Gilmandyke Angus hits $30,000 top and $12,762 average

Overall the Orange based stud sold 84 bulls to a top of $30,000 and average of $12,762, surpassing the stud's previous $18,000 top and $9305 average records set last year.

In the breakdown 53 two-year-old bulls sold to a $30,000 top and $13,283 average, and 31 yearling bulls sold to a $24,000 top and $11,870 average.

Repeat and volume commercial buyers were active throughout the sale, but they could not out bid online Queensland buyers Bauhinia Park Angus and Charolais, Emerald when it came to the feature lot of the sale.

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Gilmandyke News Flash Q101 was the bull with all the hype in the lead up, and he did not disappoint when his video came onto the screen and bids starting flying.

The two-year-old son of Ben Nevis Newsflash N239 and out of the maternal female in Gilmandyke Eutesca H0241, weighed 846 kilograms with a scrotal circumference of 39 centimetres. He ranked in the top five per cent for gestation length, and top 10pc for calving ease daughters.

First time buyers to the Gilmandyke program, Jeff Holzwart of Bauhinia Park studs said he was a handsome bull that ticked a lot of boxes for them.

"He is a lovely long, beautiful coated bull that held himself well. He had a great outlook to him and he is a big free moving guy with great constitution," Mr Holzwart said.

"He had a slightly lower birth weight and to get a bull like that carrying himself so well, with bone and constitution, and a lower birthweight at +3.1... he was a complete package, a big handsome fellow.

"Being a different bloodline to a lot of our cows also caught our eye, and being out of one of the Gilmandyke donor cows shows they have faith in his mother as a donor to produce quality stock."

Mr Holzwart said the bull would be used to back up 75 beautiful stud Angus cows they had recently bought for their Glen Innes block.

For the first time Gilmandyke Angus offered yearling R-drop bulls that were extremely well received by prospective buyers.

"It was great to see the support on the yearlings, they sold extremely well. We will keep offering them in sales to come," Gilmandyke general manager Wade Peatman said.

The $24,000 top-priced yearling, and second high-seller of the sale, was Gilmandyke 38 Special R76 purchased by Currowa Angus.

Ranking in the top 10 per cent or above for 11 traits and two indexes, he was a true heifer bull with a calving ease direct figure of +10.9, calving ease daughters of +11, gestation length of -9.2 and a birth weight figure of +1.0.

A genuine yearling bull selling at just 12 months of age, the impressive youngster was one of six sons of of Baldridge 38 Special that average $15,333.

Also making $24,000 was Gilmandyke Effective Q93, a calving ease, low birth weight son of Schiefelbein Effective 61, purchased by Binda Holdings Pty Ltd, Crookwell.

Three bulls sold for the third top money of $22,000.

The largest volume buyers were repeat buyers Corio Ag, Southern Highlands who took home nine bulls for a healthy $14,444 average.

Buying from the Gilmandyke Angus stud since its inaugural sale Stafford and Kim Job and their sons Jonathon and Nicholas of Emmagool Pastoral, picked up three yearling bulls for their large scale operation at Dubbo.

Running around 1500 Angus breeders, the Jobs are a self-replacing operation that sells its calves through the local saleyards or on AuctionsPlus at around the 380 to 420 kilogram mark.

"We came here to buy sons of (Musgrave 316) Stunner for a new bloodline," the Jobs said.

"We keep coming back (to Gilmandyke) because the cattle do well for us - they're hearty cattle and suit our climate."

They paid an average of $10,667 across the three.

Gilmandyke Pastoral is known for its maternal strength throughout its females, and in line with this the stud increased its offering of commercial females to 397 head to allow producers the chance to get their hands on quality lines.

In total 60 mixed age pregnancy-tested-in-calf (PTIC) cows were sold to a top of $3800 a head and averaged $3600/hd, while 337 PTIC heifers topped also topped at $3800/hd and averaged $3471/hd.

There was close to 90 registered bidders in attendance, while a number of buyers were particularly active online via AuctionsPlus throughout the commercial females.

The $3800/hd top pen of cows consisted of 20 females PTIC to the $140,000 Dunoon Prime Minister P758 with calves expected to hit the ground in a month. They were purchased by Barry and Kay Graham of Glen Quarry.

Four pens of 25 PTIC heifers made the equal top money of $3800/hd. They were all PTIC to the $160,000 Millah Murrah Paratrooper P15, and all sold to AuctionsPlus buyers except for one pen that was picked up by David Baxter of Macquarie Stud, Wellington.

The sale was conducted by Bowyer and Livermore with Todd Clements selling the females and Harry Phillips selling the bulls.

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