Texas Angus 2016 Newsletter

TEXAS ANGUS 48th ANNUAL BULL SALE BREED WITH

BETTER

TEXAS

Celebrating 80 years of breeding!

120 BULLS Thursday 28th July 2016, 1pm On Property at “Doongara” WARIALDA NSW Open Day Thursday 14th July

Texas dominates Sydney Royal Beef Challenge Feedlot and Carcase Trial Texas dominates Sydney Royal Beef Challenge Feedlot and Caracse Trial

For many years Texas Angus has prided itself on how well our cattle perform for weight for age as well as meeting market specifications on the orhooks. manySo years Angus hastime prided itself last Texas year, for the first in the studs on how wellwe ourdecided cattle perform for breeding weight forprogram age history, to test our as well as meeting specifications on the by entering the market Royal Sydney Beef Challenge hooks.

So last year,competition). for the first time in the studs (feedlot/carcase history, we decided to test our breeding program by entering thereputation Royal Sydney Beef Our stud’s was on the Challenge line, as our (feedlot/carcase competition). purebred Angus steers were competing not only

Reserve Champion Export Pen

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against other Angus but other purebred breeds Our stud's reputation was on the line, as our and more importantly crossbred cattle from other p u r e b r e d A n g u s leading commercial and seedstock operations of steers were competing not only against other Ang NSW and QLD. u s b u t o t h e r p u r e b r e d breeds and more importantly crossbreds from The steers entered were the bottom other leading commercial and selection seed- of their bull contemporary group and with the guided stock operations of NSW and QLD. selection from Ben Hiscox, BJA, 2 pens of 100 export steerswere and one of 70selection Day domestic Theday steers entered the pen bottom of steers were entered.

When the feedlot results their bull contemporary group and with thetrial guided were announced we wereBJA, elated selection from Ben Hiscox, 2 with penswinning of 100 the 100 Day Export Daily Weight Gain (DWG) day export steers and one pen of 70 Day domes-and placingwere 2nd entered. in the Domestic Dailyfeedlot Weighttrial Gain tic steers When the against a cohort of 120 and 330 steers and heifers, results were announced we were elated with winningrespectively. the 100 Day Export Daily Weight Gain (DWG) and placing 2nd in the Domestic Daily We couldn’t be happier to beatof crossbreds DWG Weight Gain against a cohort 120 andfor 330 steers heifers, respectively. thatand had the added advantage of hybrid vigour but when the carcase results were announced We we couldn't happier to beat at crossbreds for we were abelittle shell shocked the success DWG that had the added advantage of hybrid achieved! vigour but when the carcase results wereBen announced we were athe little shell shocked at being presented Reserve Champion the success achieved!

Ribbon we Export pen by Greg Watson, Chairman of RAS Cattle Committee Ben being presented the Reserve Champion Ribbon Export pen by Greg Watson Chairman of RAS Cattle Committee

Reserve Champion Export Pen

Results are as follows: Results are as follows;100 Day Export Pen *Reserve Champion *ReserveMedal Champion 100 Day Export Pen *Bronze for Taste Test *Bronze MedalDWG for Taste Test *1st Highest for Domestic Pen *1st Highest DWG for Domestic Pen

*1st Feedlot Trial for Domestic Pen *1st Feedlot Trial for Domestic Pen

*2nd Feedlot Trial for Domestic Individual *2nd Feedlot Trial for Domestic Individual

*3rd Live Assessment for Domestic Individual *3rd Live Assessment for Domestic Individual

*1st Carcase Grid Export Pen *1st Carcase Grid Export Pen

*1st Profitability Export Pen *1st Profitability Export Pen

*1st FeedlotTrial TrialExport ExportPen Pen *1st Feedlot *1st FeedlotTrial TrialExport ExportIndividual Individual *1st Feedlot *1st and 2nd 2ndCaracse CarcaseGrid Grid Export Individual *1st and Export Individual *2nd Profitabilityfor forExport Export Individual *2nd Profitability Individual

Ben didn’t quiet absorb the achievement that night as he had driven all the way to Tamworth without car keys. he had and turned Benthe didn’t quietWhen absorb the arrived achievement that the car off, it automatically shut down and couldn’t night as he had driven all the way to Tamworth be restarted! interesting night on how without the carMade keys.anWhen he had arrived and he got home as he had to start an ET program turned the car off, it automatically shut down and the following morning. Made an interesting night couldn't be restarted! on how he got home as he had to home early the next **Texas morning also to start an the ET program. had highest marbling

score steer of 7 (2the scores above any other **Texas also scored highest marbling score steer of 7 (2 scores above any other animal in the competition) and only on animal thefeed!!!** competition) only on 100 100in days

Lachie Lachie and andWill Willwith withall allthe theribbons! ribbons!

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Halings Hillside Hat Trick No April Fools Joke Courtesy of Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange TRLX

Tony & Tania Haling, Hillside Park, Woolbrook have taken out the Virbac Weaner Challenge for the third year running with their outstanding run of calves sold through IML at TRLX on 1st April.

