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SIRES
Granite Ridge places a huge focus on sourcing the right sires, the bulls that will continue the improvement of our herd and therefore the results that you the customer will see in the improvement of your herds, being measured at your time of sale with more $$$$$. We have an impressive line-up of herd sires which are sourced Australia wide as well as some home grown stand-outs, to which we add year on year.
Booroomooka R44
BORN: 16/08/2020
Purchased in September 2022 for $40,000 R44 was purchased as a heifer bull for his low birth and great gestation length. A very quiet easy doing sire with huge fats EBVs while still maintaining positive EMA, IMF and Growth traits. The first of his sons will be on offer in our 2025 bull sale.
TeMania Mortlake M1484
BORN: 17/09/2016
Purchased in March 2018 for $26000 Te Mania Mortlake M1484 is a large powerful sire with good all round figures. He is known here at Granite Ridge as a very quite and gentle giant. He is breeding extremely well with a lot of his progeny looking like a mirror image of their old man. The first of his sons will be on offer in our 2021 bull sale.
Koojan Hills Tradesman T306
BORN: 18/4/2022
Purchased in June 2023 Koojan Hills Tradesman Has a top notch pedigree and an excellent Phenotype with the EBVs to match. When purchased he was one of only a hand full sires that was better than breed average for EVERY EBV trait listed. Semen rights have been purchased By Semex Australia with straws available for sale. The first of his sons will be on offer in our 2026 bull sales.
Landfall Lroenzo R1470
BORN: 9/08/2020
Purchased in March 2022 Landfall Lorenzo is a long powerful sire with good carcass and growth figures. A sire that displays great docility, excellent structure and is producing some of the best looking females in our heifer group . The first of his sons will be on offer in our 2025 bull sale.
Granite Ridge Mastermind M87
BORN: 27/03/2016
Granite Ridge Mastermind M87 is a Milwillah Gatsby G279 son out of a Rosebud cow. He is in the top 2% for EMA and top 3% for IMF. The first of his impressive sons will be featured in the 2021 bull sale
TeMania Foe VTMF734
BORN: 31/08/2010
Foe has brought so much to our herd and through his sons has brought amazing value to numerous other herds. 8 sons sold in 2017 for a top of $25,000 and an average of $10,500. We have now sold 42 Foe sons at auction for a high of $52,000 and an average of $8,300.
TeMania Foe F734 was purchased as Top Priced Bull at the TeMania Bull Sale in 2012, we were impressed with his impeccable structure and depth of heel, his outstanding phenotype and impressive EBV’s, being smooth sided, long and deep. Foe has lived up to all our expectations and more.
Granite Ridge Kaiser SJKK26
BORN: 24/03/2014
Kaiser K26 is an extra special Foe son, being our 2016 Sale Topper at $52,000, being sold to Alan & Jan Robinson of Jarobee Angus, Beechworth NSW. Out of an exceptional Supreme cow, Kaiser has a lot going for him. His conformation is outstanding, being long, smooth sided and deep, being finished off with a very slick coat. Kaiser is in the top 2% for all Dollar Indexes and gestation length, with calving ease and moderate birth. His calves are easily born followed by explosive growth, being in top 1% for all growth EBV’s. His first sons will sell in 2019.
Granite Ridge Jurassic SJKJ76
BORN: 03/03/2013
Jurassic J76 has a strong pedigree being sired by Foe out of the exceptional Imran Rosebud D81. He is upstanding with a plenty of bone and capacity. Jurassic’s sons sold well at the Ireland Angus Spring Sale, being the sale topper at $16,000 and 10 sons selling for an average of $7,400.
First sons sell at Granite Ridge in 2018.
Texas All Black DXTJ600
BORN: 29/07/2013
Purchased in 2015 at the Texas Bull Sale for $30,000, All Black is a bull with eye appeal, a big strong heavily built, deep bodied bull. He has good bone, a great head, and soft, black as black skin, being very quiet and structurally correct, backed up by a nice balance of figures. Calving ease, moderate birth weight, strong growth and plenty of carcase quality. First sons sell in 2018.
Rennylea K447 NORK447
BORN: 26/07/2014
Rennylea K447 was purchased at the Rennylea 2016 Bull Sale for $20,000. He was chosen for his mix of positive fat with extra frame and growth, being in the top 3% for rib fat and in the top 2% for 200, 400, 600 day weight and carcase weight. Add this to strong calving ease and a shorter Gestation Length, large scrotal and IMF +3.9 and being in top 1% for all Dollar Indexes – he has amazing figures. Better still – he looks the part. First sons sell 2019.
Texas Western Express DXTK524
BORN: 25/07/2014
Western Express K524 was purchased at the Texas 2016 Bull Sale for his breeding pedigree and extra length and excellent phenotype. We have been impressed with the sons of Bangadang Western Express E10 and K524’s dam is an exceptional donor cow. He is a powerful growth bull with extra length and thickness.
Clunie Range Miles NBHM425
BORN: 08/07/2016
Purchased at the Clunie Range 2017 Sale as a yearling for $13,000. A larger framed Matauti Reality son with impeccable structure and excellent temperament. Miles has a curve bending spread of figures, Calving Ease and Gestation Length in the top 2% of the breed followed by growth in the top 10% of the breed and to top this off he is in the top 5% for all Dollar Indexes. We have high hopes for this young fellow.