News

17th February 2012

Billa Park's first ever Leading Ladies and Genetics Sale is drawing near, sale date being the 13^th April 2012. The sale will be conducted as an AuctionsPlus-only sale online, giving buyers the chance to bid on lots from the comfort of their home or office in a low pressure environment.

Billa Park will offer 50 female lots along with semen and embryos. A range of females will be on offer from cows with calves, PTIC females, as well as young heifers. Due to expansion, the Billa Park herd has experienced a huge growth period – so we simply have no more room, hence the sale of some of our quality animals. Also on offer will be fully imported semen of Double Bar D Everest, a Canadian polled outcross bull, and the first offering of the Canadian sire Wheatland Bull 680S sired embryos to be available in Australia. A viewing day for the chance to inspect the lots on offer will occur on-property at ‘Glengyle’, Dulacca Qld, on Easter Saturday and Sunday – 7^th and 8^th April 2012 (or by prior arrangement). All genuine bidders and buyers are to register 48 hours prior to the sale on AuctionsPlus. Online bidding is available only to registered users. Registration is free - visit www.auctionsplus.com.au to register.

Catalogues will be available for viewing on our Auctions page shortly or hard copies will also be available. Please contact us on the details given here >> to register your interest in obtaining a hard copy of the catalogue.

10th February 2012

Billa Park kicks off the year with a purchase of an outstanding young sire, 14 month-old Waterfront Florian-F242 (ET) from Matt Parker, at Waterfront Simmental's 5th Annual Premier Genetics Sale, Tintinara SA. Scott considered Florian to be a standout in a line of potential sires he viewed during his time down there, so we are looking forward to his arrival in Qld in the near future. Considering the complete package this young bull represents now, we are excited to watch him develop further and look forward to some impressive progeny in years to come!

To view Florian's pedigree, click here >>

18th December 2011

Scott, Claire, Tom, Zoe, Wayne, Ingrid, Luke, Stacey, Lachlan and Maddison wish to extend our warmest wishes for a happy, safe and memorable Christmas and festive season to all of our clients, supporters and followers in 2011. Furthermore, we hope that 2012 is a successful, memorable and happy year for you all - backed-up with continuing good seasons and consequent productive paddocks!

Merry Christmas!

17th December 2011

The flush of Scott and Claire's new black dam Triple C Smarty Pants R SOLD at the 17th Annual Checkers Simmental Sale, Alberta, Canada for $7,250 CAD. We are extremely happy with this result and in awe of the prices and overall outcome of the sale.

To view details on the overall sale results, click on the link below, our lot being on page 38.

17th Annual Checkers Sale Results Report 2011 >>

25th November 2011

A successful flush of Scott and Claire's new black dam Triple C Smarty Pants R will be offered at the 17th Annual Checkers Simmental Sale, Alberta, Canada on the 17th December 2011.

View the sale catalogue online using the link below, our lot being on page 40.

17th Annual Checkers Sale Catalogue >>

20th November 2011

Scott and Claire are proud to announce the purchase of their foundation dam for our BLACK & RED SIMMENTAL venture, Triple C Smarty Pants R. Due to increasing popularity in Black Simmentals in Australia, we seized the opportunity to add these genetics to our repetoire and co-exist with our ever-expanding family-owned Billa Park Simmental and Simbrah operation. With this move, we are confident that Billa Park will become your 'One Stop Shop for Simmental Genetics'.

Triple C Smarty Pants R

Scott and Claire purchased Smarty Pants in conjunction with Brian Bouchard, Bouchard Livestock International, at the Remington Land and Cattle Final Drive sale in Canada, October 2011. She was the top-priced Simmental cow at the sale at $22,500. The polled Smarty Pants is a proven dam, her ET calves already on the gound are a testament to her quality and pedigree. In addition to the purchase of Smartypants, we also took ownership of 10 LFE Katarina 604N/Wheatland Bull 680S (Canadian homozygous-polled, homozygous-black super sire) embryos, as well as 5 BBN Ms Queen in Black 11S/ LFE Black Lakota 385W (Canadian homozygous polled sire) embryos, some of which are currently undergoing a transfer program at a facility in southern Qld.

Wheatland Bull 680S

With the successful calves due to drop in Spring 2012, we're very excited to see where these new genetics take us!

LFE Black Lakota 385W

14th October 2011

View our ad in the 2011 Simmental Annual, which includes details on our upcoming

to be held on the 13th April 2012, by clicking here (PDF 1.2MB) >>

3rd October 2011

Billa Park introduces its latest acquisition: The Rivers Macauley 212 (AI) (ET) (P) purchased at Brahman Week, CQLX for $24,000. Macauley's purchase marks the start of our foray into Simbrah genetics alongside our ever-increasing Simmental herd. With his polled head, pink nose and overall muscling and bone structure - he is the perfect sire for our venture and we are excited about the prospective progeny resulting from Macauley and our promising up-and-coming young females in the Billa Park herd....Stay tuned!

View Macauley's pedigree, EBVs etc by clicking here >>

The Rivers Macauley

16th September 2011

Roma Simmental and Simbrah sale results in 100% clearance to a top of $7,500, gross sale total of $246,500 with the Simmentals sires averaging $4,760 and Simbrahs averaging $3,600. Billa Park acheive a pleasing average of $4,531 with our draft topping at $6,000 twice.

Lot 18, Billa Park 018 sold for $6,000 to A & K Mayes, Wandoan Qld

Lot 24, Billa Park 002 sold for $6,000 to J Barber, Proston Qld

29th August 2011

The 2011 BCM Simmental Sale, held at CQLX Gacemere, results in $202,000 Gross Sale total, with 100% clearance and an overall sale average of $4,391.

Billa Park sells the equal-top priced bull at $8,500, as well as the highest vendor average at $4,722. Sale highlights for Billa Park include:

Lot 9, Billa Park 039 (P) sold for $8,500 to Bill Braun, Quirindi NSW

Lot 10, Billa Park E037 (sc) sold for $6,500 to Bill Braun, Quirindi NSW

Lot 45, Billa Park 042 (P) sold for $7,000, second-top priced bull of the sale, to John and Jan Burnett, Clermont.

31st July 2011

The Billa Park Bull Preview is now available for the 2011 bull sales.
Click here to view (PDF 2mb) >>

2nd July 2011

With both the BCM and Roma Sales quickly approaching, both drafts are being sorted and prepared, with the bulls shaping-up nicely. Stay tuned for up-to-date pictures and details of the sale bulls in the upcoming weeks on the Auctions page (Sales section) of our site. Pictured is BCM sale bull Billa Park E37 (Sc).

26th June 2011

Billa Park Poll Churchill's first drop of calves, now at weaning age, weighed-in
with some impressive results: topping at 494kg and averaging 317kg for the
weaners and 229kg for younger calves.

4th June 2011

14 year-old donor dam Boorang Sibyl delivers some impressive Genestar results: scoring within the top 5% of the breed for feed efficiency, and within the top 20% for tenderness.

30th May 2011

Our newly-purchased Canadian sire Anchor D Midas 52X has just completed collection with a whopping 522 doses in a week. We look forward to seeing where these genetics will take the herd.

2nd March 2011

Billa Park secures pleasing results at All Breeds Sale Rockhampton. Top $5000. Avg $3000 100% Clearance

29th February 2011

The first of our 2011 Embryo calves hit the ground. Very impressive.

15th February 2011

In conjunction with Dwayann Simmentals, Canada, Billa Park purchased

Anchor D Midas 52X

Midas is our new Outcross Sire and will be our Main A.I Sire through 2011.