Walnutlawn Farms

16/07/2025

WALNUTLAWN PG BERKLEY

New release at Semex
✅3760 LPI
✅14 Conf
✅89 kg Fat

Berkley is the latest sire to be released at Semex from the Briar family. His dam is Parfect Breony NC x Briar VG88 x 10 gens VG/EX. Unfortunately Breony will remain unscored as we lost her approximately 40 days into her first lactation. She calved in and was doing reasonably well but it was evident she was not right, after many visits from the vet and some good days and bad days, we sent her to the University of Guelph Animal Hospital to see if we could turn her around as we had very high hopes for her! Unfortunately she had an abscess from one side of her abdomen to the other, the vet told us she had no chance to turn around so we were forced to put her down. A tough pill to swallow for sure! We have many sons and daughters from her and I am a firm believer in full pedigrees with no holes. So I understand for that reason, Berkley may not be for everybody but it is what it is. As a result of the hole in the pedigree Berkley is Breony's only son who will be released, but we decided to still work with her daughters. It is a little bit tough as honestly the hole on paper bothers me, but it doesn't diminish the fact that I know she was a good cow, I am quite certain she would not have had a problem getting to at least 85 points in her first lactation. On paper there is a hole, always will be, but she was the kind of cow I would like daughters from. Berkley's full sister Ambrose Bling *RC 3818 LPI 14 Conf has been IVFd extensively and has many extremely high pregnancies. She will be an impact cow for us and Semex for sure. She is now pregnant and should be alot fun to calve in as she is an absolute powerhouse!
Breony was a low stature but very wide cow, known as "Little Breony". Different than the other Briar daughters due to her smaller frame with less stature. Due to this and the look of Berkley's full sisters I would assume that he will sire daughters that are very powerful, probably thicker heavier b***d with tremendous legs.

03/07/2025

SUMMER EX95 and LYNZI EX95 family members selling!

We have consigned 5 robot trained fresh cows to fill your Fall incentive days

02/07/2025

Congratulations Butlerview!

Walnutlawn Bullseye Sadie-ET just sold for $162,500 at the International Intrigue as a complete package including transfers and pregnancies. This VG-87-1YR-CAN female tied for #1 Conformation Cow in Canada and claimed 1st Junior 2-Year-Old at the Northeast Spring National 2025.

See complete sale results and analysis here - https://www.thebullvine.com/news/million-dollar-madness-rocks-international-intrigue-sale/

Ferme Blondin, Walnutlawn Farms

01/07/2025

Lot 16 International Intrigue Sale

LOA-DE-MEDE WL HEARTLAND SABLE

Daughter of Canada's #1 Conf cow (tied) BULLSEYE SADIE VG87 2yr MAX. Full pedigree through legends like Summer, Sue, Splendor and Shower

With type at +15 CAN and +3.18 US, she will make elite type offspring on both sides of the border!

Word is that Sadie looks tremendous! Jump in on this branch of the family right at the beginning

30/06/2025

Beautiful LIBERTY daughter

𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗫𝗬!
Many have been asking for pics of the Walnutlawn LIBERTY calves and here is one of his very oldest and boy is she pretty!

𝗟𝗼𝘁 #𝟭𝟭𝟲 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗚𝗘
Winter Calf
LIBERTY X VG-88 Unix X VG-87 Doorman X Rosiers BLEXY Goldwyn-EX-97-3E

Walnutlawn LIBERTY has no Lambda in his pedigree!
She SELLS in the International Intrigue Sale on July 2nd at Butlerview Farm in Chebanse, Illinois

27/06/2025

Classification results from this week's visit...

