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.
As we close out the 2021 year
We have had a very good spring and in December we are looking very good for grass. All stock are looking good. We have preg tested our first calving heifers (getting 86 in calf from 115 to the bull) this was with only 28 days exposed to the bull. The older cows have also been preg tested with very few MT from 43 days exposed to the bull. We expect the younger cows (2 and 3 year old) to have a bigger MT rate as they were very light at calving after 2 very dry summers and no autumn this year.
Sales
We had a very successful sale, offering 114 bulls and selling 106 for an average of $3633 and a top price of $8800 and 2 bulls going to stud. 1 to Maranui (top price) and 1 to Mangaotea (at $8000).
The Shack has confirmed bookings on the following dates:
2021 bookingth-3rd January-10th January Roberta
14th Jan- 30th Jan Samuel
30th - ? Margie??
31st - 4th Feb Jess
9th feb - 16th feb John O
19th - 21st feb Linda, Jess and Tony
19th-21st March Simon, Jess and Tony
1st April - 9th April Kim & Viv
16th - 26th april Jess and Tony
4th - 7th June Charlotte
11th June - 23rd June CB
15th July - 18th July Charlotte
23/24 July Carla (K&V)
10/11 Sept Carla (K&V)
24Th Sept - 27th Sept Caroline
30th Sept -5Th Oct John O
21st - 25th Oct McIntosh, Jess and Tony
10th - 29th Dec Margie
29th Dec -7th Jan 2022 Caroline
29th Dec 21 -7th Jan 2022 Caroline
7th Jan-16th Jan Margie
16th - 30th January Sam
1st - 6th Feb Jess
&th - 14th Feb John O
18th - 19th Feb Sarah-Jane (Megan)
Feb- 22nd-27th Marcus Tietjens
March 4th-7th Mackintosh (Tony and Jess)
11-13th March Nicole (PA)
March 18/19 Jess
12th -21st April Margie/Charlotte
21st - 29th April Kate D
June 10th - 19th CB
June 20th- 25th Daphne (Chris)
14th oct-22nd oct CB
23rdDec-03 Jan 2023 Kate B
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