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Registration ‘mix-up’ leads to Limousin identity crisis

Passports for a number of Limousin bulls have been withdrawn.
Passports for a number of Limousin bulls have been withdrawn.

The true identity of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Limousin bulls is in doubt this week following the withdrawal of passports from dozens of animals that can be traced back to Dunkeld pedigree cattle breeder, Stuart Fotheringham’s Ballinloan herd.

The registration crisis surrounding Mr Fotheringham’s cattle now affects many breeders in the UK who have either bought Ballinloan-bred bulls or semen from Ballinloan Jaegerbomb which was at the centre of the original registration crisis last year.

The problem escalated this week when the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) withdrew the passports from another 61 cattle bearing Ballinloan prefixes because of “errors relating to the registration of either the date of birth and/or the parentage of the animals concerned”.

Breeders have now been advised by the British Limousin Cattle Society (BLCS) to “consider their position carefully and take legal advice” before considering buying any Ballinloan livestock.

The problem first surfaced last year when it was discovered the dam of the 25,000gns champion sire, Ballinloan Jaegerbomb, had mistakenly been recorded as Ballinloan Fruttella.

DNA testing later confirmed the dam as Ballinloan Geneva.

However, despite the error, BLCS lifted a brief suspension of the bull’s use and allowed sales of semen straws to continue. It is understood Mr Fotheringham is now under investigation by the BCMS and Trading Standards departments of two councils.

Mr Fotheringham was not available for comment last night.

However Lancashire farmer Ian Handley, who bought Jaegerbomb to use on his Gunnerfleet Limousins herd in Lancashire, said he was “utterly devastated” that the bull’s progeny can no longer be sold.

A message on the Gunnerfleet Facebook page added: “Our heart(s) go out to other breeders caught up in the suspension.

“There seems no light at the end of the tunnel.”