Gandy Angus to offer 59 powerful bulls at annual sale in Boyanup

The Gandy family have prepared 59 powerful Angus bulls to be offered at their annual Gandy Angus Bull Sale at the Boyanup Saleyards on November 21, with the line-up also interfaced with AuctionsPlus. Gandy stud co-principal Kim Gandy said the catalogue ran deep with bulls that combined excellent phenotype and structure with breed leading performance and growth rates, “helping to produce profitable progeny”. The bulls are backed by pedigrees developed during Mr Gandy’s 38 years of building the stud — time wisely spent collecting traits of 400 progeny a year and genomics, along with many sale teams. This year’s team have been measured for growth and carcase traits, calving ease and birthweight, and the sale bull’s birthweights will be included in the catalogued information. Mr Gandy and wife Lex weigh calves every day during the season and observe hundreds of heifers and cows birthing. They are confident all the bulls offered in the sale will produce easily birthed calves when used on the appropriate females. “Mature cows can easily handle additional kilograms of actual birthweight which now produces a high BWT Estimated Breeding Value,” Mr Gandy said. “The additional kilos at birth produce extra kilos and dollars when selling progeny and mating females. “Lot 2, Gandy Man in Black U148, was also used in the stud and selected for his docility and growth traits, having calving ease combined with top of the breed growth.” Mr Gandy said the sale bull was easy doing and worked with ease, and one of the first LAR Man in Black sons offered in Australia, “showing a great outcross pedigree”. “Lot 3, Gandy Geddes U155, was also used in the stud and is an excellent heifer mating option with 400-day growth in the top 4 per cent of the breed that has developed into a bull with huge eye appeal and great phenotype,” he said. The sale catalogue is available online and has been posted. To find out more, contact Mr Gandy on 0428 464 699 or lex@gandyangus.com.au.