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British Simmental cattle, whose origins go back several hundred years to the Simmen valley in Switzerland, were first introduced into the UK in 1970. Since then the breed has grown to be the 4th largest beef breed in the UK and leads the way on the promotion of health in beef breeding cattle. Simmental cattle are probably the most genuine “dual” purpose breed that can be crossed successfully with any other breed and produce cows which are extremely milky, fertile, docile and with great natural mothering instincts. The breed also possesses tremendous terminal genetics, with excellent growth rates and daily live weight gains of in excess of 2kg/day achievable in an intensive beef finishing system (varied results between heifers, steers and bulls). With farmers seeking to run lower input systems and find ways of reducing costs, Simmental cattle are further increasing in popularity due to their ability to rear a calf on milk and not on concentrates. Coupled with high growth rates and carbon efficiencies, the breed offers a competitive edge and increased profitability in the present climate.

🔴⚡️‘BREEDING & FIGURES’ LOT 295 KILBRIDE FARM SERGIO HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!🔴⚡️👌Offerin...
17/10/2026

🔴⚡️‘BREEDING & FIGURES’ LOT 295 KILBRIDE FARM SERGIO HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!🔴⚡️

👌Offering a depth of breeding and some tremendous performance figures is Lot 295 Kilbride Farm Sergio heading to the Stirling Simmental Sale on Monday 19th October.

🙂The breeder says: “Sergio is a big powerful Simmental bull with tremendous figures. His dam Kilbride Farm Fanni 80M is one of our best young cows. She is a big scopy cow with great legs and feet, and a great udder. Sired by Kilbride Farm Jetstream P she is a half sister to Kilbride Farm Prince PP who sold for 28,000 gns. Fanni is top 1% for 400 day weight, terminal and self-replacing indexes and top 5% for milk.”

🙂“Sergio's sire, Hiltonstown Lachlan, is breeding very well with his daughters starting to make their mark in our herd. Lachlan is a trait leader for 400 & 600 day weight and carcase weight, as well as top 5% for milk.”

👇Check out these performance figures, Kilbride Farm Sergio is:

🔴Top 1% for 200, 400, & 600 day Weight
🟠Top 1% for Maternal Cow Weight
🟡Top 5% for Maternal (Milk)
🟢Top Value for Carcase Weight
🔵Top 5% for Eye Muscle Score

✅Lot 295 Kilbride Farm Sergio has been resident in Scotland for over 60 days and TB tested. No further testing should be required.
He has been successfully semen tested and has been vaccinated for Bluetongue.

👀To see Kilbride Farm Sergio’s pedigree and performance information, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website.

🫵Not long to go, but more to come! Keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles and news in the final countdown to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!


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United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
Scottish Simmental Club
Midlands Simmental Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
North East Simmental Club
Midlands Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

Livestream link to Simmental Show at Stirling 11.30am on Sunday 18th October’26
17/10/2026

Livestream link to Simmental Show at Stirling 11.30am on Sunday 18th October’26

Simmental Show at Stirling 11.30am on Sunday 18th October’26

7️⃣⭐️‘SUPER SEVEN’ NEWBIEMAINS BULLS HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!7️⃣⭐️‼️Lovely fresh, frosty...
17/10/2026

7️⃣⭐️‘SUPER SEVEN’ NEWBIEMAINS BULLS HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!7️⃣⭐️

‼️Lovely fresh, frosty morning here in Stirling as we gear up for the sale weekend, and the Simmental Sale on Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling.

💯We’ve featured what looks like a cracking line up of Simmental bulls so far, and there’s more to come! This morning we’re taking a quick snapshot look at the ‘super seven’ entered by the Goldie Family, Newbiemains, Annan, Dumfriesshire.

💥With the Newbiemains team offering “a bull for everyone, from Intermediate bulls down to junior bulls as-well as our first polled bull to sell at Stirling”. The seven bulls are by five different sires: Bighill Palto EX 92; Newbiemains Noble; Carbery Lightening EX 91; Corskie Newry 22; and Islavale Jabba 18 EX 92.

🙂The breeder says: “All of these bulls have good performance figures and are out of EX classified cow families.”

🙂“Included in this bunch is the oldest bull Newbiemains Sapphire who was successfully shown this year winning Overall Junior Champion and Overall Male Champion at the Great Yorkshire Show! This will be the strongest team of bulls we’ve had forward for Stirling Bull Sales so far”.

👇Newbiemains Notes:

🔴All Semen Tested
🟠BVD accredited
🟡 Johnes 1
🔵TB4
🟣Bluetongue Vaccinated

👀To see the Newbiemains entries pedigree and performance information, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website.

