A total of 48 bulls, 21 registered and 35 commercial females went under the hammer.
Tiekie Muller of the Nooitgedacht stud at Bloemhof paid the record price of R165 000 for the three-year-old Blackpool Jakson (CS 210052) from Chris Sheard of Cathcart, Eastern Cape.
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At the start of the auction, Louwrens Erasmus from Petrusburg bid R160 000 for a bull (VL 210037) from Theuns Vlotman’s Vlotvlei stud at Brandfort. Muller achieved the highest price of R62 500 for a female animal (NP 200052).
Only 23 of the bulls on offer were sold at an average price of R71 304, compared to 2023’s average bull price of R75 625. Boetie Hattingh, chairperson of the Senepol society, attributed this trend to the possibility that too many cattle were entered in the auction.
A total of 47 females were sold. Pregnant commercial cows achieved an average price of R16 000, pregnant stud cows R27 500, pregnant commercial heifers R17 714, pregnant stud heifers R18 750, non-pregnant commercial heifers R15 735 and non-pregnant stud heifers R15 750.
The Senepol society has 43 members with about 4 000 cattle and intends to host the breed’s world congress in 2025 to celebrate its quarter of a century in South Africa.
Vleissentraal Bloemfontein hosted the auction with the help of SwiftVee, with Ian Grobbelaar as auctioneer.
In the video Basil Butler, Senepol stud farmer from Vryburg, tells us more about the Senepol breed.
