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The Hereford Cattle Society (formerly the Hereford Herd Book Society, also known as the Hereford Breed Society) is the British breeding authority on Hereford Cattle, and the originator of the breed's herd book. Founded in 1878 as the Hereford Herd Book Society (under the patronage of Queen Victoria), the Herd Book for the breed was open between ...
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Thomas Lewis founded his Hereford herd at The Woodhouse, Shobdon, Herefordshire in 1822, [2] 24 years before the publication of the first Hereford Cattle Herd Book. Many animals were exported from The Woodhouse Herd especially to the United States of America in the boom years of the 1880s, [3] although Hereford cattle had first been introduced to the country in either 1816 or 1817. [4]
The Hereford is a British breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England. [3] It was the result of selective breeding from the mid-eighteenth century by a few families in Herefordshire, beginning some decades before the noted work of Robert Bakewell .
[4]: 611 A breed society, the National Hereford Hog Registry Association, was formed in that year under the sponsorship of the Polled Hereford Cattle Registry Association, [4]: 611 [6]: 394 and a herd-book was opened. [7]: 198
The only requirement for registration as a Fullblood in both North American herd book registers is that ancestors should have "full French ancestry", [21] or trace directly to the "Herd Book Limousin in France". [22] In Australia and New Zealand the French Pure herd book classification requires that animals carry "100% Pure French genetics". [23]
He established in about 1842 the Herd Book of Hereford Cattle, which he edited until 1860 [2] Eyton was married in 1835 to Elizabeth Frances Slaney, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Robert Aglionby Slaney MP. She pre-deceased him by ten years. [3] He was a justice of the peace (JP) and a deputy lieutenant of Shropshire. [3]
Other British breeds, mainly Hereford, were later used. Much of the development was done by one breeder, R.L. Atkinson. [5] In 1956 breeders decided to focus on red cattle only; the Droughtmaster name proposed by Atkinson was adopted. A breed society, the Droughtmaster Stud Breeders' Society, was formed, and a herd-book was started. [6]: 721 [5]