John and Fiona Glover are looking forward to welcoming old and new friends and clients to the 2025 Wattlewood Angus Beef Week open day and bull sale preview on Sunday, February 2.
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The Wattlewood team have been working towards preparing a strong line-up of 35 bulls for visitors to view in preparation for the 2025 Wattlewood Angus bull sale on Friday, March 7 at noon.
After the closure of the VLE Pakenham saleyards, the Elders-Delaney and SEJ agents have come up with a new day and date to suit all parties with their clients in mind.
Once again, the bulls are naturally quiet, have been genotyped, semen-tested and are Immune Ready compliant being PI Negative and having been vaccinated with all the required vaccines (7in1, Pestigard, Vibrovax and Rhinogard), making them ‘ready to work’.
Fiona, an artificial insemination technician, jokes and says, “the bulls are frustrated at Wattlewood and are probably looking forward to the sale too, and ending up with a paddock full of cows or heifers”.
Another highlight for the stud this coming sale, is the offering of ‘the pick of the pair’ where two top-of-the-drop yearling heifers will be put up at the auction and all proceeds will go to the Biggest Morning Tea for Cancer Council Australia.
The successful bidder on the heifers is able to select the heifer of their choice that has also had all her health checks done and is phenotypically an outstanding heifer with terrific pedigree, EBVs and genomic data.
“We are excited to be able to support the Biggest Morning Tea and all the work they do in cancer awareness, prevention and research to, of course, help find reliable early detection methods, and ultimately curing this horrible disease that effects too many friends and family,” Fiona said.
With the heifers comes a great starter package for a budding young stud breeder or for the astute cattle producer alike.
The Angus Society has donated a membership, a registration for the heifer’s first calf, a genomic test as well as some great merchandise, while ABS has donated a $200 semen voucher to join the heifer, and The Cattle Shop has donated a halter, nose lead and a comb, should the purchaser choose to continue her show career in the future.
The Wattlewood team will have the kettle hot with their good, old-fashioned hospitality and be ready to have a chat about their genetics and their program with visitors to the open day.
Wattlewood Angus is at 75 Heads Rd, Lang Lang, Victoria.For more information, or to arrange another day to visit if you can’t make it on February 2, call Fiona on 0416 216 951.
Wattlewood Usher U98, Wattlewood Unforgettable U51 and Wattlewood Uniform U44 at Wattlewood Angus.
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