The laneways were full of prospective buyers looking at sires for the 2017 Eidsvold Charolais Bull Sale.
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![Second top priced bull Elridge Liberty (AI) (P) sold for $11,500 to Jim Viner, Tressavale, Glastonbury with Ross Warren, Elridge stud, Gympie. Second top priced bull Elridge Liberty (AI) (P) sold for $11,500 to Jim Viner, Tressavale, Glastonbury with Ross Warren, Elridge stud, Gympie.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/3AYKBMnFjcWGESVJQNBfejj/91f85696-98d9-419c-8b1c-0c92b580befc.jpg/r0_0_3504_2289_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
A total of 37 cattle producers registered to buy at this year's sale with plenty of spirited bidding from the start of the bull sale.
High prices were quickly achieved with lot 3 polled Elridge Lord (AI) bull coming under plenty of excited bidding and reaching $10,500. The 24-month-old bull sold to Lindsay and Belinda Hindle, Fairfield Charolais, Fairfield, Roma. The well-muscled sire weighed in at 900 kilograms with 10 millimeters of fat on the rump and eight millimeters of fat on the rib plus an Eye Muscle Area of 134 centimetres squared.
Stud principles Ross and Paula Warren, Elridge and Sirrah Charolais Studs, Glendale, Gympie said the Lord bull was an outstanding sire that is genetically and phenotypically complete.
“The bull exhibits exceptional length muscle and bone and has covered easily,” Mr Warren said.
![Top priced bull Clare Little Awesome sold for $14,000 to Errol Otto with Top X's Tony Pearce and Alan Goodland. Top priced bull Clare Little Awesome sold for $14,000 to Errol Otto with Top X's Tony Pearce and Alan Goodland.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/3AYKBMnFjcWGESVJQNBfejj/e87b8300-31bd-43d6-b878-facc246bd2c6.JPG/r447_370_3674_2168_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
“This polled red sire has a natural gentle disposition and is structurally very correct plus the Lord bull ranks in the top percentiles for most traits and keeps improving as a sire.”
It wasn't long before the top priced bull of the Eidsvold Charolais sale was reached with the lot 7 Clare Little Awesome (P) bull receiving gasps from the gallery of buyers as the price rocketed to $14,000. The bull was purchased by repeat buyer Errol Otto, Boggomoss, Taroom and the sire will go into the Otto family’s commercial cattle herd of Brahman cows at their Jericho property.
I have been using charolais bulls over my Brahman cows for many years with excellent results and have purchased bulls previously from Clare Charolais stud,” Mr Otto said.
The Clare Charolais stud is operated by Alan and Natalie Goodland and family, Clare, Theodore.
Mr Goodland said the Little Awesome bull is the first sire to sell by How Awesome who is breeding extremely well in their stud.
“The bull is a great example of our How Awesome progeny, very soft with a great muscle pattern,” Mr Goodland said.
“Our How Awesome calves would be most easy going plus the bull has a great polled head, thick right along his top line and carries right down into the hock and his EBVs (Estimated Breeding Values) place him in the top 10 per cent for growth and 15pc for scrotal circumference.”
The 22-month-old Clare Little Awesome bull weighed in at 884 kilograms with nine millimeters of fat on the ramp and seven millimeters of fat on the ribs plus an Eye Muscle Area of 136 centimetres squared.
The second top price of the Eidsvold Charolais sale took a little bit longer to be reached with lot 41 Elridge Liberty (AI) (P) topping at $11,500. The bull was owned by the Warren family, Elridge Charolais Stud, Glendale, Gympie And sold to Jim Viner, Tressavale, Glastonbury near Gympie.
Mr Viner said he chose the impressive sire due to his low birth weight EBVs to put over his first calf heifers and also the quiet temperament of the bull.
Mr Warren said the Liberty bull was another polled PBR 213 son that demonstrates all the same easy doing and low birthweight attributes of his siblings.
“The bull has a great spring of rib, wide rump and wonderful disposition plus this growthy, young sire has fat indexes as high as they will go and is out of a big strong Granville cow,” he said.
The 21-month-old Liberty bull recorded 752kg over the scales and an EMA of 123cm sq.