Champion pen (photo insert) went to their Angus steers by Texas Angus and another central Angus Stud out of big frame Riverina bred cows.

The Reserve Champion pen went to Pine Hill for their 8-9 month old Simmental steer calves sold through B&S. The Haling family also scooped the pool with their Charolais x Angus heifers winning first place and their Angus heifers runner up.

Tony Haling says that the prices this year were significantly up on last year, despite probably being the lightest calves of all the three years (due to seasonal conditions) they’ve won the title. Their top steers made $1110, compared to $905 in 2015, and their top heifers made $940, compared to $800 in 2015.

Judge, Rob McCarthy once again credited vendors of the presentation of the 4000 weaners as an outstanding job in a season where we had “5 minutes of good and the rest no good..”

We congratulate The Halings for their incredible result particularly when they were up against 4000 weaners!

Texas Angus was happy to donate 2 registered heifers to the Warialda Public School P & C Livestock Drive. The P & C held a fundraising event to conduct a technological upgrade to their school hall. Local farming families found a spare animal in their paddock to sell with another family providing the truck and the local agent offering to sell them commission free. To date the fundraiser has raised just under $10,000!

WP School leaders including Abby Kent, Lucy Lockyer, Charlie Horn, Will Mayne and Jack Digby with Ian Durkin, Ben Mayne, Dan van Velthuizen and Scott Biddle

2016 Sale Bulls - Scoring Highest Marbling Ever

The bulls this year are possibly the most even, heavy fleshing, soft, docile bulls we’ve ever presented. The scanning results of them have been phenomenal. We’ve never before scanned bulls over 7.4 for marbling and heifers scanning over 8 at such a young age! It’s not surprising as the brothers of these bulls scored the highest marbling scores of the RAS Beef Challenge competition of over 450 entries and achieved the best weight gain performance of all breeds and crosses. Breeding purebred cattle that can out do Crossbreds with hybrid vigour for daily weight gain combined with high marbling is exactly what we have been breeding for and we are now recognised for it at this prestigious Sydney Royal Feedlot and Carcase Trial. Not many studs can say they have steers marble 7 on only 100 days feed, many have said they marble 7 or 8 on 270 days feed!!

We have once again a huge line of proven calving ease bulls including 17 GPS sons, 18 Reality, 9 outstanding powerhouse sons of Total x Z183 (half brothers to the $45,000 K2), 15 450 sons, 11 Earnan sons, 10 Texas Global sons, 4 sons of the very popular E10, with Edmund, Berkley, Hallam and a very eye catching Guaranteed son. Also we have a great selection of 18 months including sons of the Western Australian record breaking Coonamble Stud, Coonamble Handyman H268 (AI) (ET), whose dam is the famous Bangadang Lowan A61(AI)(ET).

Ben has travelled the globe looking for the next sires to compliment our breeding program which has seen him recently fly to America, WA, SA, VIC and NSW. We place great importance on the sires we use and make a point of seeing them and their progeny in the flesh to know exactly how consistent they will breed for our program and most importantly the flow through effects onto our clients herds. The search is endless but he is happy to do it.

The above graph illustrates the average ebvs of our sale bulls compared to the rest of the Angus breed and shows the bulls have plenty of growth, carcase, early gestation, fertility and extra dollars in your back pocket when you sell their progeny.

We would love you to join us on our open day 14th July or otherwise we look forward to seeing you on Thursday 28th of July!

