Pedigree Charolais Cattle

Our first and main interest, which now consists of a herd of about 25 top quality pedigree breeding females plus followers. In the last ten years we have sold bulls in Perth up to 14,000gns for Rumsden Samurai, and in the show ring we have won numerous breed and Interbreed Championships. The highlight for us was in July 2003 at the Royal Show where our homebred heifers took 3 of the five maiden heifer classes and Rumsden Solitaire went on to be Reserve Female Champion (see pic above)

Semen Sales

In 2001 we set up a contract to import mainly charolais semen from Southern Ireland. This has taken off to such an extent that we now have over 300 semen customers. And our bulls have not let us down. In February 2004 one of our customers topped Perth sales with a bull by Doonally Prince, semen bought from us, selling for 28,000gns. In 2004 we expanded our semen business to include Limousin as well as Charolais bulls. Top selling bull in 2004and 2005 for the Charolais is Doonally New, and for the Limousin is Rocky, although exciting limousin prospect Navarin is also popular.

Commercial Cattle

Our small herd of commercial show cattle was dispersed in 2008 after providing us with some notable successes. In November 2002 we entered the Royal Smithfield Show in London for only the second time, and came away with the Reserve Supreme Steer in the show, with a homebred pure Charolais steer, "Eat my Shortts". We were also awarded the magnificent King's Cup for the Champion Exhibitor Bred beast in the Show. And so the "fatstocking" bug has bitten. Smithfield Show is only held every 2 years, and in 2004 we had Angus Champion with Cruz Missile, and Reserve for the Queens Cup (Best Native), and won the Duke of Norfolk Trophy. We also had 1st prize and Best BBx steer with Black Thunder. We now have established a small herd of about 20 commercial cattle, and have 8 pedigree limousin females. Our commercials are already being successful. In 2005 we had Supreme Champion at the South Eastern Primestock Winter Fayre with an imported Irish Bullock, and also Supreme Champion at the Hailsham Fatstock Show with a homebred Limousin X steer. In 2006 we had commercial champion at Kent County Show and Reserve st Edenbridge with Mini Me, and we were again champion at the SEPSWF with a homebred Charolais X heifer, Henna. That year we had two seconds and a fourth at Smithfield, and the best home bred Intermediate weight steer.

Herd Health Status: Rumsden Farm is in a TB free area (four yearly testing - clear herd test Dec 2011). The whole herd was vaccinated for BTV8 as of in May 2008 and had its annual boosters for BTV8 in January 2009, March 2010 and April 2011. The herd is fully BVD vaccinated.

Thank you very much to everyone who supported our sale. It went really well, and a full report will follow next week. A big thanks to Team Rumsden who all worked their fongers to the bone, did a marvellous job, and gave us their much needed moral support.

Above: Rumsden Fermanagh Reserve Senior Champion sold for 6,000 gns. Our other three bulls sold too, Fanta (3rd) 7,000gns; Fungus (2nd) 6,500gns; Firstmate (3rd) 5,500gns. Females also sold well, Dice and calf 6,200gns to James Webb; Dosca and calf 6,000gns; maiden heifer Gigi 5,200gns. The 65 head sold (including calves) sold for 189K an average of over 2,900 per head.

No more website updates now until after the sale - hope to see as many of you there as possible - 12th May Carlisle Mart. Then its on to N. Ireland for Balmoral Show to show Rumsden Fawkes for Mr Paddy Gallagher. Cheerio.... Rumsden - signing out!

Here it is - hot off the press -  The Dispersal Catalogue. Click here

(this is a .pdf file- it will take around 1 minute to download on broadband depending on the speed of your internet, less if you select the version without pictures)

Rumsden also have 4 quality young bulls for the bull sale in Carlisle

Click here for full details of the sale.

Countdown to the Dispersal of the Rumsden Herd in Carlisle on 12th May 2012

Click here see our promotional you tube film.  

 

ANGELUS - semen arrives next week - £15 per straw plus £40 royalty

Rumsden Fawkes now has his own Youtube movie - click here!

Bulls for sale Carlisle May 2012

Rumsden Fawkes will soon be heading off for pastures new with Paddy Gallagher in Northern Ireland. In late Feb 2012 he was weighed at 1185kgs - 1.71kg/day from birth! 7 cows already PD'd to him for our dispersal sale. Semen £20 per dose no royalty.

 

Corrie Alan sons sell for 16,000gns and 14,000gns at the Perth Bull Sales. Semen still only £30 per straw

simmental - Curaheen Apostle - £15 per straw plus £40 royalty

Blonde - Kilmoney Bruce - £15 per straw

Anyone need any soap for stirling - phone Bob by Friday please 07813 118604

Click here for more details of our sale

 

Rumsden Foxglove by Rumsden Cruiserweight - 1st, Charolais Champion and Champion Purebred South East Primestock Winter Fayre.