1st LACTATION
🟢Destination Love 86 (88MS) Full sister to LIBERTY at Blondin and dam of LOVESTORY 3726 LPI 18 CONF coming soon at Semex
🟢Lambda Lipstick 86
🟢Havenofear Brio 86
🟢Havenofear Elle 85
🟢Alligator Iceland 85
🟢Fuel Julia 85
🟢Lambda Starburst 85
🟢Sidekick Leah 85
🟢Chief 84
🟢Angle, Bullseye, Breakshot 83
🟢Lambda 81
-Average 84.4

2nd LACTATION
🔵Sidekick Britta 88
🔵Sidekick Parker 88
🔵Chief Swinter 88
🔵Ranger Brava 87 dam of BARDOWN at Semex
🔵Delta Joy 86
🔵Ranger Liv 85

3rd LACTATION
🔴Alligator Snowflake 92
🔴Alligator Blessing 90
🔴Barolo Belair 90
🔴Mirand Sudoku 90
🔴Chief Sweetness 90
🔴Alligator Scarlet 87
🔴Kingboy Elsa 87
🔴Tropic Bermuda 87

MULTIPLE E
🟡Crushabull Havana 92 2E
🟡Pharo Brazilia 91 4E
🟡Mirand Shawna 90 2E
🟡Crushabull Suelynn 90 2E

19/06/2025

This week we received genomics on a high type polled calf from the Briar family that we think is pretty cool!

WALNUTLAWN LEYSER BAZILLION

Leyser PP x Blakely Brynn x Alligator Briar

The combination of 3755 LPI 18 Conf & polled places her among the top ranks of the breed

https://lactanetgen.ca/query/summary.php?breed=HO&country=CAN&sex=F®num=15313454

18/06/2025

14/06/2025

I am often asked "what is Briar up to?" so figure it is time for an update.

Long story short, Briar is pregnant, dry, roughing it on pasture and as you can see in the picture, hanging out wherever it is the muddiest.

Our plan was to flush her extensively, sell a bunch of embryos and make alot of daughters. My thinking was, it would be nice to get her EX but given the choice, I would prefer more daughters over calving her again and getting her EX. Unfortunately Briar's flush results were quite ordinary so the only embryos sold were 3 Ambrose exported to Tomas Lindquist in Australia, fortunately he ended up 3 live heifer calves! We also were unable to get as many pregnancies as hoped. However in the next couple weeks our first calves will start arriving from her flushes last lactation, sired by Leyser PP, Johnboy, Oli and Lambda. Briar herself caught first sevice and is due late September to sexed Anahita.
Her oldest daughters are now fresh 2nd lactation...
LAMBDA BEYONCE is fresh at Butlerview and by the accounts I hear she looks tremendous! I am looking forward to seeing her out again this Fall!
RANGER BRAVA fresh a few months in her 2nd lactation has developed into a silky open ribbed, dairy machine with exceptional udder quality. She is a cow that I call "a cow of the future" as I believe the best modern cows can milk high volumes for much longer lactations than is current practice, and Brava will be given the opportunity to do this. I am keen to see what kind of kg milk she can produce over this lactation.
RANGER BRANDY is very close to drying off after her long first lactation where she will end up just short of 20,000 kg milk. "Robot ready" is a term thrown around alot these days and in our barn Brandy is as good it gets for a "robot cow" and it all comes down to one thing... "she loves the robot and the robot loves her."
SIDEKICK BRITTA is fresh just over a month in her 2nd lactation. In my opinion she is an impressive Jr 3 yr old and our best type cow currently in the barn. She is a special one to us as she combines Briar and Summer into 1 package!
LAMBDA BRIGHT is at Progenesis, I am not exactly sure at what stage she is at in her first lactation, but I know she is pregnant. Horacio Larrea or Carl Barclay can you update where she is at?

Briar and her daughters have been a real blessing to us! Briar's exceptional, one of a kind temperament has been passed on to her daughters and they make farming fun.

06/06/2025

Sable's deep open rib and wide muzzle remind me alot of Sadie as a calf!
More than just a calf that will give you some fun in the showring, she should be a heifer that can breed on as well.
Thank you to John and Heather for their exceptional care and development of Sable.

20/05/2025

It's dryoff time for Lambda Sonya VG85 2yr, and wow did she ever develop from beginning to the end of her 1st lactation!

3521 LPI 14 Conf

Lambda
x Silvio Sonata EX91 USA
x Cinderdoor Spring VG87
x Summer EX95 ☀️

Daughters x Ambrose, Zippy and Johnboy

10/05/2025

Even the morning after a Leafs OT loss everybody is all smiles when a calf like this arrives!!

Beyonce x Johnboy heifer 🔥