Fun Facts At the turn of the century, on the Thologolong property in Australia, there was an Aberdeen (Black) Angus breeder by the name of Peter Sutherland who purchased a neighbor's Shorthorn cow to use as the family milk cow. It is said that she was roan in color, and was chosen due to her exceptional udder. Each year she would be bred to one of Mr. Sutherland's prized Angus bulls and each year she would give birth to a grey calf. Mrs. Sutherland nicknamed these calves (11 of them) her"mullberries". Mr. Sutherland felt it a disgrace to have the grey cattle among his beloved Angus but his wife persisted in keeping them. As the years went by, neighbors started noticing that the "greys" seemed to do better than the Angus and neighbor Mervin Gadd purchased a grey bull along with one of Mr. Sutherland's Angus bulls. He liked the greys so much that he also began breeding them up from his own Angus. When Peter Sutherland died, his herd was to be dispersed in1932. However Helen Sutherland, a daughter-in-law, saw the value in the greys and told her father of the eight cows remaining, "If you don't come home with them, I'll be leaving!". He succeeded and Helen began a strict breeding program based on breeding the best to the best. The cattle were given the name "Murray Grey" for the area that the Tholologong property sat along the Upper Murray River Valley.
Soon, Murray Grey's were in high demand from butchers who saw the quality in the beef produced. In the 1950's the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society of Australia was formed and in the 1970's the first animals were imported to the United States. The Murray Grey breed continues to grow today...
Pictured below is: Helen Sutherland
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Links You cannot get a Murray Grey from breeding a Shorthorn cow to an Angus bull today...it was only the result of that ONE mating that produced them.
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