Trevor Jellicoe-Fernville Corporation Pty Ltd, Inverell NSW
“Last year we fed about 100 of the Turnham’s Speckle Parks from Guyra. What a pleasure it was!
These Speckle Park cattle performed in every way. They adapted well to a grain fed diet. No sickness and the best of all, the lower end of them had weight gains of 2.2kg/day. The cattle were extremely quiet too.
Another pleasing point was the extremely high yields they achieved approximately 60%. In all, just great cattle to feed.”
Sale Video
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Waratah Speckle Park 2016 Sale videos
This year’s sale will be held on Monday, 11 July. For all the details see our sale page: Annual Sale – 2016.
For this year’s speckle park sale we have purposefully selected the cattle ensuring carcass quality and sound structure. We are pleased with the cattle on offer in 2016 and hope you are able to find the right animal to suit your individual breeding needs.
Sale Videos
Take a look at some of the lots we have in this year’s sale. You can see all our videos on: our YouTube Channel.
Sale Catalogue 2016
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A few pictures from the original Sale day 2015
Snow wind mist closed roads all led to the decision that the Waratah Speckle Park Sale 2015 would need to be postponed for a week.
The morning of the sale.
After the initial shock and warm drinks we decided to enjoy the snow
A great family day was had by all.
Sale results at a glance 2015
45 Bulls sold
Topped $18,000
Average$4500.00
Heifers rising 12mths 8 sold
Topped $9,000
Average$4812.50
PTIC Heifers 12 sold
Topped $7,000
Average$4812.50
Commercials 7 sold
Topped $1,900
Average$1328.57
Embryos 2 packages sold
Average$2600
Further lots sold concluding the sale
Sale summary 2015
Thanks to Nathan Purvis from Colin Say & Co for writing up this report
Waratah Prevails Over Snow
The snow cleared for round two at the annual Waratah Speckle Park Sale held on property at Guyra Monday 20th July 2015. An excellent line of bulls and females were offered. Cattle sold to new and repeat buyers from as far as north as Comet in Queensland and as far south as Victoria to Kerang.
There were 54 registered bidders competing on the Waratah catalogue including Auctions Plus purchasers. 49 bulls were offered with 45 selling to an average of $4500. PTIC heifers averaged $4812.50 with 12 out of the 13 on offering selling. The yearling heifers also averaged $4812.50 with 8 out of the 12 heifers sold. A full clearance was achieved for the commercial heifers with all 7 selling to average $1328.60. Embryo packages sold to average $2600.
Volume buyer was Dean Armstrong from “Comet Downs”, Comet North Queensland. After inspecting the Waratah display at Rockhampton Beef 2015 Mr. Armstrong was impressed enough to take the 1000+km journey to buy 12 bulls to average $4375, selecting some of the lead bulls of the Waratah draft.
Top price of $18,000 was paid for Waratah Just Chillin J154 a Waratah Eddie E22 son purchased by the Van Der Drift family from Kerang in Victoria. After the performance of last year’s purchases, the Van Der Drifts returned to secure some of the very best of Waratah’s offering. The family purchased 9 head paying up to $7000 for a PTIC heifer J46 a Champagne Pretender daughter to complement their Black Diamond Speckle Park Stud.
Top priced female was $9000 for lot 92 a Codiak Putnam 61Y female purchased by Burnett Valley Pork Pty Ltd of Monto Queensland. Sandra Verdonschot upon purchasing the heifer at the sale exclaimed “My husband is going to kill me”, a further conversation revealed “If you’re buying the best I will be happy”, upon receiving the heifer, the purchasers revealed all parties were satisfied.
The Turnham family were pleased with their second annual sale at “Waratah” challenged by a postponement of the sale due to snow. Noting you certainly cannot change the weather on the day. The Turnham family thanked everyone for persevering with the rescheduled sale date and look for- ward to seeing you in 2016, for a warmer Guyra welcome at the 3rd Waratah Speckle Park sale.
Trevor Jellicoe-Fernville Corporation Pty Ltd, Inverell NSW
“Last year we fed about 100 of the Turnham’s Speckle Parks from Guyra. What a pleasure it was!
These Speckle Park cattle performed in every way. They adapted well to a grain fed diet. No sickness and the best of all, the lower end of them had weight gains of 2.2kg/day. The cattle were extremely quiet too.
Another pleasing point was the extremely high yields they achieved approximately 60%. In all, just great cattle to feed.”
Ian & Ann Coy, Warwick QLD
“We are very pleased with the Speckle Park bull we bought from Waratah, our first group of calves are outstanding. Our SP cross steers reach up to 406kg at 8 months of age with supplementary grain assistance.
We took some to the local Warwick show. A heifer calf out of a Gelbvieh cow by Waratah Front Runner won Grand Champion Prime Vealer, and Joel Rickert received Grand Champion Lead steer at the Warwick show with one of our SP cross steers.”
Scott Beaumont, Dorrigo NSW | NSW 2014 Farmer of the Year Runner-up
“We have been using Speckle Park bulls for 4 seasons now over a Charolais cross Drought Master base herd of 300 cows. All of our bulls are from Waratah.Running a small feedlot we produce calves for the supermarket trade. Speckle Parks have increased our carcass yield and feed conversion in our 3 way cross.”
Toowoombah Farmfest 2015
We barely arrived home from Rocky and did a few things and loaded up the gear and headed to Toowoombah Farmfest.
All set up and ready to go.
Farmfest 2015
Blake O’Reilly led Hume H14 in the Battle Of the Bulls British Breed where Hume took out third. Thanks Blake.
Blake O’Reilly and Laiton with Waratah Hume H14.
The days were spent making contacts, talking about the future of the breed and promoting our next on farm Sale. Monday 13th July 2015.