ACS Herd Competition 2026 Rules.

1) The competition is open to any fully paid-up member who own at least one pedigree Albion.

2) Each entrant has a choice of including a video up to a maximum of 3 minutes and /or photos of their stock. This can be accompanied by a written (text, WhatsApp or email) or spoken (video recorded i.e. WhatsApp) account of the breeding policy. 

3)  The photographs/ videos must have been taken in 2026.

4) It is vital that every photo, video or text is labelled with your herd prefix.

For example; a photo maybe labelled ‘Prefix senior cow’, or ‘Prefix bulling heifer’. There is no need to name the animals, but the prefix is imperative. If you are photographing a bought-in animal, please still label with ‘prefix herd’ but then add, in brackets, the prefix where the animal was bred.

5) Your photos should show off the conformation of the animal, maybe from both sides and from behind.

6) Entries close: 20th September, 2026.

7) Although photographs /videos can be taken any time in 2026 up to 20th September, the window for sending your entries in is:

1st September to 20th September, 2026.

8) GDPR: the judges will delete all contact numbers once the competition has been won and awarded.  (However, this year one of the judges is ACS secretary.)

9) If any person features in your photos or videos, please gain their permission to be in the latter, as the ACS may show the top entries or use photos on ACS media.

10) Please say if you do not wish for your entry to be used by ACS in any way. (ACS is not intending to show your entries publicly but there may be the exceptional photo ACS would like to use & it might be interesting to show the winning entries at the open weekend.)

​11) This year’s judges are the winners of the 2025 herd Competition which was the Speckles Herd with Susannah & Keith Mannerings.

Details of where to send entries: 

WhatsApp: 07733 419685    Email: srmannerings@gmail.com