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Kenny's Creek Angus Stud

Female Sale Results 2011

Kennys Creek females to $8000

A SMALL but focussed crowd were ring side at last weeks Kenny’s Creek Angus female sale, Boorowa, pushing the top females to $8000 and taking home some top females at good money.

The sale offered 70 live lots and four embryo lots, with 26 of 30 cow and calf units, including donor dams selling to the sale top of $8000, averaging $3769, all 12 PTIC cows topped at $6000, averaging $3042, 26 of 28 PTIC heifers averaged $2192 and four embryo packages sold to $550 tops per egg.

The top female was a Te mania Examined X60 daughter, from a Kennys Creek Champagne Z893 cow, with strong 600 day, eye muscle area, intra muscular fat and fat indexes, with a bull calf at foot by Kennys Creek Darwin D392 and was bought over the phone by Macksville High School, Macksville, for $8000.

A regular face at Angus female sales Keith Kerridge and his Manager Glynn Langford, Bannaby Angus, Taralga, again picked through the sale taking the top females home, securing six to $6000 tops on three occasions to average $4667.

The first was a classy Te Mania unlimited daughter, with low birth and good growth at $6000 and then what was regarded as the top donor on offer for $6000 by Booroomka Warwick W245, PTIC back in calf to Papa Equator A241, due to calve in March and finished with a third $6000 cow and calf unit by Te Mania Examined, who showed good birth, growth and carcase traits.

Mr Kerridge said he was looking for cows to go into their donor program.

“We were simply after good cows , with plenty of capacity and good udders and mainly focussing on good type, “ he said.

AuctionsPlus paid it’s way on the day buying a cross section of 14 young and old females to $5500 tops and averaging $2857.

Rogialyn Platinum Angus, Mossvale, rounded out the top donor cows paying $5500 for Kenny’s Creek D212, a stylish 2008 drop Papa Equator daughter with plenty of capacity and a great balance of figures, rounded out with a heifer calf at foot by Regent D145.

James Jackson, Bathurst, bought nine females, mainly focussing on the younger PTIC females, averaging $2139, while GS and KA Wilkinson, Ballarat, Victoria, bought the same amount to $4500 tops, averaging $2500.

There was also good stud competition on the day with Petandra Angus, Stroud, taking home four heifers at $2250, Fred Geard, Premier Angus, Berrima, with two heifers at $3000 and $3500, while Roger McIntosh, Myanga Angus, Crookwell, paid $4000 for a Leachman Boom Time daughter with a Regent D145 son on her.

J and N Holmes, Toowomba outh, Queensland, rounded out the sale buying four cow and calf units for $2938 and then the top embryo package of four eggs at $550 in Te Mania Emperor E343, the $91,000 record priced bull sold in March this year out of a Kennys Creek Bara A612 female.

The sale was conducted by Elders with Andy McGeoch as the auctioneer.

By BRETT TINDAL