Cadzow Bros Luing

🌟HIGHLAND LAMBING/CALVING JOBS🌟
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If you’re hard working, honest and have a good sense of humour, we have clients who are willing to pay good money for experienced lambing and calving assistants. 🐄 🐑

Good references preferred but not essential.

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JOBS AVAILABLE
INVERNESS
BLACK ISLE
EASTER ROSS
WESTERN ISLES

A brilliant Job for someone, the McGowans are the loveliest family and their stock and stockmanship are second to none

The Luing Cattle Society Ltd have recently announced their intention to provide all their members with free access to Signet’s services. As part of this new initiative the Luing Cattle Society will fund the recording costs of any paid-up Society member; effectively removing the financial barrier for herds to participate.

Extra data has been provided by the Society to support this work, including the provision of 50,000 pedigree records to strengthen the genetic evaluations and enhance Signet’s inbreeding software. This provides a fantastic opportunity for new breeders to get involved in weight recording, with cattle registered with the Society now appearing on the Signet database.

If you would like to get involved please email [email protected]

Hamilton Brothers are our final sponsors for 2023, they have supplied the majority of our machinery for many many years, from the occasional quad bike, right the way through to tractors and our top of the range forage wagon. They are always on hand for a phone call to talk us through breakdowns and repairs and parts are dispatched promptly and usually arrive next day to get us back up and running

Wildluing has been a true family project and what began as a dream and a few scribbled ideas during Covid became a finished reality at the start of 2023. Jack and Archie designed the suites and Emily and T***s hand picked all the interior finishes.
Jack quietly took over the old heifer shed and started building the basic frameworks, using local craftsmen and locally sourced building material it wasn’t long before the skeletal frames started to take shape into things of beauty. What Jack, Emily and Archie have created is true Luxury. Each suite contains its own fully fitted bathroom and kitchenette and no expense has been spared to ensure you have the best nights sleep you have ever had.
Otters play on the shoreline below and seals bask on the rocks, if you are lucky you might get a fly by from one of our resident golden eagles or while tailed eagles.
A place to truly escape the hustle and bustle of life and see wildlife literally on your doorstep.
Plus as an added benefit you get to see our cows up close, in the landscape that the breed was established in.
The guys have very kindly given us a 10% discount code for any stays booked for April 24 (Enter Luing10 at the checkout).
So if you are struggling with what to get the other half for Christmas (less than 50 days to go by the way) I can guarantee you will not go wrong with a stay at WildLuing! Get booked in fast though as any April dates won’t hang around for long!

AH contractors over the last couple of years have been busy on Luing putting up deer fences around several new plantations, we have currently planted over 200,000 trees across 200 acres to create new broadleaf woodlands on some of our poor to marginal ground. While the woodlands are fenced off from livestock and wildlife currently it is hoped that in 20-30 years time the trees and surrounding land will form an integral part of the grazing rotation with cattle and sheep being utilised to develop and improve the mosaic of the land.
Alex’s new shop grand opening is on the 11th November so don’t forget to pop across and have a look (after you’ve bought your stock from the sale of course 😉)

Crystalyx UK supply us through Carr's Billington with all our energy bucket demands, this includes upward of 40 80kg hi-mag buckets which go in front of all cows to ensure we meet Magnesium requirements during critical periods, we also utilise a similar quantity of cattle booster buckets which give excellent supplementation to all our Youngstock post weaning who after a brief spell indoors (7-10 days), winter outdoors in groups of 30-35. We aim to have as many of the heifers reach 380kg by 400days old as possible so it is important that the heifers stay on a rising plane throughout the duration of winter. We weigh all Youngstock at weaning/200days, 300days, 400days and 500 days so we have a regular insight into how both Individuals and groups are performing

Drew Hutton at NutriScot is helping us with our move to a more regenerative farming approach. With Drew’s help we have entirely cut out the need for fertiliser on the hill ground, significantly reduced fertiliser usage in the silage fields opting instead for regular soil testing, seaweed mixtures and micro nutrient foliar applications with a long term view to improving overall soil health. We are moving more into mob grazing with all heifers and ewe lambs mobbed and grazing silage aftermath’s and two large groups of 250+ cows/calves and 600 sheep in each mob moving weekly from hill to hill in order to give long rest periods before stock return. We are also utilising NoFence collars In some areas.

D & J Campbell Ltd are our go to haulage company, Ian and his fantastic team of drivers always go above and beyond. From delivering urgent hay to us after sudden weather changes to loading heifers direct from the boat decks on ferry slipways. Ian and the team do our market runs, abattoir runs and livestock delivery’s along with bringing us fertiliser, fencing materials and so much more. If you are looking for haulage from the sale on the 11th then Ian will be around on the day for all requirements regardless of wether you need 2 or 50 head moving. Nationwide coverage provided, be it Aberdeen, Norfolk, Wales or just down the road. We are very Lucky to have such an exceptional haulier on the doorstep

A fantastic group we had around the farm yesterday, great to speak to so many like minded people!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VfwuERVp0

Follow the link to watch the video “the men who invented a cow”

An insight into the early development of the Luing breed and highly worth a watch

Photo is of March born young bull Luing Berretta whose taking shape nicely now.

Photo curtesy of Tracy Marsden

Lot 52 in Saturdays sale along with donations made throughout the day raised a total of £2136 for spinal injuries Scotland and healthy options - Oban. We would like to thank everyone very much for donating and the Jardine family for purchasing her

Our final sponsor for this year’s production sale is D & J Campbell Ltd. Campbells do pretty much all of our livestock haulage and much of our other haulage. From running sheep and cattle to markets and abbatoir’s to fertiliser delivery’s . We can’t get a lorry onto the island so our livestock is brought off via tractors and trailers and then we do a ramp to ramp transfer with Ian and his team of drivers delivering them to their destinations. Ian will be present at the sale on Saturday and offering haulage solutions to buyers

Hamilton Ross Group are our 4th sale sponsor, they have been supplying us with machinery and implements for many years. From forage wagons and tractors to sheep and cattle weigh systems