Deeargee Speckle Park reduction records excellent clearance and new clients
Deeargee Speckle Park stud at Uralla recorded a successful female reduction sale on Monday, with two lots to $7000 and 39 lots from 43 averaging $3605.
Speckle Park heifers with top Canadian genetics went to stud breeding enterprises in four states, including Tasmania and South Australia.
Deeargee Urban Cowgirl U104, by Codiak Putnam 61Y from Kamarah Lyndee, sold for $7000 to Luke Seeliger, Flaxman Valley, Vic.
Deeargee's favourite heifer of the U drop, U104, 16 months, presented at 470 kilograms and scanned at 8.1 per cent intramuscular fat.
Her full sister, the speckled Untamed Cowgirl U141, 453kg, sold for $5750 and presented with 7.8pc IMF.
Selling for the equal top price of $7000 was the white Deeargee Up Up and Away U151 by Spots 'n' Sprouts Stands Up Alone from Waratah Pho-Finish J89. The only Stands Alone heifer offered by Deeargee in this sale, at 442kg with 6.5pc IMF, she was sold to Mark and Linda Schicht, Yonda Station Speckle Park stud, Boorook via Tenterfield.
A Stand-Alone grand-daughter, Deeargee Untold Stories U144 made $5250 and went to Emily and Clinton Henry's boutique stud Spring Gully Farm, Spring Creek, via Clifton, Qld.
Weighing 416kg with 6.7pc IMF she was by Maungahina Lauaki from Deeargee Splish-Splash out of a Waratah cow.
"Besides her good looks were interested in another blood line, said Mrs Henry who praised the breeds' meat quality and temperament.
"They're easy to work with," she said.
Deeargee stud principal Charlie Sutherland said he was pleased with the sale result.
"We sold to a huge percentage and achieved a lot of new clients. The top prices were expected in this market," he said.
"The Canadian bulls we use in our AI program, particularly Putnam and Stands Alone are highly-sought after and it is rare to find these genetics.
"We offer a desirable package - carcase yield, softness and temperament - with good phenotypes."
During the 2019 drought Mr Sutherland said the Speckle Park cows did "exceptionally well".
Deeargee runs 700 breeders and had made the decision to reduce female stud numbers so the family enterprise could focus on their commercial herd, where Speckle Park sires over black baldy mothers produce an early maturing calf ideally suited for the feedlot.
Speckle Park blood with extra growth genetics are used to help deliver caracase outcomes and Mr Sutherland said he embraced the breed's ability to express the myostatin gene with more muscle as a result.
The sale was hosted by Elders Rural services, Walcha, and Elders studstock with StockLive handling the online bidding.