🫵Not long to go, but more to come! Keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles and news in the final countdown to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!


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NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
North East Simmental Club
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Midlands Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

16/10/2026
16/10/2026

🟡💥 ‘NINE IN A ROW’ ISLAVALE SIMMENTAL BULLS HEADING TO THE STIRLING SALE ON MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER! 🟡💥

♦️ The posts keep coming and so do the quality Simmental bulls heading to the Stirling Simmental Sale this coming Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling.

🟢 Always bringing the goods, we now feature a cracking ‘nine in a row’ line up from the Islavale herd of WS Stronach, Berryleys Farm, Grange, Keith.

🔴 With a depth of pedigree, out of classified cows, and sporting some impressive performance figures across the traits, the Islavale bulls are by five proven sires:

Bighill Parker EX 90; Islavale McCoist 21 VG 89; Islavale Lucifer 20 EX 95; Coose Lincoln EX 95; and Incheoch Niko 22 (PP VG 87.

👌 Notes to the Islavale entries:
Johnes level 1
BVD Accredited
Semen tested
BT vaccinated
Myostatin free

♦️ We’ll let the video do the talking but to see the Islavale entries pedigree and performance information, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website.

👀 More to come, so keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles and news in the final countdown to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!

United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
Scottish Simmental Club
NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
North East Simmental Club
Midlands Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South West Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

16/10/2026

🟡💥 A TRIO OF HEPPLEWHITE POLLED BULLS HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER! 🟡💥

♦️ Good morning! Next post of the day in advance of the Stirling Simmental Sale due to be held this Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling FK9 4RN.

4️⃣💪 First up from the Hepplewhite herd of John and Olive Trafford, Springfield, Greysouthern, Cockermouth is Lot 314 Hepplewhite Samson 25 (P).

🟠 April 2025 born heterozygous polled Hepplewhite Samson P is sired by homozygous polled Lykke Le Mans PP, and is out of Rooklea Rosette 2nd P, whose sire is Caistor Herminius.
The breeder says that Samson is a deep red bodied bull with tremendous depth of fleshing.

🔵 Next up is April born Lot 336 homozygous polled Hepplewhite Solomon 25 PP who is sired by homozygous polled Highcross Matador PP, and out of Rooklea Helen 2 whose sire is Caistor Herminius.

🟢 The breeder says that Solomon is a pale-coloured bull with ‘stretchy proportions’.

🏵️ The third and final Hepplewhite bull, who is also April born, is Lot 346 homozygous polled Hepplewhite Stanley 25 PP who is also sired by Highcross Matdaor but this time out of heterozygous polled Rooklea Naomi P whose sire is Rooklea Josh P.

🏵️The breeder says that Stanley is a deep red bodied bull with great conformation.

♦️ To see the full pedigree and performance information of the three bulls, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website

👀 Keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles in the last three days running up to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!

United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
Scottish Simmental Club
NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
North East Simmental Club
Midlands Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

CAIRNVIEW FEMALES HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!The Cairnview herd of A J Wilson, Westcroft Fa...
16/10/2026

CAIRNVIEW FEMALES HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!

The Cairnview herd of A J Wilson, Westcroft Farm, Kilwinning, Ayshire will offer two cows with their 2026 born calves at foot, as a Herd Dispersal Sale, and following the Stirling Simmental Bull Sale due to be held on Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling FK9 4RN.

Pictured here is Lot 389, the October 2022 born heterozygous polled Cairnview Rea 8th (P) who is sired by the homozygous polled Slievenagh International (PP), and is out of Cairnview Rea 7th, a Woodhall Ferrari daugther. Cairnview Rea 8th (P) was AI’d to Ballinalare Farm Galaxy on 26th March 2026.

Also pictured is Lot 390, Cairnview Rea 8th (P)’s second born calf, Cairnview Rea 9th (P). January 2026 born and also heterozygous polled, Rea 9th (P) is sired by Blackford Galaxy.

Lot 387 is Cairnview Rea 7th, sired by Woodhall Ferrari, and with her sixth calf, the January 2026 born bull calf Lot 388 Cairnview Toole 26 (P). This calf, got by AI, is by the homozygous polled Wroxall Cocker-Leeky-Soup (PP).

Cairnview Rea 7th was AI’d to Slievenagh International (PP) on 24th May 2026.

To see the full pedigrees and performance information, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website

Keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more profiles in the run up to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!

