The Drumphin herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus cattle was started in 2002.  The herd comprises 120 spring calving cows and 30 autumn calving cows. 

Foundation stock was mainly sourced from Geordie and Julia Soutar’s Dunlouise herd supplemented by a few cows from John and Kay Hayward’s Lady Croft herd. The highly regarded Dunlouise herd comprises a unique collection of the remaining nine original Native Aberdeen Angus families. 

The Drumphin breeding policy is to produce moderate sized easy fleshing cows which are economical to keep, easy calving with progeny yielding  high quality marbled beef. The aim is to produce cattle which maximise production from grass and require little or no concentrate feeding.

The pure Native cattle from Dunlouise have enhanced the quality of the herd and the type of cow required for the breeding policy. A few cows have also been sourced from Jim Drummond’s Ladywell herd at Dunkeld which are of a similar type. Our experience has been that the “half Native” cow has the quality and eye appeal of the full Native AA but produces calves with greater weight potential. 

Native AA heifers have also recently been acquired from  Mary Hamnett and Gordon Olivers’s Champagne herd and from Patricia Wood’s Spinningloch herd with a view to further enhancing the native genetics of the Drumphin herd.