History
History The original Studdolph herd was established in 1946, but only one line of the original British Polled Cattle still remain here. Everything else was sold at a dispersal sale in 1979. During the next ten years there were only a few pedigree cattle at Studdolph, more Herefore crosses but in the early nineties, we introduced new pedigree Poll bloodlines into the herd buying cattle from the Dendor, Lowesmoor, Costhorpe and Mandalay herds. Stock bulls have of course played an important part in our breeding programme, carefully selected to suit the females in order to look after length, good confirmation, muscle and legs. Three Dendor bulls have been used, one Costhorpe and our present four year old Bosa 1 Arnold, who has really come into his own in 2008, winning the Beef Interbreed Competition at Pembrokeshire County Show, his only time shown. Many home bred bulls have been used and mention must be made of Glenvale 1 Michael who gave us some exceptional heifers and he was also the sire of Glenvale 1 Daniel, who proved himself for Mr Michael Clark at Lowesmoor.
We have always been proud of our females and two home bred heifers won the Interbreed Naive Breed Pairs Competition at the Prembrokeshire County Show in 2008.
Most of the bulls are sold to local farmers at 12-15 Months of age and it is our policy to give a choice to every customer that comes along and not retain the best for showing purposes. We have many faithful customers who always return to buy a new stock bull when required and many bulls from our breeding are still going strong at over 10 years old.
We always support most of our local shows but do not venture very far afield except the Royal Welsh Show, the Poll Show and Kington Show, but with a young breeder in the family it looks like as if we will have to travel a bit further. Non has established her own herd now with 8 animals and we were delighted that she was allowed to use the Studdolph prefix which was once used for the Horned cattle.