TEXAS KELVIN KLEIN K542 (AI) (ET) LOT 15 Star Lot 22 mths 901kgs

E10 Son

Angus Breeding +$128 Domestic

+$116

Heavy Grain

+$134

Heavy Grass

+$127

May 2016 Angus Australia BREEDPLAN

CED CED GL BWT 200 400 600 MCW Milk SS

DC CWT EMA Rib Rump RBY IMF

EBV +2.6 +0.5 -8.0 +5.5 +54 +99 +140 +133 +18 +3.2 -2.7 +84 +5.8 -2.4 -2.2 +1.6 +1.0

TEXAS KONVERTER K117 (AI) LOT 49 Star Lot 22 mths 924kgs

GPS Son

Angus Breeding +$157 Domestic

+$132

Heavy Grain

+$177

Heavy Grass

+$147

May 2016 Angus Australia BREEDPLAN

CED CED GL BWT 200 400 600 MCW Milk SS

DC CWT EMA Rib Rump RBY IMF

EBV +2.4 +3.4 -10.3 +5.1 +56 +110 +147 +139 +17 +3.3 -5.8 +86 +5.1 +1.2 +1.2 -0.3 +2.5

Power, Presence and Performance Total Son

Lot 23 +127 600D, +2.0 SS, +7.8 EMA, +1.4 RBY, +1.5 IMF, $128 HG

Total Son

Lot 6 +4.2 BW, +118 600D, +9.1 EMA, +1.5 IMF, $123 HG

Guaranteed Son

Lot 21 +152 600D, +7.3 EMA, +3.4 SS, +1.7 RBY, $149 HG, $140 AB

GPS Son

Lot 50 -8.4 GL, +4.7 BW, +128 600D, +2.3 IMF, $147 HG, $133 AB

Reality Son

Lot 37 +4.2 CED, +2.8 BW, +107 600D, +2.9 SS, +20 MK, +1.7 IMF

Reality Son

Lot 1 +2.1 CED, +130 600D, +3.0 SS, +5.1 EMA, +2.2 IMF, $134 HG

E10 Son

Lot 22 -6.0 GL, +133 600D, +2.7 SS, +1.5 IMF, $127 HG, $119 AB

Total Son

Lot 7 +123 600D, +7.6 EMA, +1.1 RBY, +1.6 IMF, $124 HG, $121

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TEXAS SEMEN TEXAS GLOBAL G563 (AI) (ET)

Bon View New Design 1407 Sitz New Design 458N

Sitz Ellunas Elite 3308 Texas Global G563 (AI) (ET)

BT Ultravox 297E Texas Undine Z036 (AI)

Texas Undine W63 (AI)

• Top 458N PROVEN son, puppy dog quiet, slick, tight sheath and out of our best Ultravox female Z36.

• Half Share was sold to Ascot Angus for $20,000 • Global has amazing docility +18, gives softness and is a structural improver.

• Frame 7 and 1300kgs • Dam Z036 has been an excellent breeder. We continue to flush her at 13 years as she always produces easy fleshing moderate progeny with added thickness.

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$50/straw

Angus Breeding +$137 +$102 Domestic

+$127 +$100

Heavy Grain

+$149 +$103

Heavy Grass

+$132 +$101

Days CWT EMA to Calv

Rib

Rump RBY

IMF

-2.6 +4.7 +53 +104 +128 +104 +18 +3.5 -4.7 +66 +5.2 +0.8 +1.5 +0.1 +2.5

45%

62%

64%

600

SS

0.0

64%

400

MCW Milk

EBV -0.3

65%

200

May 2016 Angus Australia BREEDPLAN

Calv Ease Dtrs

52%

BWT

Brother Texas Ada F311 sold for $14,000

Calv Ease Dir Acc

GL

Dam Texas Undine Z036

64%

62%

59%

61%

37%

59%

54%

59%

Enquiries Ben Mayne 0427 295 039 or Jim Wedge 0419 714 652

59%

53%

52%

Mount K2 was purchased at the Texas Angus 2015 Bull Sale for $45,000 (Texas record top price)

by Welcome Swallow Angus and Glenoch Angus, with Texas retaining a 25% interest. K2 is a son of the Carcase/Calving King GPS and one of Australia’s most proven cows, Texas Undine Z183.

May

+4.1 +3.9 -6.5 PHENOTYPE +4.0 +57 +103 +131 +111 +18 +3.0BALANCE, -6.5 +79 +5.2 OUTSTANDING COMBINING 64% 49% 74% 78% 75% 76% 77% 74% 67% 81% 38% 67% 66% SOFTNESS AND STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS WITH

GREAT POWER AND MOBILITY ID DXTK002 (HBR) DOB 06/02/14 Frame Score 7.0 $146 Scrotal$131 Size 45cm $157 Temperament$140 1 AMFU, NHFU, CAFU, DDFU Birth Weight 27kg Sale Day Weight 824kg (18 mths) ADG 1.4kg since birth GARDENS PRIME STAR

SIRE: KC HAAS GPS KCH ELINE 549

BUSHS GRAND DESIGN

DAM: TEXAS UNDINE Z183 (AI) TEXAS UNDINE X221 (AI)

+0.7

+1.2

-0.1

+2.2

68%

67%

59%

62%

OUTCROSS PEDIGREE WITH BREED LEADING PERFORMANCE

TEXAS KINGSMEN K537 (AI) (ET) LOT 4 Total son

Lot 4 BW 5.2, +126 600D, +7.2 EMA, +1.2 RBY, +1.8 IMF, $132 HG, $125 AB - From the famous Dam Z183

TEXAS KING OF HEARTS K535 (AI) (ET) LOT 5 Total son

Lot 5 BW 5.2, +127 600D, +6.8 EMA, +1.2 RBY, +1.9 IMF, $131 HG, $123 AB - From the famous Dam Z183 Ben & Wendy Mayne P 02 6729 5039 M 0427 295 039 E texasangus2@bigpond.com

Guest Auctioneer Michael Glasser GTSM Marketing 0403 526 702

Keiren Te Velde 0427 669 097 Ben Hiscox 0429 669 313 Alex Paterson 0407 655 815 Harvey Weyman-Jones 0414 941 788 Peter Brazier 0407 525 983

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