Lincoln Reds


The Lincoln Red is one of the most underrated breeds in the country. Extremely adaptable, easily managed and naturally polled, it crosses well with any of the continental breeds but especially with the British Blue.

Here at Hemingby, the Lincoln herd is run very commercially, with the Spring calving herd running out all winter on sandland and calving themselves there, with a Dutch barn for shelter. They winter on silage , straw and some sugar beet. The Autumn calving herd are brought in early November, and winter on silage alone. From 1954-2011, the herd has won 55 Supreme, 34 Male, and 67 Female Championships at Summer Shows, Royal Smithfield & Bull Fairs.

St Fort Essex , taken at the end of the 2007 summer show season in the Home grass field at Brook House. He was sold at 6 years old to another Lincoln Red herd for further use, after 4 very successful years at Hemingby. Essex has very good Signet figures with an EBV rating of 37 being in the breed's top 10%. 10 sons of his have now been registered and sold for breeding , with EBVs(estimated breeding values) ranging from 31-50 ,50 being the highest figure ever recorded in the herd. They have been sold into Leics, Lincs, Suffolk, Yorks, and Essex itself. We were able to take Essex down to UK Sires centre at Dartington , Devon , where he completed his initial tests and produced 3100 straws of excellent quality semen . Semen has been sent to Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, and South Africa, with enquiries from Canada, Russia and the USA. Semen is also now available for sale in the UK. He sired the Champion Bull , Grovehouse Martin, at the Society Autumn Sale in October 2011, and sold for 4500gns.

18 month old St Fort Essex embryos are doing well on the farm in New Zealand of Mike Steiner. Mike is a real enthusiast of the breed, and farms on North Island, running a large Deer stud with his cattle. Another 2 cows were flushed in June 2011, yielding 15 embryos, these by a different bloodline Lincoln bull "Olney Sam", and have arrived safely in N.Z. on the same farm.

Lincoln Red beef, ready for the freezer is now available. Mixed quarters, each of which should contain around 18 joints + steak, fillet, stew and mince, approx 140lbs in weight. Smaller amounts can be arranged. Current price: 310p per pound.

Once you've tried it, you will never want anything else !

Our senior stock bull Donington Kavannah, taken in July 2011, is proving an extremely easy calving bull. He is breeding very well, and has already bred a Female Champion in his first crop.( see below)

Our new Junior Stock bull Legbourne Nuffield, bought privately at this year's Lincolnshire show. He is a son of the top breeding bull Market Stainton George, and is very quiet and full of natural fleshing. The photo shows him with a typical Anwick Chancellor daughter, Hemingby Mattie H.378.

Hemingby Treasure N.655 won many prizes round the 2011 Summer shows, including Female Champion at Deeping, and has been sold to Thomas Madden, Ballymena, County Antrim, N.I. in calf to Nuffield . She is the first daughter of Donington Kavannah to be sold, and  arrived safely in Ballymena just before Christmas 2011.

Hemingby Elliot, a son of Market Stainton Goodman, was top priced bull at the March 2011 Lincoln Red Bull Sale. He was sold for 5100gns, a record price for the herd, to the Hullahs at Whixley, York, for their Tancred herd.

Hemingby Polly M.603, a martin (twin) daughter of Market Stainton Goodman, was Reserve Supreme and Female British Native, and Lincoln Red Champion at the Royal Smithfield Show held in conjunction with the Peterbrough Winter Stock Festival in November 2010. She sold for 225p a kg to John Laking for his nationally known butcher's shop in Louth, Lincs .


The Lincoln Red Annual Farm Walk round the Hemingby Herd was held on Sunday 17th July 2011. More than 120 members and other interested people enjoyed close contact with the cattle, as can be seen from the above photo, taken in the overwintering Sandpit field. with Legbourne Nuffield in the foreground. The day also included 40 slides showing the old horned type of Lincoln cows, plus shows and salesfrom the 1960s, and a large static display, the centrepiece of whichwas a family tree of each of the 6 cow families in the Hemingby Herd. There were 24 generations of the Bridget family, which can be traced back to 1864, on display.

NEWS REPORTS

A very successful Beef Expo, organised by the NBA, was held on Newark showground on May 26th 2011, with the Lincoln Red stand the biggest ever entered by the breed. The previous night the Expo Dinner was held at Kelham Hall, where nearly 400 guests enjoyed Roast Sirloin of Lincoln Red beef, sponsored by the breed itself. The breed stand featured 6 pens of cattle, and included a pedigree stock bull, with a cow suckling an eyecatching 10 month old calf, 2 steers run on a cereal free system,2 Lincoln Red cows suckling British Blue X calves, and 4 Lincoln Red sired yearling heifers from a 200 + suckler herd using the breed to produce heifer replacements to go to British Blue and Limousin sires. The stand was much admired, and won the Champion Small Breed prize.

A successful Lincoln Red Cattle Society Autumn Sale was held at Newark Livestock Centre on 22nd October 2011, when the Champion bull, Grovehouse Martin, an ET son of St Fort Essex, made 45oogns. The Champion heifer had come all the way down from Aberdeen, and made 3000gns, with the 72 Bulls and Heifers sold averaging £1500." "

The Hemingby Herd had 3 steers, all sons of Market Stainton Goodman, forward at the Royal Smithfield Show, held on the 2nd & 3rd December 2011 on the East Of England Showground. The judge very much favoured black Angus and Galloway animals in the British Native Sired section, but in the sale, our 3 steers sold exceptionally well, with the best one making 260p kg, the 2nd highest price in the section, and grossing £1695, with the 3 steers grossing £4373.

COMING EVENTS

The Lincoln Red Cattle Society Spring Sale will be held at the Newark Livestock Centre on Saturday 24th March 2012, when it is hoped the Hemingby Herd will have 3 young bulls, plus some in calf heifers forward.