At Mosdene Boran Stud’s first manufacturing public sale, held on Saturday, 9 August, at Silver Lakes Farm Resort in Pretoria, Gauteng, Lot 10 (Odysseus E18-138), a Boran bull with a pedigree of legendary sires, offered for R2 million.
Picture: Mosdene Boran Stud
Described by the Mosdene group as “goosebumps lovely”, the bull was offered to Cape City-based Hein and Twiggy Biekart of Von Lieben Boran Stud.
Talking to Farmer’s Weekly, Jaco van der Walt, proprietor of Mosdene Boran Stud in Limpopo, mentioned Odysseus will mark his seventh birthday on 4 September, including that he has greater than lived as much as expectations.
“Odysseus ticks all of the bins you’ll need in a Boran bull. He’s structurally appropriate, effectively balanced, masculine, has confirmed genetics, and to prime it off, he’s a confirmed herd sire with over 200 calves on the bottom already,” mentioned van der Walt.
Odysseus’s sturdy pedigree contains legends like Impie, Cojack, Jackie, Rustin, Timmy, and TLM02-12.
The opposite 4 bulls on supply offered for a mean of R837 500, with the public sale producing greater than R8,5 million in whole turnover.
Throughout all classes, the lot common was R157 741. Costs peaked not solely on bulls but additionally on top-performing females, with in-calf cows promoting for as much as R320 000 and heifers (in-calf) reaching R220 000. Semen heaps offered for as much as R7 500.
Van der Walt additionally confirmed that Mosdene did retain a semen share from the prized bull, guaranteeing his sought-after genetics proceed to profit herds into the long run.
