SCRUBBEE BRANGUS

Wayne & Marcia Maguire (07) 4987 3015

Wayne & Marcia Maguire and family own and run Scrubbee Brangus north of Blackwater on the Mackenzie River. Wayne and family have been breeding Brangus for 25 years at “Scrubbee”. With the basis of the herd coming from Bingegang, which was owned by Wayne’s father since 1976.

The family runs 1000 commercial breeders on their two properties “Scrubbee” and “Ashgrove”. They keep the top 20-30 male calves a year as bulls. Selling the majority in the paddock with the best ones being put through the Central Brangus Classic. The remainder are fattened to bullocks and sold as Jap Ox. The females are put to the bulls as weaners after being culled on type and temperament. Any empty females after that are culled and fattened. Wayne has also bought in bulls from major studs including Tarcoola, Amaroo, Belview and Coolabah.