THE fifth annual Tattykeel Australian White sale was held at the Gilmore family home at Black Springs yesterday.
A large crowd of prospective buyers from as far as Western Australia, New Zealand and more local bidders gathered to view the very even selection of rams and ewes.
On offer were 20 stud rams, 84 flock rams, 60 stud ewes and nine ewes with lambs. A clearance of 100 per cent of stud, flock rams and ewes with lambs and a 99pc clearance of the stud ewes.
A top price of $28,000 was achieved for the stud rams and in what is believed to be a record for a meat sheep breed, an average of $11,150 was made.
Three stud rams went for greater than $20,000 and another six made over $10,000.
Flock rams topped at $4000 averaging $2565.
Stud ewes topped at $3600 twice and averaged at $1944 while the ewes with lambs at foot topped at $2800 with an average of $2111.
The top priced ram will be transported to New Zealand with three other rams.
Murray Sargent, Kaahu Studs, Taupo, New Zealand purchased four rams including the top and third top priced rams was looking for better survival, temperaments and growth rates for his newly formed Wiltipol and long standing Coopworth studs.
“My focus is to breed sheep with lower inputs but high outputs with good carcase and good eating.” he said.
“Tattykeel have done a really good job creating this breed.
“I am impressed with the structure and how they have line bred good type sheep.
“We will take them home and see how they handle our conditions.”
The sale was conducted by Landmark Bathurst with Miles Pfitzner, Adelaide, South Australia controlling the bids.
Read more in the Tattykeel sale feature covering all three recent sales in next week’s edition of The Land.
