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601 Papatotara Road
Tuatapere RD, 9691

WESTWOOD

SHORTHORN

he Erskine Family have been everyone’s ideas. In the 1930s a mob the steers doing a carcass weight of at
Tfarming in Papatotara for four of all sorts of cows and a Shorthorn least 285kgs and the cull bulls doing
generations with the original block bull were purchased. But it wasn’t a carcass weight of at least 325kgs.
leased in 1885 then purchased from until the early 1950s that a mob In the mid-1990s Anita decided she
the crown. In 1997 and 2016 another of Purebred Shorthorn cows were would like to have a Shorthorn stud,
three blocks were added. It is a family purchased at a clearing sale. This was so some of the commercial AI bred
farm that has been passed down the start of the purebred Shorthorns cattle were inspected for registration
through the generations, with three at Westwood and it is a breed that and some stud cows from the Austin’s
siblings running it at the moment, has served us well. All cattle that are were purchased. Over the years cows
which can cause a few challenges, but not kept as a replacement or sold have been purchased from a variety
we all get along very well. Decisions for breeding, are sent to the works of studs. With both the stud and
are made by everyone putting in their between the age of 18 and 21 months, commercial mob the aim is to have
penny’s worth, then you mix it up with the aim to have cull heifers doing easy doing cattle that will thrive in all
and the result is often a mixture of a carcass weight of at least 250kgs, conditions.

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