pedigree highland cattle



The Pennygown Highland fold was formed in 1977. It was based on Foundation stock bought from the GlenForsa fold which was founded in 1961, the Glenforsa stock was founded from Killundine stock.
		Donald MacGillivray joined the department of Agriculture at Glenforsa in 1957 and succeeded his late father as manager of Glenforsa in 1966. In 1977 the government policy was to create family run farms from the remnants of government owned farms.
These lands which had initially been acquired for forestation were now being transferred back into the hands of farmers in full agricultural tenancies. All these new tenancies created opportunities for individuals to farm in their own right rather than work as farm managers on the big estates
			Donald has seldom been out of the farming press since his two-year-old bull, Jock of Pennygown, smashed the breed sales record at 20,000 guineas during one of the last Highland breed sales to be held in the old West Highland Auction Mart, Oban in 1992.
			In 1992 Donald MacGillivray became chairman of the Oban Livestock company Limited a venture to bring a new livestock market to Oban and retain a link with the highland cattle society sales within the area - the homeland of the breed. The Agricultural and local farming business community raised £350,000 towards the project, after two and a half years of planning and campaigning the first sale was held on August 11th 1994


these are the bulls we have used for the last few years 1999: Jock the 2nd of Pennygown Ruadari of Iona 2000: Gaisgaech of Earn 2001:Ben Arkle of Scourie 2002:Dugal Prince of Killilan IBR BVD MONITORED Stock of all ages usually available - also cross highland heifers and bullocks - all sired by a Fingask bull. Delivery can be arranged anywhere using our own transport Visitors welcome by arrangement Click here to see farm location Click here to view our accommodation pages
	D&J MacGillivray Pennygown Farm, Aros, Isle of Mull Tel: 01680 300486 e-mail:james@pennygownfarm.co.uk