Te Atarangi is situated on the Pouto Peninsula, 25 minutes South West of Dargaville. It backs on to the west coast (300 metres from high tide and good fishing spots) and is just 4 km by road from the Kaipara Harbour to the east.
We now have 330+ paddocks on the freehold block. There is a further 40 paddocks fenced with pigtails and poly wire. Most fencing now undertaken is 2 wire electric. We now have 7 sets of yards.
Our Angus Stud began in 1988 with the purchase of 5 cows from Matauri. We now farm 300 Angus cows along side 180 cross-bred cows. We aim for a maternal animal with reasonable growth and excellent ease of calving.
We have mated yearlings since 1982. All stud cows are calved behind a hot wire with calves from the Angus tagged and weighed at birth.
3rd Dec 2024 Preg tested 116 heifers. With 81 in calf from the 28 days exposed to the bull. A very good result.
15th Oct Bulls withdrawn from cows after 42 days. Hopefully a successful mating done and dusted
SalesOn 3rd september we had a very sucessful sale. A full clearance of all 120 bulls offered at an average of $3856
Top price was $8500 with lot 3 going to repeat buyer John and Jan Marchant.
4th August 2024 we have been extremely busy in the calving paddock. We have 18 mixed age cows left to calve and 20 1st and 2nd calvers left.
A great result with 75% of cows calving in first cycle great sale
The Shack has confirmed bookings on the following dates:
2nd Jan - 12th Jan Caroline
12th Jan - 25th Jan Sam
25th Jan- 28th Jan Paton (PA)
31st Jan - 8th Feb John O
16th-18th Feb Sarah Jane (megan)
22nd - 25th feb S. Mackintosh
8th March CB
15th March-17th March WBee & AGM
18th-22nd March- CB
28th March - 5th April Megan and Eric
13th - 20th April Joanne
24th-28th April Charlotte
16th-20nd June CB
12th-13th July Sharni (CB)
14th July Charlotte
29th Sept - 4th Oct John O
19th - 20th Oct Sharni (CB)
7th Nov - 13th Nov CB
17th Dec - 23rd Dec Megan and Eric
23rd Dec-2nd Jan 2025 Jess & Tony
2nd Jan-12th Jan Joanne
13th - 19th January- Charlotte
19th Jan- 27th Jan Roberta
27th- 30th Margie
30th Jan-5th feb Harriet/Megan
7th-14th Feb K&V
21st -24th Feb Patons (PA)
27th Feb - 1st Mar Daniel Bryne (Tony and Jess)
1st - 7th March John O
7th - 10th March, Sarah Jane (megan)
14th - 16th March AGM Working bee
19th- 23rd March CB
1st - 6th April Mel/Megan
11th-12th April Sharni (CB)
16th-22nd April Margie
30th May- 2nd June Charlotte
14th- 20th June CB
20th- 22nd June Sharni (CB)
8th-9th August Patons (PA)
23rd Dec - 2nd Jan 2026
Megan and Eric
2nd Jan-12th Jan Sam
12th-22nd Jan Caroline
8th-17th Feb K&V
2nd-7th April Joseph