{"id":806,"date":"2023-05-05T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merlewoodangus.com.au\/?p=806"},"modified":"2023-05-05T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:01:53","slug":"angus-heifers-sold-to-60000-at-circle-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merlewoodangus.com.au\/angus-heifers-sold-to-60000-at-circle-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus heifers sold to $60,000 at Circle 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
The hunt for high quality Angus females continued at the complete T drop Angus female sale at Circle 8 Angus Marulan last week, as buyers chased heifers with style, phenotype, pedigree and the customer service, synonymous with the Circle 8 program.<\/p>\n
In all, all 50 “T” drop young heifers cleared on the day to a top of $60,000 and averaged $12,089, following on from the “S” drop sale in Spring last year, where two Angus breed records were broken.<\/p>\n
The sale broke the mould of Angus female sales, offering the complete drop, giving buyers the opportunity to secure females that usually would not be for sale and high end pedigrees to enhance other stud programs.<\/p>\n
The Rosebud female line certainly did that, with buyers chasing the highly productive family line to the top of $60,000.<\/p>\n
Circle 8 Rosebud T170 topped the sale and was bought by Robert Mackenzie, Mackas Angus, Gloucester, for $60,000 and the second of the feature lots Circle 8 Rosebud T221, for $28,000.<\/p>\n
The top heifer was sired by GB Fireball 672, while their second heifer went back to LD Capitalist 316 and were both exceptionally good looking heifers.<\/p>\n
Robert Mackenzie said both heifers had great temperament, balance, structure and presented extremely well.<\/p>\n
“We are in the business of producing high quality females that look aesthetically pleasing to our clients, but are functional, productive, fertile and backed by top end performance,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said, its cost them the same to produce a good looking female, as it did a bad one, other than the initial outlay, so he backs the initial spend to have those high quality, good looking females every day of the week and the heifers they bought from Circle 8 definitely give them that.<\/p>\n
Mr Mackenzie, also paid $140,000 for the record breaking top priced unjoined Angus heifer at last Septembers Circle 8 Angus bull and female sale and the top bull at $55,000 in 2021, so he knows the program well.<\/p>\n
Mr Mackenzie runs 4000 commercial Angus cows along side his stud operation and aims to transfer what they are buying at the top end through their females into the commercial herd, as the foundation of the commercial herd is paramount.<\/p>\n
“We are selecting cattle that are more sustainable, with higher fertility, shorter gestation, better calving ease and faster growth, with females with great milking ability to encourage that faster growth, and the genetics we are buying are focused on animals that can do this” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Mackenzie said the fact Jeremy made the effort to come and spend a day to look around our operation and understand what we are trying to achieve and how he can help that journey, gives us a lot of faith in his program.<\/p>\n