
Sunny looks to be Apollo's last fling. He is called Sun King after Louis 14 who built Versailles and modelled himself on the God Apollo. Louis 14 was known as the Sun King.
I have got a few calves on the ground from Sunny which look quite nice. He is "long" [bred from 2 "long" parents] If all goes well we will take semen from him soon - never count your semen until it is frozen!

[Anna]

Lovely story!

[Kelvin and Lottie James]

Mark,
Would it be possible to have a full size photo of this bull on this page?
There has been quite a lot of interest in him and it would be nice for newcomers to see what a good bull should look like.
Lottie