What you see is what you get at Nunniong Herefords, bulls in their working clothes ready to work.
All 35 sale bulls were lined up on display for Beef Week on Friday, January 30, at Nunniong Hereford stud in Ensay, in readiness for sale day on Wednesday, March 11.
The $56,000 horned sire, Lotus Reflect, has five sons in the catalogue, the bull Bluey bought in half shares with Angus Vever, Jindalee Herefords of Inverell.
Supple Snoopy, Karoonda Zappy and Sugarloaf Quandong have also sired half a dozen or so sons each.
“On sale day Lotus Reflect just stood out to me,” Mr Commins said, of buying the sire in 2022.
“He has perfect skin and structure, just everything was right about him.
“He even had good figures and a good size about him, something I’m trying to keep in my Herefords.
“There’s money in weight, they make more money in the meatworks with more weight.”
Mr Commins said they had sold a lot of semen up north from Lotus Reflect.
Mr Commins said the Dubbo grand champion Hereford of 2023, Valley View Sandman, also had sired “quite a few handy ones” in the lineup.
He said his offering of bulls this year included more polled bulls than horned, with the polled cows having a better joining that year, and he began breeding registered bulls in his early 20s, making it close to his 40th anniversary.
Nunniong has been involved with the Beef Week Open Day for 30 years – not a bad feat in the event’s 35-year history.
