2005
North East Regional News

North East Flock visit to -
Cocklaw and Quarry House Flocks
-
28th August 2005

10.00am -
West Cocklaw for coffee

Farm Walk & Stockjudging

Lunch
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Travel over to Quarry House -

Farm Walk & Stockjudging

Tea

West Cocklaw Farm
Cocklaw Sparky

Breed Champion & Female
Champion: Cocklaw Sparky -
Home bred four crop ewe by
Pennine L1 - M C Robinson &
Son, Cocklaw Flock

Sparky was Interbreed
Champion and member of the
Interbreed Pair at last years Royal Highland.
West Cocklaw Farm is 200 acres which is run with 200 acres of rented ground.

They have around 100 pedigree Holstein Friesian milk cows with followers. There is also 250 commercial sheep which are predominately mules with some texel cross ewes which are put to the texel and suffolk tup, all the lambs are finished at home. West Cocklaw runs a flock of 70 Bluefaced Leicester ewes, each year they keep the best 30 - 40 tup lambs for shearlings which are sold at Kelso, Hexham and Carlisle, and also keep 15 - 20 of the best ewe lambs. The leicesters include blood lines from Pennine, Old Parks, Ashes, Chollerton. 25 blackies are kept to help breed a few replacements.

Matt also breeds Clydesdale Horses which he shows with success.

Everyone is very welcome to come
on the 28th August 2005 at West
Cocklaw Farm, Humshaugh, Hexham.

Matt, Delores, Nicholas & Kathryn
Quarry House Farm


Pen of mule ewe lambs
which won at Hexham
in September 2004

The Browell family have been
farming at Quarry House for
over 100 years. Quarry House
is 435 acres and is situated
11 miles northeast of Hexham.
It is run in conjunction with
600 acres of rented land at
Fell House and
Woodhall farms.

At present the farms run a 170
suckler cow herd and 35 in-calf
heifers. The farms carry
approximately 1000 Blackface
ewes, which are put to the
Bluefaced Leicester and
Blackfaced tups. 500 mules,
which are put to a Texel tup,
there are a further 400 hoggs
which are kept for replacements,
and a small flock of Bluefaced
Leicester ewes that are kept
to produce rams
for sale and for own use.

George, John and Fiona
welcome everyone to Quarry
House on Sunday
28th of August 2005.


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