Calf born on Remembrance Sunday is named Poppy.....

Poppy the calf was born on Armistice Day at Croxteth Hall Country Park Farm Liverpool

The Gloucester heifer joins 300 rare breed females in the country

A calf born in the early hours of Remembrance Day was named Poppy, as a tribute to the fallen.

The heifer, a Gloucester, was born at Croxteth Home Farm in Croxteth Country Park.

There are only 300 other breeding females of this breed in the UK, whose milk is used to make Double Gloucester cheese.

Lisa Gunn, the farm manager, said: “We have had a lot of visitors in the last two weeks waiting for her to be born.

“A little girl came in, desperate to see her. We get a lot of visitors who know the animals, and some visit every weekend.”

This is the Trudy’s fourth calf, and her first daughter.

Lisa said: “We’re made up she’s had a heifer. Trudy was artificially inseminated on Burn’s Night, and born on Remembrance Day.”

Croxteth Home Farm has 65 cows, and has many particularly rare breeds, such as the Gloucester which is listed as ‘vulnerable’ by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

The farm also has sheep, pigs, horses and goats, and hosts school trips and visitors.