The Hawkey’s have farmed at Tregolls since 1949.
In 1990 the three brothers decided to go their own way, the farm was split into three and We took over 200 acres at Higher Tregolls. As the name implies this is a LFA status and in permanent pasture, situated in North Cornwall Nr. Wadebridge.
Originaly the suckler cow herd was split simply by calving period, we took the last lot to calve. A mixture of Limo, blondes, Hereford cross and Belgian Blue cross, on which we used a Limo Bull, later we tried a Blonde bull. Terrific cross!!
Just by chance at a local market Keith bought a Simmental bull - Washaway Jason 18 months old. We were so impressed with his calves, their growth rates and how much quieter they were to handle, that when the opportunity came to visit Mr Roy Loud’s Taurus Herd we were off like a shot! The visit was very inspiring and prompted us to go to the Bristol sales the following Saturday.
So in May 2004 we purchased our first pedigree heifers and a cow with bull calf at foot. ( He was the first bull we sold for breeding).
In January 2005 we bought 2 heifers from Mr. & Mrs Christian, Woolcombe Valley Lucy And Woolcombe Valley Laura.
We’re really into this now! So we started to pick top bulls for AI. As a result in April 2006 Laura produced an outstanding bull calf by Starline Klassik. We called him SowennaTamar.
As a yearling Tamar was first in the young bull class at the Royal Cornwall Show and we had second with Sowenna Tiger in the same class, he was sold after the show to a local farmer and he has had great success with him.
Tamar is now our herd sire and has produced some very impressive progeny.
We took him and three of his sons to the National SimmentalShow at Wadebridge in 2010.
And he won best Cornish bred bull and best S W Bull.
His three sons all out of heifers! Were 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the young bull class.
Sowenna Warlock 2ND Sold
Sowenna Wizard 3RD Sold
To top it all Tamar not only produces stock pleasing to the eye he has also boosted our ebv’s in the herd and in the same year as the young bulls above he gave us a heifer with the top Self replacing and Terminal index in the country Sowenna Willow.
K C & P Hawkey Sowenna Simmentals
Phone: Keith: 079710061888 , Home: 01208 813893 Piers: 07969032495
Emaill: sowenna@btinternet.co,
