Contact Guy Martin, 1908 Rhyanna Road, Taralga 2580 Phone 02 4840 6182 or email us We currently have a number of bulls for sale - Angus, Fleckvieh, and Fleckvieh/Angus: Autumn drop bulls - rising 15 months; and Spring drop bulls - rising 21 months. Our bulls have [...]
First-time entrants set the benchmark * Wirrabilla Fleckvieh/Angus steer was the highest scoring individual steer out of 600 steers trialled * Wirrabilla Fleckvieh/Angus team placed equal 8th out of 120 Out of the 600 steers entered in the competition, the highest scoring individual steer was [...]
Wirrabilla Fleckvieh & Angus focuses on producing top performing cattle for a commercial operation. We emphasise breeding bulls that will give the purchaser an ideal vealer calf that has the ability to perform above average both off grass and in the feedlot. We target high [...]
Bar 5 SA Burner 825R: In 2006 Bar 5 SA Burner 825R, The Royal Grand Champion Bull 2006, sold for $37,000 Canadian dollars for a half interest. It set a new record for a Canadian Grand Champion Bull and a Royal record for the sale [...]
Duncan Makeig purchased the property ‘The Meadows’ at Taralga from Jeff Knox in 2002 and subsequently renamed the property ‘Wirrabilla’. When the property was sold, Jeff Knox, through Knox Farms, dispersed his Fleckvieh stud herd and part of this was acquired by Duncan Makeig. Jeff [...]
Wirrabilla Peta B018 is a grand matron in our herd. Rarely does a cow come along that has it all - structure, growth, milk and temperament. From South African bloodlines she invariably throws brilliant calves - thick and deep. She has the added bonus of [...]
The cycles of joining, calving and weaning at Wirrabilla go on regardless of the weather and we are currently coming to the end of our Autumn 2016 calving. We have 16 mostly polled Bar 5 SA Burner 825R x Wirrabilla Peta E025 calves on the [...]
The rain in January 2016 augured well for autumn at Wirrabilla. Despite the presence of an El Nino weather pattern, we had been feeling confident about the season ahead of us. What a difference a couple of months can make – we are now feeding [...]
Rainfall to date has been 40+ mm. Pastures have responded quickly to the rain at our southern tablelands property with clover shooting to the two leaf stage. Cattle are grazing fresh green feed along with variable cover of old dry feed making a good combination. [...]
