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Location: 50 km west of Mt Surprise and 60 km east of Georgetown.
Area & Tenure:
- 31,500 hectares (77,836 acres)
- Pastoral Holding Expires 2027
- Lot 2909 on PH1638
- Etheridge Shire
Services:
- STD phone,
- rural power,
- broadband internet
- Twice weekly mail service
- RFDS approved airstrip
Rainfall: Averages 600 mm per year
Country Type: Fertile frontage country comprises rich river flats running from the Einasleigh River and other creeks out to red pebbly ridges. Red soil flats and sand loam ridge country cover most of Tallaroo with some rocky range country surrounding the northern and parts of the western boundary. Tallaroo comprises of a healthy balance of creek frontages scatted throughout most of the paddocks.
Irrigation: 40 acres for hay production with underground mains supplied from Tallaroo Springs + dry land farming
Improvements:
- Attractive double storey homestead with brick extension including 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, living and dining room, office and school room.
- Car shed and cold room
- 2 bedroom cottage
- 2 bedroom worker's cottage, attached to hay feed shed
- 5 bay steel machinery shed with concrete floor
- Large machinery shed
- 1 hay shed
- 5 air-conditioned panelfab rooms with brick bathroom and toilet
- 2 sets of steel cattle yards
Water: Watered by 20 dams, 3 bores, 40 klm frontage to Einasleigh River and the famous Tallaroo Hot springs - These springs put out 1200 gal a hour 24/7 have never run dry. One spring is running in to a swimming pool and there is an amenity block and BBQ's set up near by, for private use.
Fencing: Well fenced into 11 large paddocks and 9 small paddocks serviced by 40 klms of laneway. Majority of fencing is new in the last 10 years
Plant: Full list on request
Comments: Good safe breeder block with good improvements lots of feed 31,500ha
Good water and 840 breeder cows + calves and bulls
The cows are mostly Santa and Droughtmaster with some soft Brahman mixed in
NO Brahman bulls
Tallaroo is one of the most developed property's in the area ( Mt. Surprise )
We have worked hard at keeping Tallaroo covered in grass and not over stocked
We have paddocks that have not seen a cow so far this year
2 Nature refuges
There is room and feed to bring cattle on asap all paddocks are stock proof
No work needed just step in and take over!
2 houses + workers quarters and 5 sheds.
Cattle:
We have bought in 4 pure Black Angus bulls "Bunya Creek Western Line" W45 by "Future Direction USA", "Bunya Creek Zeta" Z37 and "Bunya Creek Zappa" Z38 By "Burenda X-Tract" "Bunya Creek Zone" Z75 by "Raff Gardiner" and 15 stud heifers from Prue and Donald Patch, Bunya Creek stud at Dalby.
In the Red Angus we have 10 pure bred cows From Berry Reynolds IBR stud Oakey and an imported red bull from Canada we purchased from GK Red Angus Dalby, we also have a large amount of Red Angus semen to use in our Droughtmaster and Santa heifers this year.
Our Black heifers boast some impressive blood lines including "Vermilion Yellowstone USA", "Scotch Cap USA", "TC Stockman USA", "GAR Grid Maker USA", "G T Maximum USA", U"ltravoxUSA", and "C A Future Direction USA" we are breeding them to an imp black Brangus bull this year so are looking forward to some handy bull calves in late Dec 07.
Our Red Angus cows have been bred to Red Brangus bulls this year, they are "Duff Sir Lamark" Z116 and "Duff Sir Gawaine" Z118 and next year will be put in calf to our imp Red Angus Bull "GK Red Advance Australia" (ET) (AI) GK A11.
We have a line of Angus X Droughtmaster bulls on the ground now by a heard bull from Bunya Creek Y76 is by "Bunya Creek Vessel" out of a "TC Stockman" USA cow.
These are big beefy calves and most are red.
We also have a line of Droughtmaster X W45 heifers that we will AI this year to red Angus bulls, when GeneStar tested for tenderness they came back at 6 stars on the old test, we have also eaten a W45 steer and must say he is the best beef we have ever had!!
For more information and to arrange an inspection, call Mark Fennell on 0427 057 525 or (07) 4743 9499 |
