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The first week in March brought huge changes for us – and the Ardcairnie bulls remaining available for purchase. All have moved west – the humans to a new home on 100 acres just south of Harvey and the bulls to our son’s farm about ten minutes further south at Wokalup. There are seven currently…

An unexpected phone call from a client who bought one bull in 2018 and another in 2020 saying how delighted he is with their performance and their progeny and the temperament of the bulls and the progeny. Always good to have such calls, even though he was somehow unaware that we had sold the stud…

We sincerely thank you all for your involvement in our part of the bovine industry and look forward to continuing those friendships into the future; we have made very many valued good friends over the years. We were very happy with the results of our final sale – read more about it on the Bull…

Withdrawals from a sale catalogue are not unusual and Ardcairnie Angus is no exception.  At this stage, 26th January 2021, there are seven withdrawals from the 61 bulls catalogued.  One is a permanent withdrawal, Lot 55/Q282, as he is a carrier for one of the genetic conditions for which Angus Australia has tests.  Not using or…

Our 2021 group of sale bulls have a mix of new and well proven sires, and while 22 sires are represented in the team, they are a fairly even line. Ardcairnie F96 (Cohort 3, Angus Sire Benchmarking Program) progeny are again in the mix: his consistency in producing good offspring alongside many leading sires we…

This month, after the sale of the stud in October, all the Ardcairnie Angus stud animals have been trucked to their new home with the Dewar Family at Guilderton – cows, their 2020 born calves, the pregnant heifers and the herd bulls. Remaining on the farm (sold to three local farmers who take over on…

The farm was sold at auction by Elders Real Estate on Friday 23 October 2020 to a syndicate of three local farmers.  The Ardcairnie Angus stud has also been sold to a Western Australian beef producer – more information on the sale of the animals and the future of the stud will follow in due…

After much thought, Jim and Pam McGregor have decided 2021 is the time to move on to the next stage of their lives. The last bull sale under their ownership will be held on Tuesday 2nd February, 2021. The land will be auctioned on Friday 23rd October 2020 with settlement at the end of February…

The cattle are all looking well so supplementary feeding has stopped apart from a little hay for the cow AI mob.  There’s one ‘pet’ calf who is currently grazing the fenced orchard.  That’s her in the photo enjoying her morning (and afternoon) milk and pellets. The last four bulls have all been sold – one…

Calving continues at Ardcairnie Angus with all the heifers now calved and about 40 cows to still produce their little ones by mid-July.  Numbers of males and females fluctuates (as always) and in the end, there’s usually fairly equal numbers. Feeding of all six mobs has continued – hay for the cows and calves, pellets…