Repeat clients chasing do-ability dominate Alumy Creek Angus bull sale
Buyers from three states took home the lion's share of sires at the annual Alumy Creek Angus bull sale on Friday, as rain fell down at Tenterfield on May 30.
Of the 67 bulls on offer 46 sold to a top of $20,000 to average $8260 a head.
Top priced Alumy Creek Big Valley U063, the heaviest of the draft, weighing 810 kilograms at 23 months, was knocked-down to repeat clients Jamie and Nikki Crawford, Glenvillan Pastoral at Kingaroy, Qld.
A son of Connealy Big Valley from a stud cow sired by LD Capitalist 316, the long-bodied heavily muscled bull recorded top seven to 13 per cent performance across all growth traits as defined by his Estimated Breeding Values, and listed in the top 24pc of the Trans Tasman Angus cohort for carcase weight at +79, 10kg above average.
With a 41 centimetres scrotal circumference, his scanned data showed 6.6pc Intra Muscular Fat and a 126sqcm Eye Muscle Area, the largest in the draft.
The Crawfords' family-owned vertically integrated beef enterprise, shared with sons Lachlan and Daniel, will put new Angus sires over Charbray cows with progeny grown-out ahead of induction into their own feedlot.
"We've been buying here the last five to six years and we like them because they are tough," said Mr Crawford.
"They handle our light forest country. They're not full of feed when they come up for sale."
Glenvillan came away with four bulls to average $13,250 including Alumy Creek Entice U131, by Mogck Entice, for $15,000, weighing 800kg and rising two years old with 6.5pc IMF and 118cm EMA.
Second highest-priced bull at $16,000, Alumy Creek Big Valley U141, also by Connealy Big Valley, 790kg, with 40cm scrotal and 6.2 IMF, sold to Angus breeders Michael and Jessica Smith and family, Adrigoole at Woodenbong.
Michael's sister Leisa Holden, her husband Boyd and their family at Oakbank, Old Bonalbo, purchased four bulls to average $7000 and top at $8000 twice, including the easy calving, low birthweight stud-bred sire Alumy Creek Prime Quarter U001.
Another repeat client Stephen Grey, at nearby Bonalbo, bought three bulls to average $8666 including another Big Valley son in U065, going back to LD Capitalist 316 on the dam side.
The Edwards family at Glencoe, buying though AuctionsPlus, came away with three sires to average $8333 and paying to $10,000 for another son of Mogck entice, with Capitalist on the dam side.
Repeat clients Matt and Jackie Tennyson, Moorabinda at Taroom, Qld, were the volume buyers taking home a neat dozen Angus bulls to average $7000 and top at $9000 twice, including the sire Alumy Creek Trailblazer U054750kg with a 40cm scrotal and 6.3 IMF.
The sale was conducted by George and Fuhrmann with Elders Stud Stock while AuctionsPlus handled the online bidding.