Congratulations to Rob Tremayne and Michelle Hanson of Marne Charolais. Champion South West Calf Show with Marne Gucci (Sportsmans Columbo x Rumsden Bianca). Bianca was purchased privately from Rumsden in January 2011 and produced Gucci in March. He was also awarded best 2011 bull calf in the S W Herd Competition.

Click here to see some wonderful pictures of Rumsden Cattle by Pauline Fowler

Rumsden Fawkes sold in private deal - Semen available £20/straw including delivery NO ROYALTIES.

Semen just in from two new sires: Euro and Excelent. Click here for details

Lisnagre Evonne - maternal sister to Liscally Elite. Elite semen £15 plus £30 royalty available from Rumsden. Less than 200 doses left.

News from our Northern Ireland trip and Fintona Judging September 2011

Show Soap - new colours and new sizes - click here for details and to order your soap now for Stirling.....

Latest Breedplan Data 1st August 2011

A number of our semen sires are featuring strongly on the latest Breedplan run:

	T.I.	S.R.I.	Calving Ease	Price per dose	Royalty fee
Rumsden Udimore	+64	+55	-0.4	£15	£30
Doonally Souverain	+52	+41	+0.7	£25	-
Corrie Alan	+33	+40	+6.3	£30	-
Sang D'Or	+52	+47	-3.4	£30	-
Doonally Nicefor	+33	+28	+18.9	£30	-
Silver Prometheus	+48	+40	-0.7	£20	-
Bova Sylvain	+42	+40	-6.9	£20	£30
Mogador	+42	+25	+13.8	£15	-
Pirate	+31	+34	+7.6	£20	-

Please note that, being proven sires, many of these bulls are no longer alive, and have less that 100 doses left. Some have less than 50.

Click here for details of all our Charolais and Limousin semen for sale

Click here to watch Welsh TV recording of Rumsden Fawkes winning the Junior Interbreed Championship at the Royal Welsh Show

Rumsden Fawkes - Champion Charolais and Junior Interbreed Champion Royal Welsh Show

Click here for YouTube video of Charolais Judging at the Royal Highland 2011

Rumsden Fawkes, 1st, Junior Male Champion, Junior Champion, Male Champion, Reserve Breed Champion, Beefbreeder Champion, Interbreed Junior Champion, Royal Highland Show 2011

Breed Champion for Rumsden at East of England Show - Graywood Echo

Rumsden Fawkes winning the Junior Interbreed Championship South of England Show. He also won Breed Champion, Male Interbreed and Reserve Supreme, Pairs Champion (with Mortimers) and Superbull Champion.

Graywood Echo - Charolais Champion Surrey County May 2011

Rumsden Show Team 2011 - click here for details

Rumsden Fuji 1st and Reserve Male Champion Devon County Show for Rob Tremayne and Michelle Hanson

Rumsden Fallout - sold to Drumshane Herd Feb 2011 - Male Charolais Champion Newark Show May 2011.

Graywood Crystal and her calf Rumsden Firefly by Cruiserweight - Female Champion Carlisle 2011 and top priced collective female 4,000gns to Kevin Thomas, Moelfre Herd.

Click here to visit our new semen sales page

New for April 2011 Liscally Eti son of the great Oldstone Egbert £12 per straw including movement Royalty fee £20.

 

New for April 2011 - Lisnagre Elite - Winner of Tully test for feed conversion - £15 per straw including delivery plus £30 royalty

Announcement: Many of our customers will have read in the farming press recently about the IBR outbreak at Progressive Genetics in Ireland. This will affect supplies of semen of some bulls as Devon and Echo who have sadly had to be slaughtered. These bulls may be subject to repricing once stocks are known. CUSTOMERS MAY REST ASSURED THAT ALL SEMEN SOLD BY RUMSDEN FROM THIS BULL STUD WAS COLLECTED BEFORE THE LAST FREE HERD TEST AND IS THEREFORE GUARANTEED IBR FREE.

More stock head to new pedigree homes both off farm and in the sale ring as February draws to an end.

More private sales news from Rumsden....

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Introducing Goldstar Echo - semen available in Feb 2011

We have been busy with visitors at Rumsden over the last couple of weeks, from Cornwall to Northumberland, and the first batch of private sales of the year has left for Wales (click link below). Watch this space - more news expected soon.... Private Sales - News from Rumsden Jan 2011

 

Rumsden Edelweiss: Supreme Champion S E Calf Show 2010

As Winter sets in at Rumsden three calves head off to young breeders Matt Reece and Cat Gould in Shropshire, and at the last minute, Rumsden Optima goes with them

Preparations underway for the South East Calf Show 2010

Rumsden Udimore sired calf at Dippen

Rumsden AI sires perform well at Perth Bull Sales

Rumsden Eire Junior Champion Perth October 2010

Sang D'Or son in Champion at Irish Beef Expo - Click here for picture link

Above: Rumsden Eubank sold privately to Neil Hardisty (Pillar Herd, Cumbria) - Three of Cruiserweight's first crop find homes in pedigree herds.

