Summary
- Top $7000, av $4250
- Sold 38, 76pc clearance
WESTERN Queensland opened its bull selling account at Blackall on Tuesday when the Bredhauer family held its annual Hereford and Charbray sale at the Blackall Saleyards with 50 bulls for sale.
Despite reservations thanks to ongoing drought conditions, 22 bid cards were given out and there was healthy competition for most lots on offer.
New clients from the Blackall district, Mac Allan and sons Danny and Murray, were in the market for new genetics to put over their maiden Simbrah heifers and took four Charbray bulls home to Erne.
Their purchases included the top priced Acton Jodi, a poll bull tipping the scales at 788kg at 23 months of age, and commanding a price of $7000.
Sired by Moongool E265, he had an eye muscle measurement of 120cm and a scrotal circumference of 35cm.
Their other three Charbray bulls were purchased for $3000, $4500 and $5500.
Robert and Robyn O’Sullivan were also enthusiasts of the Charbray genetics on offer, travelling up from Nungil at Charleville to purchase three bulls for up to $4500.
They competed with Ben Simpson from Thistlebank Grazing at Aramac, who finished his day with four bulls.
There was a 94 per cent clearance of the Charbrays on offer, giving the Bredhauers an average of $4500.
Sixty-six per cent of the Herefords offered were sold under the hammer for a $4000 average.
A top price of $5000 was paid four times, twice by Bevan and Julie Hauff from Colart, Blackall, once by Cameron Crozier from Highlands at Tambo, and once by Greg Glover and family at Prospect, Tambo.
Among the Hauff’s purchases were the hefty 916kg Lambert Judge, a son of Talbalba Yiddish, and Lambert Joslin, weighing in at 860kg and sired by Talbalba Zombie.
The Glover family finalised their day out with a total of four Hereford bulls.
Scott Bredhauer said that considering many of their clients didn’t have many female breeders left, it had been a good result.
The sires on offer had all been born and raised in drought conditions.
Scott said the stud had purchased a number of stud Charbray heifers with calves at foot from Colinta with the aim of expanding their numbers to cater for increased demand.
Like many, they’re hoping for a break in the drought so that can be a reality in 2016.