Female Sales

Results of the Female Sale 2005

The 2nd Annual Westholme Wagyu Sale was conducted at Tarana on April 29th 2005 with solid prices achieved. All 42 Bull Lots and 20 Female Lots sold with no injuries to people or cattle.

All 20 Females offered were sold at an average price of A$6,632: Prices can be referred to against each Female Lot in the catalogue by referring to the Annual Sale archive below.

Lot F1: $8,750	Lot F6: $5,250	Lot F11: $8,200	Lot F16: $5,500
Lot F2: $6,000	Lot F7: $7,750	Lot F12: $8,300	Lot F17: $5,400
Lot F3: $4,000	Lot F8: $7,800	Lot F13: $5,000	Lot F18: $7,200
Lot F4: n/a	Lot F9: $7,600	Lot F14: $5,250	Lot F19: $6,000
Lot F5: $8,200	Lot F10: $7,750	Lot F15: $5,250	Lot F20: $6,800

Snapshots from Sale Day - Click on the picture to enlarge

		<< Simon Winston Smith; Chris Walker: Bret Prosser: Don Nicol. Simon & Bret of Bengalla Pastoral Holdings, Yelarbon QLD. Successful buyers of Lot 5 Hirashige-hiro & Lot 27 Teruyoshi-doi.
	<< Chris Walker; Linda Witham; Scott Hughes; Tony Abel of AgReserves - Successful Bull buyers
		<< Jerome Hayden. Australian Wagyu Beef Network, Multi Lot buyer.
	<< David Slack of Tovanakus, Glouster NSW. Successful buyer of top selling Bull Lot 22 Terutakara-doi, A son of 003.
		<< Ewen Stewart of Cottawalla Farm, Burraga. Buyer of Lot 30 Terushige-doi, a son of 003.
	<< Anthony Moxey, Cornerstone Livestock, Manilla, NSW, Multi Lot buyer

Below is the archived announcement for the 2005 Annual Sale.

The first ever Sale of Westholme Wagyu Females, April 29th.

The Females chosen for this sale vary in age from 2 years (Y drop) to 6 years (U drop). The older cows have all been flushed for good results. Every Female has been pregnancy tested in calf by Doug Fowler of Australian Livestock Scanning Services on 3 March 2005, and many also have a calf at foot.

All Females in this sale have either been GeneSTAR tested for a 2 star result or both parents are 2 star thus resulting in 2 star females. Where one parent is 2 star and the other 1 star we have listed the lot as 1 star.

Westholme has not yet parent verified the calves and our embryo experiences and calf swapping experiences show that in a small percentage of calves there is an error in parentage. Because of this Westholme cannot at this stage 100% guarantee the parentage of calves as published.

The full printed sale catalogue will be mailed out in early April. To register for a catalogue, please email here, or fax or phone through your details.

20 FEMALES

Fullblood Black Wagyu to be Auctioned (unreserved from opening bid)
See below to for full details. At this time there are no photos available.

Lot	Tag	Name	DOB	Sire	PTIC to	CAF	Calf DOB
F1	U0006	YOSHIMORI	27/04/1999	002	Y0117	M	3/11/2004
F2	U0060	KAZUKO	24/07/1999	003	Y0269	no
F3	V0155	HATSU	05/12/2000	003	Y0107	no
F4	W0245	ITSUKI	14/08/2001	003	Y0100	no
F5	X0086	YAMASAKURA	01/04/2002	003	KATSUMI	M	29/09/2004
F6	X0106	OHYURIHIME	03/04/2002	003	Y0107	M	5/10/2004
F7	X0266	KUNIE	18/09/2002	003	Y0269	F	30/09/2004
F8	X0285	YUKIKO	23/09/2002	003	Y0269	M	1/10/2004
F9	X0309	SHIGEKIYO	24/09/2002	003	Y0269	M	1/10/2004
F10	X0310	SHIGENOMIYA	24/09/2002	001	Y0075	F	20/10/2004
F11	X0325	TERUMITSU	26/09/2002	003	Y0269	M	20/10/2004
F12	X0338	TERUTOMI	27/09/2002	003	Y0269	F	1/10/2004
F13	Y0017	SHOUEI	20/03/2003	001	003	no
F14	Y0045	TERUKA	27/03/2003	003	Y0269	no
F15	Y0119	KUSUNOKI	01/05/2003	MICHIFUKU	003	no
F16	Y0136	YAMATENOMIYA	04/05/2003	KATSUMI	001	no
F17	Y0168	SHIGEKINU	08/05/2003	001	003	no
F18	Y0190	TERUSAKAE	11/05/2003	007	003	no
F19	Y0261	TERUSHIKA	09/06/2003	003	Y0269	no
F20	Y0270	TERUSHICHI	11/06/2003	003	Y0094	no

