Open day highlights stud
PROSPECTIVE buyers from as far as Clermont to Kilcoy attended the Burenda Angus Open Day.
The Burenda team were overwhelmed by the commitment new and past buyers made to attend the day.
Bulls had been prepared on leucaena and grass pastures over the summer and were transitioned onto an oats crop for the sales.
Of the Roma draft of 127 bulls, 10 had an EMA (eye muscle areas) of greater than 130cm, 41 had an EMA of greater than 120cm and 55 had an IMF of better than 6.0%.
The top EMA bull of the sale draft is Lot 8 Burenda Lash L139 (AI), 882kg, P8 12mm, Rib 9mm, EMA 136cm, IMF 6.8% and scrotal 40cm.
The top IMF bull of the Roma draft is Lot 83 Burenda Lamond L197 (AI), 766kg, P8 15, Rib 8mm, EMA 111cm, IMF 7.7% and scrotal 43cm.
The buyers travelled some distances from places such as Clermont, Springsure, Roma, Arcadia Valley, Meandarra, Blackbutt, Brisbane, Kingaroy, Taroom, Chinchilla, Banana and Kilcoy.
Kilcoy Butchery’s Peter Stanton was looking for quality angus bulls with reliable breeding and EBVs to support his extensive breeding program.
He needs to keep up his supply of angus heifers through his long-standing butcher shop.
“The presentation is outstanding and the quality of the bulls over the 127 Roma bulls is incredible,” he said.
The butcher shop has been in Peter’s family since 1958 and is coming up to it’s 60 year milestone.
The bulls behaved like true gentlemen on the open day and were contained behind a single electric tape in most instances.
Visitors were able to see Burenda’s calving facilities, calf catcher and cattle yards where the AI is done.
Guests were shown the team’s commitment to breeding fertile, functional cattle that perform across a range of commercial environments.
Burenda has concentrated on a short joining period to AI and natural bulls (6-8 weeks total), strict pregnancy testing at 40 days post joining, this removes less fertile females from the herd and provides us with a breeder herd of early calving, shorter gestation productive females.
At calving all progeny are tagged and weighed, at 200 days weaners are assessed for docility and weight, at 400 days they are weighed and scanned for rib, rump, EMA and IMF data and all this is recorded with Breedplan to produce our EBV’s.
❝ The presentation is outstanding and the quality of the bulls over the 127 Roma bulls is incredible. — Peter Stanton