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The Herd
Current Stock Bulls
TwoMills run Riggit Galloway, Galloway (GCS) and belted Galloway pedigree stock sires
Stonehouse Jack Snipe
A very well bred Red Riggit Galloway bull. By Champion Hatherland Finlay and out of Stonehouse Firecrest, a Clifton Toffee Apple Daughter
Bomber of Hindhope
GCS young bull by Mountbenger Commander and TwoMills second time buying a stock bull from the Hindhope Herd. He will be used over a small nucleus herd of black and red pedigree GCS cows and importantly over White Riggit foundation cows. He was named by the breeders Tim and Tom Elliot after the Late Brian Hislop who farmed just outside Langholm. A passionate and skilled rugby player around Scotland and the North of England who was nicknamed Bomber. Tim considered it a fitting tribute to the man
Derwentdale Red Campbell
Deep wild red Belted Galloway stock bull who has produced some fabulous well marked and quiet calves without assistance. By Polbae Lenin and a Tobergill Zeus Grandson and with Mochrum, Woolpit and Mar-Pine Perry as GGGS (red background)
Hatherland Leonids
Black Riggit bull calf bought at weaning from the Hatherland Herd.
Very impressive and bought as a young calf for his conformation, lineage , dark "Park type" head clearly showing the white tear drops and white diamonds on his flanks and black to balance off future offspring (he does carry a wild red gene also)
By Craig Dougal and out of a very impressive show cow Sherberton Dotterel who always does her calves well. Dotterel is a Clifton Firethorn Daughter (see the blog "where my interest started"). Photo from when Leonids was a calf and will be updated shortly.
Very impressive and bought as a young calf for his conformation, lineage , dark "Park type" head clearly showing the white tear drops and white diamonds on his flanks and black to balance off future offspring (he does carry a wild red gene also)
By Craig Dougal and out of a very impressive show cow Sherberton Dotterel who always does her calves well. Dotterel is a Clifton Firethorn Daughter (see the blog "where my interest started"). Photo from when Leonids was a calf and will be updated shortly.
Past Stock Bulls
Dunay Tavish
A lovely quiet, medium sized Belted bull Mochrum Kingfisher Son. His Daughter TwoMills Bess is retained in the herd and will go to the bull in 2022
Hatherland Finlay
Hatherland Finlay joined me from the Stonehouse Herd and is now with the Ashdown Forest. Finlay has left some impressive calves in all three herds. Finlay won the Riggit Galloway classes at the World Galloway Congress in Dumfries in 2016 and in 2019 won the Any Other Native Breed bull at the Royal Norfolk Show. Stonehouse Jack Snipe a Finlay Son is still in the TwoMills Herd
Rufus Hindhope
A real chance find. Red bull from a new genetic line. Hindhope used a black bull Demesne Adam bred by Graham Noble that threw two red heifers and one bull to the Hindhope cows (some must have been unrecognised red gene carriers). Demesne Adam likley had great great parentage to a Globe bull with red genes. Rufus came to TwoMills as a weaned calf and has since had much success throwing red Riggit calves at Stonehouse. he is now at Creesside serving black cow
Sherberton Border Reiver
TwoMills original foundation stock bull with retained heifers in the herd and several bulls sold to herds across the country. By Clifton Firethorn
Stonehouse Blackbird
"Park Type" Riggit galloway bull with length and a tight underline, Blackbird sired some impressive Riggit and White Riggit heifers
Two Mills Julian Spicer
Named in memory of the Late Mr Julian Spicer f Newe House, Pakenham who so loved my Belties. This bull is being exported to Northern ireland to be stock bull for Mr Hugh Reid. A red gene carrier , we watch with interest to see the progeny from h black and red Belted cows
Two Mills Reivers Boy
Sold to Maggie Gordon as a bull calf, this super bull has had a long breeding career at first Barfil, then Cardona Herd and now with Derek Darvill. So pleased his gentics have been used so widely across cows in his native Scotland
Two Mills Reivers Lucky Boy
Lucky was sold as a young bull to Jimmy Doherty of Jimmy's Farm. Not only a local farmer but also President of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust
Patriarchs
I suppose you might say this is where my interest first started in the Galloways...
Clifton Firethorn
This is the photograph and the bull that got me hooked on Riggit Galloways. I was lucky to see him alive on Dartmoor in the Sherberton Herd and my first stock bull Sherberton Border Reiver was by him. A classic "Clifton" nmoiled face and the trademark white diamonds on the flanks. One of the greatest attractions for me with the breed as it was resurrected after 200+ years was the fact you couldn't just buy them you had to breed your own!
Ginger of Nether Rusko
Such a fabulous bull and responsible for some outstanding red Galloway cattle including Grandsire on the dam side to many TwoMills calves including one heifer exported to Germany.
Matriarchs
Melkridge Red Lady with two Riggit Daughters
My original Foundation cow. Red Lady was out of two Mochrum White Galloways and still has two Daughters in the herd 2014 Summer Jamboree and 2015 TwoMills Red Lady
Melridge Melody
White Galloway
Foxworthy Lucky Stripe
A senior cow who bore Riggit Galloway calves selling to many herds including the Cardona Herd
Wolsingham Berry
White Galloway cow
Sherberton Firechild
Two Mills Summer Jamboree
Fabulous Red Riggit Galloway. Her January 2020 Daughter White Riggit TwoMills Elka is retained in the herd and to go to GCS bull Bomber of Hindhope
Two Mills Red Lady
Full Sister to Jamboree but a larger cow and thicker coat. Her 2021 red heifer calf will be one half of my Son Freddie's newly formed Fen Herd
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