More pictures added - see Herd in Pictures

News Snippets: 8th Sept saw the arrival of our first calf by 55,000gns sire Sportsmans Columbo, a heifer out of Velvet, and on 14th September a bull calf out of Shannon.

Introducing our new Junior Herd Sire: Mowbraypark Express

Harestone Count ET joins the Rumsden Team

Success for Rumsden at the Welsh National Charolais Show

The winning team from Rumsden at the 2010 Kent County Show

Rumsden Eire, Reserve Champion East of England

New pictures of the Rumsden Herd online

Rumsden Eire - Male Champion and Reserve Junior South of England 2010

Reserve breed champion for Rumsden Delta at Surrey County

Moyness Vaubon and heifers enjoying the sunshine.

Click here for new pictures of the show team

Royal Show Junior Champion Rumsden Donegal Exported

Rumsden Docklands Senior Champion Carlisle May 2010 sold for 7,000gns

Rumsden Eros, Rerserve Junior Champion Carlisle May 2010 sold for 5,000gns

Rumsden Viva and calf, top priced female Carlisle May 2010, sold for 4,200gns

Click here to see video of Carlisle bull sales - including Rumsden Docklands Senior Champion (7,000gns) and Rumsden Eros Reserve Junior Champion (5,000gns)

Rocky sires Carlisle Champion - Windsole Elph 11,000gns

Breedplan scanning and weights 20th April 2010 - Rumsden Eros (for sale Carlisle 8th May) scans our best ever eye muscle - 168

New picture of Alcazar in AI centre: semen only £15 no royalty!

Corrie Alan sires Reserve Supreme Champion in Stirling

New pictures of Cottage Devon

Sportsmans Columbo semen available from Rumsden.

Show team 2010

Click here for details of Bulls for Sale

Irish Record Price Charolais Bull - place your advance order for Cottage Devon semen from Rumsden - £20 plus £40 royalty

55,000gns Sportsmans Columbo - semen for sale from Rumsden in mainland UK. Call 07813 118604 to place your order now!

Cattle from Rumsden exported to Northern Ireland Dec 2009

Kings of the Ring! Bob Temple with Rumsden Eros picking up the Bull Calf Championship at the SECA calf show with Rumsden December in Reserve. Click here for more..>

Dromiskin Viceroy son tops first of Irish Autumn sales

Celtic Vichy sons make 8,800gns and 7,000gns in Sterling

Rumsden Tsar son Champion at Fintona

Baby heifers at Rumsden August 2009

Baby bulls at Rumsden August 2009

First Limkiln Bosco calves impress.

Rumsden Akita - Breed Champion Kent County Show 2009

Click here for Rumsden Champions 2009 in pictures

Rumsden Donegal - Junior Champion and Reserve Breed Champion Royal Show 2009.

Cruiserweight 1st prize Royal Highland Show - pics to follow

Rumsden Docklands - Junior Interbreed Champion and Superbull Champion South of England

Semen Exchange Service - click to see what is wanted.

Irish Beef Expo 2008 - click here for more...

Andraemon by Nevers - £35 per straw from Rumsden from 1st September.

BLCS announce that Rocky is the top sire of pedigree limousin calves registered in 2007

Kent Show Pictures

Interbreed success for Rumsden Cruiserweight at the Kent County Show.

Success for New progeny at Royal Show 2008

Show Results 2008

News: An 11 month pure charolais fat bull from Rumsden sired by Telemarque sold at Ashford Market on 3rd June for 172.5 p/Kg!

New limousin semen bull - Celestin

Introducing Sang D'Or - semen for sale

Introducing Limkiln Bosco - semen for sale

Balthazar 85 - semen available from Rumsden £15 per straw including delivery, no royalty.

Plexus son Champion at Irish Premier sale April 2008

 

More private sales beat BTV deadline as we sell a Telemarque son for our record private sale price.

Rumsden make the most of the BTV vector free period as stock bull Farleycopse Telemarque heads a consigment to Cumbria

Woodpark Bishop by Rumsden Tsar sells for second top price of the day: 13,000gns at Perth Feb 2008 to David Stobart, Cumbria

Fantastic weekend for Rocky - son sells for 22,000gns in Carlisle while crossbred daughter is champion at Skipton and sells for £1680 at 6 months old

Rocky daughter makes 9,000gns at Sarkley sale as Rocky sons average 3,100 gns and daughters average 4533gns

Dromiskin Viceroy sons sell at 12,000 and 10,700 euros