Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Wild life | 22 September 2016

A good bloodline of Boran beef cattle is the finest legacy a man can bequeath

issue 24 September 2016

Laikipia

  For a rancher north of Mount Kenya, a man’s best legacy might be a good bloodline of Boran beef cattle. For years I wanted to buy a bull from George Aggett. His Borans are wide and deep and they are natural polls, that is, they are born hornless. George’s grandfather settled on the Laikipia plateau in 1920 and for nearly 100 years the Aggetts had kept almost a closed herd.
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