Vendors at the Queensland multi-vendor Dorper and White Dorper Ram and Ewe sale in St George on Saturday were delighted to see 81 rams sell for the solid average of $1690.
48 buyers registered for the sale and the strong demand was reflected in an overall clearance rate of 98 per cent.
In the breakdown, 48 Dorper rams averaged $1660 while 33 White Dorper rams averaged $1733.
The top price of $3800 was paid by St George’s Murray Beardmore for a Dorper ram offered by the Smit family, Smit Dorpers, St George.
The ram was the only purchased for Mr Beardmore who was represented at the sale by Anthony Hyland, GDL St George (pictured second from left).
The second top price ram was a Dorper ram offered by Shorty and Julie Swilks, Tinalong Dorpers, Surat.
With bloodlines going back to Bellevue and Amarula, the 30-month-old ram sold to Paul and Gaye White and family, Riverview, Surat, for $3400.
The Whites purchased a total of seven lots for an average of $2085, including a second Tinalong Dorper ram for $3100.
First time vendors, the Kirkby family, Amarula Dorpers, Gravesend, NSW, also enjoyed strong demand for their rams with Amarula White 150708 selling to the Jukes family, Tregoning, Morven, for $3100.
The Jukes family chased quality throughout the sale to put together a line of eight rams averaging $2562.
The volume buyer of the sale was the Brosnan family, Ellaville, Thallon who purchased ten rams for an average of $1070.
Also putting together a good line of Dorper rams was Roslin Grazing, Mungallala who purchased eight for an average of $1612.
Cameron Hudson, Maranoa Downs, Mitchell, purchased six rams averaging $1666 while the Rodger family, Chinchilla, purchased seven ewes from John and Ann Waters’ Killara Stud at Wellcamp for an average of $528.
Overall there was very strong demand for the ewe offering. Nine Dorper ewes averaged $1455 while nine White Dorper ewes averaged $533.
Amarula Dorpers sold the top price ewe of the sale, offloading a station mated Dorper ewe for $3200 to Tinalong Dorpers for $3200.
Tinalong Dorper principals, Shorty and Julie Swilks, were delighted to kick off the sale by donating the proceeds of Lot 1, a Tinalong Dorper ram with Bellevue bloodlines, to Breast Cancer Research.
The ram made $2300 and sold to TopX Warwick.
“It was Shorty’s idea,” Julie Swilks said.
“Breast cancer has just touched so many people including my mum so we thought it would be a nice way of contributing.”
Selling agents: TopX
