MANDAYEN
53 of 55 Limousins sold to $19,000, av $6603
Total clearance of 21 Angus to $12,000, av $7809
AN outstanding, well-muscled, apricot Limousin sire turned plenty of heads during Mandayen stud’s 12th annual on-property bull sale on Wednesday last week at Keith, SA.
The May 2015-drop poll bull went onto top the sale at $19,000.
It was out of a top donor cow – Mandayen Jill C967 – and sired by Mandayen Vision C1054.
A full brother has been retained by the stud and two ET-bred sisters were the lead winter-drop heifers in the female sale.
Buyer John Gaffney, Graneta stud, Bell, Queensland, was confident Vision L51 would breed bulls well-suited to their Queensland Central Highlands market.
“I was chasing an apricot bull to breed smooth muscled, soft bulls. We have enough muscle in the herd so are looking for softness which it will give us.”
The 756-kilogram bull had a great phenotype and the Breedplan figures to match, with calving ease, growth and carcase traits in the top 1 per cent to 10pc of the breed.
The $14,000 second-highest price bull – Mandayen Vision L49 – was an ET sibling to the sale-topper. It sold to Limstow stud, Benalla.
The other Limousin bull to make five figures was lot 2 – Mandayen Payday L29 – which was knocked down at $12,000 to Tammit Station, Euston, NSW.
It was sired by 2014 Limousin National champion Summit Payday H28.
Commercial buyers made the most of good buying, which actually saw the average drop $781 on the 2016 sale. Twenty eight bulls sold for $4000-$6000.
Broad Cattle Company, Hallett, SA, bought five bulls av $4200, while Conner Pastoral Co, Tintinara, SA, got four bulls at $5000 each.
Mandayen diversified into breeding Angus in 2010.
Bids flew for the stud’s first offering of Angus incorporated into the sale, resulting in a total clearance of the 21 autumn and spring 2015-drops, av $7809.
Barry and Marie Farmer, Kangaringa Station, Keith, bought the $12,500 top-priced Angus, which was the lead spring-drop bull Mandayen Conversion L480.
The 692kg son of high-profile United States sire Silveiras Conversion and out of a Bull Oak Well female had tremendous carcase merit and growth for age.
It was in the top 10pc of Breeplan figures for 200- and 400-day weight and top 5pc for eye muscle area.
Conversion L480 was one of four bulls Kangaringa Station bought, av $9000.
The sale was conducted by Elders, Landmark and Spence Dix & Co, with Ross Milne, Richard Miller and Jono Spence the auctioneers.