Boonaroo bull – a record cracker

Beef & Cattle
STOCK & LAND, February 27, 2014
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■ Cricklewood
Cracker’s first
son to be sold
in Australia,
Boonaroo
Hamlin, with
Ogilvie Group
managers
Carl and
Debra Kunze
and Boonaroo
stud
principals
Jodie and
Shane Foster.
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Boonaroo bull –
a record cracker
BOONAROO ANGUS
■ 60 of 66 bulls to $11,500, av
$4412
By ANNABELLE BEALE
T
HE first son of Cricklewood
Cracker 399 to be sold in
Australia helped break records at
Boonaroo Angus on-property bull sale
on Friday that saw sale prices rocket
to an historical value of $11,500.
Boonaroo sold 60 of 66 bulls offered
to average $4412 and received a new
sale high for Boonaroo Hamlin H43
purchased by Noel Ogilvie, for the
Ogilvie Group.
Hamlin recorded Estimated
Breeding Values (EBV) calving ease
direct of -1.4,
The bull was a son of Cricklewood
Cracker 399 – 399 was by Atuhua TJ
141-05 – and from Dunoon Reagan
R093-sired dam Boonaroo Wargoona
C16.
Hamlin had birthweight estimated
breeding value of 6.2 kilograms,
calving east direct -1.4, mature cow
weight +99 and milk (+8kg) in the top
25 per cent of the breed.
Hamlin showed the ideal phenotype
for Mr Ogilvie who was transitioning his Hereford herd to an Angus
operation and secured 12 bulls in
total, av $4125.
Ogilvie Group managers Carl and
Debra Kunze said they were attracted
to Hamlin’s muscling that carries the
meat right through and sound leg
and foot structure, that will be put
over Herefords to improve the Ogilvie
herd.
“We were also looking at the different bloodlines (with the son of New
Zealand Cricklewood Cracker) for
genetic diversification,” Mr Kunze
said.
“We want to genetically get our herd
elite so we can start breeding our own
bulls.”
The second highest price paid at the
sale was $7500, for Boonaroo Harvard
H19 – who recorded calving ease,
short gestation length and plenty of
growth and fertility, by new client
Alex and Tania Virgo, Mount Gambier,
South Australia.
Two bulls nabbed third place with
Lot 1 and 2, Boonaroo Herbert H63
and Boonaroo Harold H1 selling to
$7000.
Stud principals Shane and Jodie
Foster said considering the state of
the beef industry following consecutively tough seasonal conditions and
average market prices, it was a good
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sale result.
“We were fortunate the Ogilvie
Group were buying from us as they
changed from a Hereford to Angus
herd – that helped the sale result,”
Jodie said.
“We had all commercial clients,
with some new interest, all looking
for bulls with a lot of muscling and
fat cover.”
Jodie said sons of New Zealand
sires, Te Mania 9-450 who sold for
$30,000 in 2011 and Cricklewood
Cracker, were highly sought after as
commercial clients avoided interbreeding and genetic defects through
the new genetics.
“We’ve started to get a real type
about the cattle with easy finishing
and well-muscled animals that gets
most beef markets,” she said.
“Most clients were after bulls that
don’t have huge feed requirements,
fat cover and good eye muscle and
meat yields to ge them off early, that
perform – they want those traits that
suit what they want to do with their
calves.”
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12-month chase for $10k top bull
LINDSAY MURRAY GREYS
■ Total clearance of 27 bulls to
$10,000, av $5296
NEW heights were hit by Lindsay
Murray Grey stud principals Craig
and Jacinta Grant during their annual
bull sale at Casterton last week.
Prices peaked at $10,000 in a total
clearance of 27 bulls, which averaged an impressive $5296 – nearly
$1000 up on last year.
The youngest bull in the sale
Lindsay Helsinki H164, by Monterey
Easy Rider, attracted several interested buyers, but it was phone
bidder Don Monley, Harden, NSW,
who placed the winning bid at
$10,000.
Mr Monley had been monitoring
Helsinki after seeing him more than
12 months ago as a bull calf.
The 17-month-old bull, out of stud
elite dam Lindsay Elizabeth A171,
recorded a breeding average calving
ease direct estimated breeding value
of -1.2 per cent and birthweight +3.2
kilograms.
The second highest price was
$9000 for Lindsay Hostage, son of
Kelso Cracker C17 and out of Lindsay
Leanne, paid by Glenbold Murray
Greys, Strathalbyn, South Australia.
Lindsay Hostage boasted calving
■ Landmark
and Elders stud
stock managers
Andrew Sloan
and Roos
Milne with
stud principals
Jacinta and
Craig Grant and
the top-priced
bull, Lindsay
Helsinki. Don
Monley, Harden,
NSW, purchased
the bull for
$10,000.
ease of -1.2pc, milk +3kg and had the
second highest eye muscle area scan
at 600 days at +44.
The Whitehead family from
Edenhope purchased four bulls to
$5000, av $3750.
In the current beef market climate,
Mr Grant said the stud did not
expect a recorded breaking sale,
but welcomed the strong results that
affirmed their progressive breeding
plan.
“It is the best offering we have had
up before and goes to show that if
you can get the cattle and product
right, people appreciate the quality,”
he said.
“Generally clients were chasing
quality bulls with calving ease, but
not bulls that were over-extreme in
any way – just good quality carcase
bulls.”
– ANNABELLE BEALE
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