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Basalt was purchased for $32,000 , the top price at the 2007 Rosevale Annual Sale

Basalt is a polled bull and he was purchased for his exceptional weight for age and growth characteristics, with his extreme length, exceptionally quiet temperament and positive reproductive traits, he is a bull that could be used extensively in any herd.

Gyranda Atom was purchased in 2006 from the Gyranda Annual Sale for the top price of $26,000. He was chosen for weight for age, excellent muscle,  extremely quiet temperament and doing ability.  After arriving and working in the toughest year on record at Cardowan, he has held his condition right through winter, so he has proven to have the constitution we are looking for . Of course he passed our preliminary hurdles for sound feet and legs, high semen morphology and a clean sheath, with no navel stump, rosette or pockets in front of the sheath.    After passing the visual and vet assessment his pedigree was backed up by an excellent set of EBVs.  Look out for his sons in 2009.

Dangarfield Nitrate was purchased in 2005 from the Dangarfield Annual Sale for the top price of $32,000. His exceptional growth and muscle, excellent sheath and testicles and correct structure made him a stand-out.  He is handling the tough country well.  His first season he achieved a 93% positive preg-test, with 61 cows tested in calf.  Look out for his sons in 2008.

Handyman has impressed us with his constitution, handling very tough seasons on dry pasture, and holding his excellent condition in all seasons. His sons and daughters are easy doing and large-framed .  Handyman was purchased from Swan Hill in 2003 for the top price of $8250.00. We are delighted with his temperament and fertility. Handyman calves stand out every year for their high growth, excellent muscle pattern and clean sheath. Handyman is breeding many polled calves. 

Photo taken at 5 years of age. Pasture fed whole of life. 983 kg liveweight

Greenup Yankee W760 (P) is a son of Gyranda Yankee. This is W760’s 2nd calf crop and his progeny are reflecting his extremely correct structure and fertility traits.

We have retained a number of his sons, and his daughters are ‘stand-outs’. From a carcase perspective he has a great muscle pattern and his maturity pattern enables progeny to be turned off at any age. This is a reflection of his constitution and high growth and finishing ability at all stages of his life. With a testicle size of 42cm, this high libido, polled bull with an awesome sheath is hard to go past. For three seasons W760’s semen morphology has ranged from 97% to 87%.

Sadly Yankee died from an unknown cause in September 2007.  We will miss this magnificent sire whose muscle and constitution were incredible under the most trying of seasons.  He has left an wonderful legacy in his sons and daughters that display his polledness,  tidy underlines, gentle nature and awesome doing ability.  

Thanks for everything Yankee, you were the first of our homebred sires we kept, you will always have a place in our hearts as a standout foundation sire.  You came along when we needed you and made a huge contribution  - we will miss you!

The last of Yankee's progeny will be offered in 2008 & 2009.

Greenup X-hibitionist Y44 was retained as Rick’s top choice from the 2004 draft of bulls. He was selected for his muscle pattern and constitution. His outstanding constitution and ability to retain muscle and condition stands-out in these tough winters. His carcase traits and very quiet temperament are showing through in his first calves, weaned in 2006. Y44 is a son of the very consistent Rosevale X-hibitionist V164 and out of the high performing cow Greenup Megan V833.

Zipcode is a son of Francesco and he exhibits his father's upstanding sire appeal.  He was retained from the 2005 draft of bulls for his complete package of attributes.  Zipcode has breed character, a dark coat, extremely tidy sheath, large testicles (41 cm) structural correctness, balanced figures and excellent carcase attributes.  Zipcode is demonstrating his excellent doing ability under tough conditions.  His first sons will be offered in 2008.

Zazazoom was retained from the 2005 draft for his outstanding weight for age and impressiveness from birth.  He has an extremely quiet temperament.  This clean coated bull has a trim sheath, large testicles (41cm) and good muscling.  His first sons will be offered in 2008.

Z634 was loaned from Eidsvold Station for the 2006 breeding season.  He is by the high performing sire Eidsvold Station Q101.  He was selected for his balanced EBVs, great muscle pattern and tidy sheath.

Rosevale X-hibitionist V168 is one of our leading sires.  His progeny exhibit great volume and excellent sheath and structure.  V168 was retained for use in the stud because of his muscle and early sexual maturity. He has bred a line of calves that are real carcass cattle.

Rosevale Rippon X74

X74 was the supreme bull of our 2001 born calves. We retained him for use in the Greenup Stud due to his explosive growth, even finish and extremely correct sheath, legs and fertility traits. He has consistently passed these traits onto his progeny.

X74 completed the 2003 breeding season and unfortunately died the following winter from an unknown cause. This is the first of his progeny.  

Moongana Puggles has one of the most balanced set of Breedplan EBVs of all proven Santa Gertrudis sires.  His mature weight was 1266 kg.  He combines high growth with early sexual maturity, muscle and finishing ability.  As well as these feature Puggles was a high serving bull.  hos sons have good sheaths, excellent muscling and his daughters have well-structured, sound udders.  Thirty three of his sons have sold at auction to average $5083.  These include W105 who sold to the Walker family of "Tara" Stud for $16,000 in 1998 and Puggles X53 who sold in 1999 to Bill & Sandra Henzell's "Kooyong" Stud for $9000.

Puggles semen was used on a select group of heifers in our 2003 AI program. 

Rosevale Beaumon X71 possesses the quiet nature, good front and back feet of the Murrumbo Beaumon line.

Beaumon X71 breeds very correct sons with low birthweight.  Consider this sire line for your heifers.

Twenty of his sons have sold at auction to date to average $4,450. They include  Beaumon V300 who sold to Glen & Sharon Yeates,  Tyndale Stud in 2002 for $10,000 and Beaumon W676 to Russell and Christine Smyth,  Balgree Stud for $7,500.

Jeremiah is being used with our commercial Santa cows to breed superior herd bulls.

Horizon was purchased from Swan Hill in 2003 for the 2nd top price.  A large volume bull that weighed 1026 kg at time of purchase, he was bought for the purpose of lifting the frame of our smaller cows and was used in the commercial herd in the subsequent season.  He has succeeded in this role and his quiet disposition is also breeding through.  Horizon measured 41cm in his testicles and his semen morphology was consistently high.

Rosevale Jeremiah X291 (P) is a well-muscled, easy doing, polled bull. He is out of a very fertile dam who had nine claves in nine years. He is the sire of the top growth bull Greenup Zazazoom Z110, who we have retained in the Greenup Stud.

Jeremiah is being used with our commercial Santa cows to breed superior herd bulls.

Contact information

You are always welcome at Cardowan to view the upcoming sale bulls and our breeding cows.  Contact Rick & Alice Greenup to discuss your herd's needs on;

Telephone;

617-4164 4260

Facs

617-4164 4419

Postal address

"Cardowan" MS 514 KUMBIA QLD 4610. Australia

Electronic mail

greenup@burnett.net.au