Ayrvale Queanbeyan Q78
A yearling heifer, Lot 25, Ayrvale Queanbeyan Q78, topped the unjoined maiden heifers on offer selling for $11,000 to Mark Barnett, Barnett Angus, Westbury, Tasmania.
Hotly contested the Lot 25 heifer's grand dam B32 was the dam of sire Ayrvale Bartel E7 and presented in the top one percent for calving ease, marbling and heavy grain indexes.
"I'm delighted to secure her. She is a very well-bred heifer with great carcase attributes, a beautiful phenotype, and very high in IMF (+4.4) which is what the industry wants," Mr. Barnett said.
"We run a small herd of very elite performance cattle at our Westbury property and a female like this rarely comes along with the statistics this heifer has. She is a real foundation female and destined for our IVF program at Geelong's Dr. Richard Fry's IVF Centre to be put to multiple sires before heading home to Tasmania," he said.