Download the Printed Sale Catalogue

The Westholme 2005 Bull + Female Sale catalogue is 40 pages in total, so for quicker download speed we have split in into 4 sections as follows:

Section 1 - pages 1-11. Click to Download
Contains all the important details, map, reference sires & EBV information.

Section 2a - pages 12-19. Click to Download
Contains Lots 1-21 Bull details.

Section 2b - pages 20-27. Click to Download
Contains Lots 22-42 Bull details.

(BULLS - NOTE: There are colour photos here on the website which are clearer than those in the download. Click for online Bull pages with colour photos)

Section 3 - pages 28-40. Click to Download
Contains the 20 Female details and advertisers etc. (note: the Female pages are here, same as in the catalogue - Click for online Female pages)

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Westholme Females

Largest Female Wagyu herd to leave Japan

Westholme purchased and exported to USA, 84 Japan born and registered Wagyu Fullblood breeding females. These females varied in Japan registration status from calf registration to Kihon (x20) and Hongen (x11) - the highest available status. Following collection of thousands of embryos from these females, the subsequent discovery of BSE in Japan led to the eventual purchase of the Westholme Japan exported females by the USDA (USA) and CFIA (Canada) followed by their euthanasia and autopsy. They were found completely clear of BSE in this testing procedure.

Japan Wagyu females generally fall into two groups:

Donor = Breeding female used for embryo production. Donor of embryos.

Recipient = Receiver of donor embryos (surrogate mother)

In Japan there is almost no natural mating of Wagyu.

One of the major contributors to the high quality of Japanese Wagyu in Japan is that only top quality male calves are kept as bulls and their semen is collected and distributed on a very restricted basis. Similarly top quality female calves are kept to become donors of embryos created by artificial matings with top quality registered Wagyu sires.

Westholme is developing its herd of donors on a gradual basis after culling of unsuitable breeding females. Our Wagyu herds previously in Canada, Texas & now solely in Australia are all based on Japan born and registered donors exported from Japan mated to semen from our 6 Japan registered sires 001, 002, 003 located at Hawkeye in Iowa and 005, 006, 007 previously located in Japan with semen exported to the USA.

Some of the donors based at Westholme Tarana NSW are shown in the following pictures. Details are as follows:-

Donors	Click onto photo for enlargement	Pedigree

U008		UO8 is a daughter of Dam W3 by Sire 003 and has been mated back to Sire 001. view U08 certificate

U013		U13 is a daughter of R18 by Sire 003 and has been mated back to Sire 002. view U13 certificate

U022		U22 is a full flush sister to U13 and has also been mated back to Sire 002. view U22 certificate

U024		U24 is a full flush sister to U08 and has similarly been mated back to Sire 001. view U24 certificate

U040		U40 is also from Dam R18 sired by 003 and has been mated back to Sire 002. view U40 certificate

U041		U41 is from Dam R25 by Sire 001 and has been mated back to Sire Sire 003. view U41 certificate

U060		U60 is from Dam 764497 by Sire 003 and has been mated back to Sire 001. view U60 certificate

V043		V43 is from Dam Y42 by Sire 001 and has been mated back to Sire 003. view V43 certificate

For further information on Sires mentioned here, refer to the Sires Page on this website.