Southern Charolais Breeders Sale
20 of 44 bulls to $7000, av $4400
3 of 7 cows to $5000, av $4230
6 of 10 heifers sold to $10,000, av $4350
The top selling Charolais at this year’s annual Southern Breeders sale will be exhibited at this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show.
Waterford Mooki, a October 2016 drop heifer, sold for $10,000.
She had been entered in the show, by previous owner Sapphire Halliday.
Ms Halliday said buyer Ron Johnson, Milford Pastoral, Beaudesert, Queensland, would go ahead and exhibit the heifer.
“I entered her for Sydney to give Queensland and NSW people the option to see her,” Ms Halliday said.
“She’s a really sensational heifer and I am taking her up there, on his behalf.”
She said she wasn’t worried if Mooki met with success at the show.
“He gets all the ribbons and we just have some fun,” Ms Halliday said.
Mr Johnson said he wasn’t to concerned, either, as to who got the “bragging rights,” if Mooki did well.
“Ms Halliday has done all the work,” Mr Johnson said.
“The easy thing is to either breed, or acquire them. The hard thing is to prepare them.”
He said he had picked out Mooki, after good reports about the animal.
“She has the attributes I like for my stud. Waterford produces good, classy heifers.”
Waterford Mooki M67E (P), was sired by Palgrove Hermes (PKH549E), out of Waterford Doris Day K63.
She recorded direct calving ease (CE Dir) figures of +3.6 and a daughters’ calving ease (CE Dtr) of -1.2.
She fell in the top 30 per cent for 2017 Australiasian Charolais Group BREEDPLAN 400 and 600 day weights, intramuscular fat (IMF) and all index values.
Ms Halliday said Mr Johnson also purchased Mooki’s half sister, at the 2016 Royal Melbourne Charolais Feature show , for $14,000.
‘It’s really exciting she is going to Milford Park,” Mr Halliday said.
“She is only the second heifer I have sold from Palgrove Hermes.
“We have being doing, very, very well in the show ring.
“Mooki is a very similar type to the heifer, which won the interbreed, at Melbourne, a couple of years ago.
“She is very, very sound, and structurally, she is spot on.
“You have to have structurally sound cattle, in this day and age, to get around the paddocks.
“We’re all chasing top price for our bulls, so we need good females to breed them.”
Among the more successful sellers was Chenu Charolais, Bridgewater, who achieved a total clearance of its eight bulls.
They also gained top price of $7000 for a bull, sold to Ros Turner, ‘Spring Hill’, Kyneton.
Chenu Maximus, an 888 kilogram white bull, had a scrotal circumference of 44 centimetres, P8 rump fat of eight millimetres, a rib fat of seven mm and an eye muscle areas (EMA) of 127 square centimetres.
The September, 2016 drop bull was by Chenu Ferarri (RLK F33E) out of Langi Ghiran Estella 12 (JRR F16E).
FP Nevins’ Chris Nevins said Ms Turner paid top price for the Chenu bull on its birthweight and growth rates.
It had a birthweight of +1.9kilograms, 200 day weight of +20kg, 400 day rate of +48kg and 600 day rate of +62kg.
‘It was probably the best bull in the yard, as the price indicated, at $7000,” Mr Nevins said.
Mr Nevins said the Turners were moving from Limousins.
“They are sticking with a European breed, but going to try the Charolais,” Mr Nevins said.
“They wanted to try the Charolais because they are so quiet.”
Chenu’s Ros Keeley said the top price showed the versatility and longevity of the stud’s bulls was finding a market.
“Our clients are repeat buyers and come back to buy more of our genetics,” Ms Keeley said.
“They back our bulls and our calves and that shows in clearances.”