Crofter Mains Shadow Rush is a deep red, short-legged cow, born 27 July 2000

Sire = Silky Oaks Renegade (polled, short-leg, red)

Dam = Jersey dairy cow owned by a neighbour

Named after a phrase in a song by Scottish folk-rock group, Runrig:

In the smallness of one heartbeat, power overthrown

In the oneness of the journey for a homing soul

With the spirits of the mighty since day began

A shadow rushes through the grasslands to the dying sun

(Song - "Healer in Your Heart"; Album - "The Big Wheel")

She was raised by hand from five days old and has turned into the ideal smallfarm cow for us - a great friend and companion, a good representative of the short-leg Dexter type, and a great mother

When bred to a Kenilworth Churchill, a black beefy-type bull, she produced two nice beefy black steers. When bred by AI to Brambledel Redberry Prince, a red UK bull, she produced another beefy steer, this one red in colour 

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