Shufflebottom to sponsor Luing Open Day
Luing cattle breeders Ben Challum Ltd of Woodburn, Crieff,
Perthshire in Scotland, are to host the Luing Cattle Open Day in
2012 -- and Shufflebottom is to be a sponsor of the event.
The Ben Challum enterprise is managed by Mr Matthew Mauchlen,
who took delivery of two Shufflebottom steel-framed buildings in
2011, a cattle court and a bull pen-cum-general purpose building.
The cattle court is 100 feet by 40 feet, and the bull pen and
general purpose building is longer but narrower, 120 feet by 20
feet. Both buildings use the Shufflebottom eaves beam gutter system
and have Marley Eternit P6R fibre cement roofs.
Besides purebred Luing cattle, Ben Challum Ltd raise Sim-Luings,
a cross between the Luing and the Simmental, popular for combining
hardiness and high beef quality.
Luings themselves are tough, long-lived and hornless. They are
thrifty feeders and do well on grass. The breed originates from the
six-mile-long Inner Hebridean island of Luing and was created by
three brothers, Ralph, Denis and Shane Cadzow. Back in 1947
the Cadzows set about creating the breed by crossing Beef Shorthorn
x Highland females with a Beef Shorthorn bull, named Cruggleton
Alastair. The breed was officially recognised in 1965, and reigns
supreme on the island of Luing, where the Cadzow family farming
business continues.