TALOUMBI BRANGUS

Hardy & Amanda Woodard (07) 4996 5154

The Taloumbi herd was founded in the mid eighties, by buying cows bred by Harold Cook at Bowen, later collecting an assortment of Brahman and Brangus cows and heifers in the Mackenzie River area, including Duckworth and Bingegang. I bought my first Brangus bull, Tarcoola 100 in 1988 for $3,000 off my father, previously running my cows with his herd. Tarcoola 100 was half Couti-Outi and half our original breed from Lloyd Pownall, where Dad bought his first Brangus bull about 1967. These clean coated, early maturing, low maintenance cattle still live on in our herd today.

Two Angus sires were introduced about 1993, Nairn Park Larry L1 and Bunya Creek Magnum. These two bulls produced sires to breed back over our own cows. This proved a valuable move to maintain the fertility and maternal values of our original cattle. These traits were hard to obtain from many of the Brangus available at the time, which almost caused us to change to another breed. It was about this time that quite a few other Brangus breeders began to sieve the Angus and Brahman breeds for new genetics. This resulted in a resurrection of the breed when out-crossed to some of our original cows.

While colour was still a problem with some cows, we went on to invest in Tarcoola 903 and later Bimbora Axel, whose calves are due in 2008. We should have a virtually colour free herd from now on with the added performance from new genetics.

Our most recent purchases in 2008 are two Angus bulls from Banquet Angus stud in Victoria. These bulls will be used selectively over Brangus and commercial Brahman cows as we are relocating to a larger scale operation 70km north-west of Eidsvold.

At the first Central Brangus Classic Sale in 2007 we offered 4 bulls to average $7000. In 2008 we will offer approximately 10 bulls with the majority being by 903.

We have carefully considered other breeds of cattle from time to time and made many comparisons with the objective of breeding the complete animal for the tropics. We are now dedicated to Brangus more than ever.