Success at Blink Bonnie

This formula was again most successful last Friday when their 200 one-year-old ewes fetched $200 each by repeat buyers, Mountain Run, Trunkey Creek, who bought the same line at last year's sale. They also bought five rams for an $840 average.

The draft of 250 Merino wether lambs, five-to-six months of age and unshorn sold at $110 a head to repeat buyer, Trevor Toole of Killoola Pastoral Company, Bathurst.

In the ram catalogue 32 sold from a draft of 54 to a top of $2700 to average $925.

Buyer of the sale-topper, Grant Toole, Killoola, Peel, also paid the top money last year. This time he also purchased another five rams paying an average $1150 for his half-dozen and has been buying at Blink Bonnie since 2008.

The top-priced ram was sired by a Blink Bonnie son of a Roseville Park sire which the Moores paid $18,000 in partnership six years ago, BB2779, and was growing 18.2 micron wool with a greasy fleece weight of 112 per cent to his peer drop group.

The ram, weighing 190 kilograms in August, had a 30 millimetre eye muscle depth (EMD) and a yearling fat score (YFS) of 5.

Among volume buyers was Najaky Pty Ltd, Black Swamp, Dunkeld, buying for the first time and secured four rams topping at $1500 for an 18.2 micron rams with 30mm EMD and averaging $1025.

Long-term clients, Hugh and Sue Webb, Grand Vista, Hazelgrove, also purchased five rams while paying $800 for each.

Mr Moore said he had run his stock numbers down by 30 to 40 per cent but rejoins ewe while their lambs are at foot, ready to be able increase numbers for when the drought breaks.

A team of Blink Bonnie wethers were placed second overall in the 2015-2018 Bookham Ag Bureau Wether Trial.

They made an income of $4025 , just $33 behind the winning teams and were placed second overall for profit per hectare per year.

The sale was conducted by Elders Bathurst with David Simpson, the auctioneer.