Scotland-Charolais Bull for Germny.

SCOTLAND-BULL FOR GERMANY.

A DEAL for the first ever British Charolais bull to be exported to Germany, was made last weekend, when Swalesmoor Comet left Eaglesfield, Dumfriesshire.

Bred in the Swalesmoor herd, owned by Danny Sawrij and managed by Iain Campbell, Comet is a 21-month-old Dingle Hofmeister son, out of the 13,000gns Maerdy Neptune-sired Logie Romany.

Comet is within the breed’s top 25% for both Terminal Index (26) and Self Replacing Index (30), and he scores within the top 15% on Calving Ease.

His siblings are already proving their worth; his full brother, Swalesmoor Cannon won Royal Highland M and S Elite Beefbreeder champion and sold in Perth in October for 7500gns, while his full bother and sister, Swalesmoor Aladdin and Swalesmoor April were awarded the respective junior male and junior female breed titles at the Royal Highland.

Comet joins a beef breeding enterprise owned by the Reidmann family, who farm 8000 acres near Stieton in north Germany. Iain Campbell commented: "The Reidmanns picked out Comet from our 40 cow pedigree herd because of his mix of good figures, good looks and good family history."