Spring calving season

We are now well into our main calving season and have many beautiful strong calves cavorting around the calving paddocks. Arrival of the A.I. calves is always exciting and we have some lovely calves by some of Australia’s top bulls as well as the Canadian, Crooked Post...
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Arrival of Belmore bulls

Our new bulls have arrived from South Australia, kindly delivered by Belmore studmaster, Andy Withers. They came off the truck very quietly in the dark and were happy to settle down in the yard with their lucerne hay. Next day, we walked them out to their paddock where they...
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New bulls from Belmore

Last week we travelled to Naracoorte in South Australia to attend the Belmore Shorthorn Sale. We were delighted to have the opportunity to purchase 2 of the pick Belmore bulls: the Belmore Jackeroo son, Belmore Supercool J66 and the Adelaide Show winner, Belmore Shogun J40. Both...
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Excellent performance in Feedlot Trial

For the first time, we entered a team of steers in The Land Beef Spectacular Feedlot Trial. This is the largest feedlot trial in Australia and atttacted 95 teams of 5 steers. Our team finished 23rd as the top purebred Shorthorn team. This was a wonderful result for us!
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Summer is here!

On a 42 degree day, it is easy to see how adaptable the Shorthorn breed is.  While our cattle are sheltering from the heat here, shorthorns overseas are seeking shelter from snow in the Northern hemisphere in countries like Canada.  Our feed is drying off fast but our cows have...
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Mention in ‘Drovers Journal’

Thanks again to Tony Fountain for recognising the online presence of Toogimbie Shorthorns. Tony is doing a wonderful job publicizing our marvellous breed. His weekly bulletin provides Shorthorn news from around the globe as well as the wider cattle community. In his last...
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Heifers for sale

36 quality Toogimbie heifers will sell at the Echuca Store sale on October 6th 2014. Please ring Amanda for more details on 0428812081 or visit the FOR SALE page on this website.
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Heifer mix up

Yesterday our in calf heifers broke open the gates to get in with the weaner heifers. Today we had to yard them all to redraft them. The in calf heifers don’t need much feed as they are quite close to calving. The young heifers, however, need to be on better feed as we are...
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Mention in ‘Drovers Journal’

The Drovers Journal  is a FREE e-bulletin written by Anthony Fountain that is published each Sunday and contains news and views on Shorthorn cattle across Australia and overseas stories on early explorers and Australian pastoral history and affairs of the bush It has over 1100...
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Dubbo National Sale 2014

Congratulations to Kamilaroi Shorthorns in achieving the top price at the National Sale with Kamilaroi Meat Packer. This fine roan bull sold for $17,000 to Malton and Outback Shorthorns. We are proud to report that we have three half sisters to this bull in our herd. Out of the...
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