Welcome to Dunlouise Angus

Our traditional Aberdeen Angus have no imported bloodlines. We are working with original British genetics and are currently using bulls which date back at least 50 years; bringing new life to old bloodlines.

Dunlouise – created from the names of our children, Duncan and Louise

And ‘Native Angus‘?

Well, this is a term that was agreed by the Aberdeen Angus Society and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, with Geordie.

Native Angus are those cattle which can be continuously traced back to the origin of the breed, with no imported bloodlines, and are marked on the pedigree and in the herd book “Native bred”. The blueprint of the breed.

The provenance of these original Angus can be traced back 180 years, producing a high quality carcass on grass alone. These moderate framed cattle created the world renown eating quality; taste from the back fat and a buttery texture from the marbling. All of which results in a melt in the mouth experience!

Young cattle will demonstrate early maturity allowing them to calve down at 2 years for those who wish, although we tend to calve more at 2.5 years old as we feel an extra 6 months means that heifers maintain flesh easily through their first lactation and start cycling early after calving.

Breed for conformation, don’t feed for conformation.

Docility is a much underestimated trait. We handle and see our cattle extremely frequently, so over generations troublemakers are identified and removed. This leads to maternal but easy to handle cattle.

Being moderate in size, 650kg is our average mature cow weight, it allows our cattle to utilise their large body depth capacity to convert second rate forage into top tier milk and first rate beef. Crucially, all done only on grass.