EIGHT leading Queensland Brangus operations has combined their collective worth to stage this years 2014 Charters Towers Invitational Brangus Sale, Charters Towers, 10am Monday, November 3.
This year’s catalogue of 78 bulls all drawn from the central Queensland operations features a new vendor list and new genetic material from the Lunar, Oaklands, Coolabah, Pheasant Creek, Silent Grove, Boombah and Jett and Wallace prefixes.
Spokesman for the sole marketing agents, Troy Trevor, Queensland Rural, Charters Towers, outlined the many attractions that the sale offered “Again the vendor have ensured that the bar has been lift with regards the quality of the product on offer, it’s another step up on previous sale, in terms of consistency, beef types and sire prospects. This year again witnesses a huge slice of the some of the best performing Brangus genetics to be had, along with a balance of differing Bos indicus content which suits and attracts northern buyers.”
Troy added “All bulls are structurally sound, exhibit good temperament and will have been soundness evaluated and semen tested.”
Pre sale inspections and a 'Bull Walk' sponsored by HHH Partners will take place on Sunday 2nd November at the Dalrymple Saleyards, Charters Towers at 4pm. To assist buyers supplementary sheets will be available online or can be emailed or faxed to prospective buyers upon request and the sale offers free delivery to selected destinations.
The buyer feedback from previous fixtures indicates that bulls perform well in all areas of Queensland and sire cattle suitable for a variety of markets, have doing ability, fertility and great temperament.
The Wowan based, Pheasant Creek Brangus has 14 bulls in the offering.
All bulls are educated and handled with horses, bikes and dogs and have been grown out on Buffel grass pastures with a light feed ration from Rural Supplements for their sale preparation.
The operation is run with a strictly commercial focus and involves over 700 stud and commercial breeders. All females are pregnancy tested on a yearly basis and females are given no second chances.
The 2014 Pheasant Creek draft is represented by leading sires of the calibre of Banquet Covert, Fairy Springs Penne E Rama, Banquet F015, Jett Six Gun, Charlevue Curtis and a Duckworth bull and range in age from 22 to 37 months.
Charlevue Curtis. Curtis was the Beef 2009 Calf Champion Male awardee. The other sires include the homebred retained bulls, Eaton E6, Duke and Elmo.
A quality team of nine herd bulls has been assembled by Mackay breeder, Robbie Dunn and family, Silent Grove Stud.
All cattle have had been quietly worked with horses, motorbikes and dogs and have been given a grain assisted sale preparation in the paddock. And the bulls will be ready to work and not over conditioned.
Ages range from 23 to 31-months and are the sons of Beef expo champion, Greendale Zeus in the form of Silent Grove Storm Boy and the $10,500 Silent Grove Finger Bone (Zeus) and the US import, Sundance Of Brinks.
The bulls on offer are bred from dams are all from fertile, early maturing, docile families. These are practical, medium framed breeders that carry fertility and early maturity. This produces easy fleshed, easy doing and early finishing cattle suitable for most markets. These goals were the reason the Brangus breeding operation was commenced in this coastal environment for over 20 years ago.
Lunar Brangus fields a team for the 2014 sale of nine bulls ranging in age from 24 to 28 months. All have a full education with dogs, motorbikes and horses.
Lunar’s selection criteria is crucial to their breeding program, believing in producing and breeding cattle that excel in all country and terrain.
When selecting sires the operation looks for all the traits mentioned previously along with easy doing ability and should display a real masculine quality.
This years sale draft comprises individuals that have all been paddock reared and have been prepared on a grain assisted and rationed feeding program prepared by Rural Supplements.
Sires represented in the offering include the ever consistent Charlevue Barman and the retained son of Coolabah Trooper in Lunar Jasper.
Nev and Megan Hansen, Oaklands Stud, Kalapa have nine on offer.
Commenced over 12 years ago, the team have been educated and mustered on horses and bikes with dogs. Oaklands select for temperament, conformation and doing ability with the breeding program focusing on productive and functional females.
Featured in the sire list in the 2014 book for the prefix are the US breed giants, Csonka Of Brinks, Garrett Of Brinks, Lead Gun Of Brinks, CB Hombre and colonial sires, Greendale Yamba and Oaklands Distinction (Suhn’s Distinction (US)).
The Oaklands draft comprise both registered and herd bulls and range in age from 20 to 35-months .
Emerald breeder, Mark Reid, Jett Stud has 12 catalogued for the 2014 sale.
The team is the result of extensive AI and ET programs and contains both Brangus and the highly popular Ultra blacks. The bulls entered are either fully Registered or have been calf recorded with the Brangus society.
Sires include the US semen sires, Washington Of Brinks, LTD Of Brinks, Blanda Of Brinks, CB Hombre, Suhn’s Alydar, the Australian bulls, Greendale Oscar and Jett Tallahasse (Brinks Brightside) and the ‘first season sire’ in the US import, TCB Catawba Warrior R352.
Some of the team are full US products and are all aged from 23 to 38-months.
Dingo breeders, Tony, Sharon and Bryce Fernie, Boombah Stud have catalogued a draft of 12 herd bulls ranging in age from 23 to 26 months.
Many of the youngsters listed for the sale are the products of homebred bulls. Others are sons of Serenna Crusoe, Boombah 514, Greendale Y403, Boombah Clem, Boombah 613, Kajarbie 973 (XS Johnny Lee) and Doonside Sundance (Sundance Of Brinks).
Clarke Creek breeders, Stewart and Kerry Wallace are the latest to join the vendor ranks of the 2014 Charters Towers Sale.
Their prefix, Wallace will offer a draft of six herd bulls featuring a trio of rising three-year-old and three two-year-olds showing strength and maturity.
Composed of both polled and scurred individuals the 2014 Wallace draft are sired by a Glenoch Angus bull and Wallace Houston Manso 14/8 (Brahman).
Wallace Brangus bulls have been bred from our foundation herd of purebred
Brahman females.
Rejoining the list of vendors for the 2014 sale are Capella breeders Paul and Denise Studt, Coolabah Brangus with a team of seven bulls.
This years lineup of entirely herd bulls features sons of Coolabah Xeres (Coolabah Thunder), Coolabah X-Cell (Coolabah Sheriff) and Coolabah Yankee. Sherriff sired the winners of the Sires Progeny Group and the Junior Champion Bull at Beef 2012. The remaining sire represented in the 2014 catalogue for the prefix is Bonox 538.
The Brangus operation at Coolabah is in it’s 29th year and as in the past all bulls have been worked with horses and dogs.
Bulls are selected for clean underlines, good muscle and structural correctness, weight for age and temperament. All females have to be highly fertile, returning yearly with a calf. Failure to meet this criteria in either the registered or commercial herd sees them culled.
All Coolabah bulls have been paddock reared and prepared for sale on a light grain supplementation.