United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
Scottish Simmental Club
NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
North East Simmental Club
Midlands Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

🟡💥 LOT 369 WESTRIDGE SIMBA HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER! 🟡💥‘♦️ Today’s first post in advance ...
16/10/2026

🟡💥 LOT 369 WESTRIDGE SIMBA HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER! 🟡💥‘

♦️ Today’s first post in advance of the Stirling Simmental Sale due to be held on Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling FK9 4RN is Lot 369 Westridge Simba 25 from Ward Farms (Scotland), West Mains Farm, Newbigging, Carnwath, Lanark.

🔴 May 2025 born Westridge Simba is sired by Coltfield Maestro, who was bought at Stirling in February 2023 for 8000gns, and is out of Westridge Freeman Ritzi 4.

👌 He is semen tested.

🟢 To see Westridge Simba’s full pedigree and performance information, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website.

👀 Keep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles in the last few days running up to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!

Scottish Simmental Club
United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
Midlands Simmental Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
North East Simmental Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South West Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

🟡💥‘FANTASTIC FOUR’ OMORGA BULLS HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!💥🟡♦️We’re getting closer and the...
15/10/2026

🟡💥‘FANTASTIC FOUR’ OMORGA BULLS HEADING TO STIRLING SIMMENTAL SALE, MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER!💥🟡

♦️We’re getting closer and the quality keeps on coming as we profile bulls ahead of the Stirling Simmental Sale being held on Monday 19th October at United Auctions, Stirling FK9 4RN.

4️⃣💪Tonight we’re looking at the ‘fantastic four’ Simmental bulls from the Omorga herd of H J W & J C Moore, Church Road, Coolesker, Beragh, Omagh.

🔴First is Lot 317 Omorga Sven 25. April 2025 born Omorga Sven is sired by Denizes Monty who was bought for 20,000gns at the Stirling October sale in 2022, and is out of Omorga Lark, a Curaheen Drifter daughter. Omorga Sven carries top 10% figures for Calving Ease Daughters; top 15% for Calving Ease Direct; and is +8 for Maternal (Milk).

🟠Next up is Lot 322 Omorga Saturn 25 who is also sired by Denizes Monty and is out of Omorga Heather, a Kilbride Farm Delboy daughter. This bull’s performance figures see him in the breed’s top 5% for Eye Muscle Score, and top 20% for 600 Day Weight.

🔵Bringing something different is Lot 360 Omorga Sinclair who is sired by PHS Polled Worldwide 14W (P) and is out of the Denizes Hamish 16 daughter Omorga Nicola 22. Full of figures, Omorga Sinclair has excellent calving figures being in the breed’s top 10% for Calving Ease Direct, and top 5% for Calving Ease Daughters. Sinclair is +11 for Maternal (Milk) putting him in the breed’s top 5% for this trait.

🟢The fourth and final Omorga bull is Lot 367 Omorga Samurai who is another sired by the 20,000gns Denizes Monty, and is out of Raceview Jessie Whitney.another Kilbride Farm Delboy daughter. Omorga Samurai is in the breed’s top 5% for Eye Muscle Score.

👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿All four Omorga bulls have been resident in Scotland since 19th July 2026 & have passed their post movement TB tests. No further TB testing is required.

🏵️To see the full pedigree and performance information of these ‘fantastic four’ Omorga Simmental bulls, and the full online sale catalogue, then please visit the British Simmental Cattle Society website.

👀TKeep an eye on Simmental Facebook for more sale profiles in the last couple of days running up to the sale on 19th October. There’s more to Simmental!


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NI Simmental Cattle Breeders Club
United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers
Scottish Simmental Club
North East Simmental Club
North West Simmental Breeders' Club
East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

⚡️A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY, 3RD JULY 2027, THE BACKMUIR BEEF EXPERIENCE!⚡️🟠See here the first press release announcing the ...
15/10/2026

⚡️A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY, 3RD JULY 2027, THE BACKMUIR BEEF EXPERIENCE!⚡️🟠

See here the first press release announcing the Backmuir Beef Experience due to be held on 3rd July 2027 by the Simmers family, Backmuir Farm, Keith, Banffshire. It has all the makings of being a major, full on, industry beef event, and with Simmental genetics very much at the heart of it.

Why not follow the Backmuir Beef Experience page and keep an eye on news and updates over the coming months and around this event. There's a charitable element to with funds being raised for the cancer charity Friends of Anchor

Plan ahead and make it a date for your diary, and maybe a Club trip. The Simmental Young Members weekend is already pencilled in to be a part of it!

For those going to the Stirling Bull Sales this weekend and Monday 19th October at United Auctions - Livestock Auctioneers, there will be a Backmuir Beef Experience pop up there, and with promotional leaflets.


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East Anglian Simmental Club
South East Simmental Group
South West Simmental Club
Cornwall Simmental club
Welsh Simmental Club

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