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South Wales Club AGM 2011

The Club held its AGM at Cwmcynnon, Llwyndafydd on 14th May 2011 with Trudy and Jim Davies, Trujim. Jim’s parents had bought the Farm in the mid 60’s as a dairy unit. The Dairy herd was sold in the mid ‘90’s and suckler cows, pedigree and crossbred ewes, chickens and miniature horses have all been introduced to replace them over time.

Younger ewes and lambs by Trujim Nighthawk and Courthill Premier II

The pedigree flock were on fields according to the sire of the lambs. The first batch we saw were by the stock tup of the Goldies flock Livery Predator. He is by Tamnamoney Ned, that we saw on the Club trip to Northern Ireland in 2009. Ned is also the sire of Forkins Rocksolid 65,000gns top price Lanark 2010. The lambs were well grown and had excellent hind quarters.

Next were more lambs got by AI. This time by Larkhill Paddy’s Pride, stock tup at Ballynadrenta for the Hamills. He puts a strong bone and power into his lambs and the likely RWS ewe lamb was also seen in this batch.

Lambs by Tophill Regal

The last batch close to were those by Tophill Regal. He is by Knock Orion and was bought from Carlisle. Whilst not tipping the scales as much as the previous lambs would, there were some striking heads on display in this lot.

Yearling Ewes

After a quick view of the shearling tups and ewes we saw Courthill Premier II and Trujim Nighthawk before walking across the road to view lambs by them. We also saw the commercial flock of Texel cross Suffolk ewes with their second cross Texel lambs.

the commercial flock

After being fed and watered by Jim’s sisters Hywel Davies was elected to the Chair at the AGM itself and John Hardwick was elected to be Vice Chairman.