For Lincoln Red Cattle read on:- 
For 100% & RBST Lincoln Reds: scroll down.

Lincoln Reds have been on St Fort for 47 years
A hardy tough breed 

Established 1960 
Performance recorded for EBVs, "Estimated Breeding Values" by Signet.
The Herds Sire average EBV is LR37 , whilst the Female replacement average EBV of LR 32. This merited the SIGNET EXCEL CLUB their AWARD OF MERIT.  The whole herd  EBV (average) is LR32

Of All the British Native Breeds the Lincoln Red has these remarkable characteristics:-

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* Highest Growth Rate
* Highest Food conversion rate
* Superb temperament
* Good calving ease
* Ability to winter out
* Produces the very finest of meat from top grade 
   carcasses
* An excellent choice as a Terminal Sire for crossing.

Did you know that the Argentinian Short Horn Society used Lincoln Reds ( including some from the St Fort Herd) to cross with their Short Horns to improve their breed characteristics ?

Did you know that Lincoln Red and Lincoln Red crosses have won many awards for best carcass ? 

Come and see the Herd at St Fort; to make an appointment please use the "Contact us" button on the home page.

We usually have Lincoln Red Bulls for sale and occasionally a few heifers.

*  We have recently exported a Cow and a maiden Heifer to new
     members of the Lincoln Cattle Society in Northern Ireland.
*  We have sold Bulls to many parts of Scotland and Ireland for use as
     a Terminal Sir for crossing with other cattle with very positive
     feedback  and praise for the resulting offspring and ease of
     management.
*  The St Fort prefix is can be found in most top herds in the UK. 
*  St Fort has a long successful list of Show winners and Supreme
     Champions both at the Royal Show and the Royal Highland Show.

 St Fort Elspeth.
Supreme Champion Royal Highland Show 2000 & 2005 

FOR SALE NOW - we have two bulls which will be entered for the March sale at |Newark (details to follow)

Lincoln Red Cattle Society Sale at Newark.  March 2010

This Years News .  St Fort Joker  ET transplant from Brooks Thora was sold to the Harrington Hall herd, Lincolnshire.  

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CURRENT STOCK BULLS.

St Fort Guv,nor
St Fort Harry

The St Fort Herd of Rare Breed Lincoln Red Cattle
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A brief historical summary of 100% Lincoln Reds.



In 1895 The Lincoln Red Association, ( the for-runner of the Lincoln Red Cattle Society) was formed.  It was the aim of the association to "breed each succeeding generation, better cattle than before"

An early improvement was to poll the cattle which was done partly with the use of a red Aberdeen Angus bull.  In 1977 the "Breed development Scheme"was introduced.  This allowed continental blood to be introduced into the breed, under strict controls and inspections so that uniformity, colour, temperament and other established qualities were not lost to the breed.
This has resulted in the excellent commercial cattle that we see in the breed today. 

However the RBST (Rare Breed Survival Trust) recognised that along with other native cattle breeds, the numbers of Lincoln Red Cattle free from continental blood was diminishing and therefore added these cattle to their Rare Breeds Register.

Hence all Lincoln Red Cattle with 100% Lincoln Red Blood and have the "P" letter preceeding their herd number qualify as Rare Breed Cattle.

The St Fort 100% Cattle

By the year 2000 our own pool of 100% females had dwindled to only four cows. We decided that for both our own blood lines and the integrity of the herd we should reverse this trend and revive the number of these cattle.  This meant putting our 100% cows to 100% bulls either by breeding our own bulls or by AI.
Unfortunately, only two of these cows, R31 and P10 went on to produce heifer calves and so in 2004 when an opportunity arose at the Lincoln Red Autumn sale at Louth we purchased Brooks Thora 119th; whos grandsire happened to be St Fort Kondor.  She fetched the highest price any Lincoln Red Female has ever reached.

The Foundation Herd

St Fort Northolm R31. P16775

One of the Northolm dynasty.  Her great grand dam was Frisby Northolm, and her great grand sire was one of our famous bulls from the seventies St Fort Xmoor.
She shares the same blood lines as St Fort Northolm J60 (100%) who bred a number of outstanding stock bulls including St Fort Rambo, whose grandsons St Fort Dundee (in Ayrshire), St Fort Dickens (in Lincolnshire ), St Fort Essex ( in Lincolnshire), and St Fort Guv,nor and St Fort Jonathon (both at home as stock bulls).

R 31 was naturally polled, she was a good breeder producing eleven live calves one of which was St Fort Urchin who was sold to Northern Ireland. Allegedly "Urchin" was later taken over on an open boat, tied by his halter to the mast, to Ratlin Island off the coast of Antrim where he ran with all the cows on the island.

St Fort Hetty P10

St Fort Hetty descends from Anwick Hetty 101st and Cockerington Jonathon, the first Licoln Red bull purchased by St Fort.

Hetty,s are still prominent in our herd.  Hetty P 15604 was a prize winner at the Royal Highland show in 1995.
At present she has three descendants in the Rare Breed Herd.  Her two daughters are by Donnington Trooper and Whitehouse Donald.  They have inherited their dams rich ruby coat.
Her bull calf, St Fort Eskimo is polled as are his four 100% daughters.  Eskimo has also been used on some non 100% Lincoln Reds in our herd.

 Brooks Thora 119th.

Brooks Thora is a handsome quality cow.  When she was purchased she was already in calf and had a heifer calf at foot, both by Cowbridge Ambassadour (pedigree not 100%) .  She went on to have a very good bull calf, St Fort Harry who is now one of our stock Bulls.  He has his dams excellent conformation, deep girth and evenly and easily fleshed.
She has since produced two promising bull calves by Acthorpe Nelson (100%)
St Fort Joker, who is now being used as our Stock Bull on the 100% females, and St Fort Jumbo who was sold to Northeren Ireland. 

Our aim is to produce a small herd of Rare Breed Lincoln Red Cattle that can compete in the commercial market and also enable us to sell a number of animals to specialist breeders.   We also hope to be able to contribute to the survival of these wonderful cattle.