Elite Poll Herefords
Sales Information
Pre Sale Registration
If you wish to pre-register as an attendee bidder at our sale you can do so here.
If you wish to bid online, please use the AuctionsPlus interface. You are not required to register as a bidder with us.
Please pick up your Buyers Number at the Registration desk on arrival at the sale.
Cut-off for registration is noon Wednesday, 4th September 2024.
Pre Sale Registration
Buyers Information
•All bulls reared naturally on their dams on predominantly native pasture. All Group Breedplan figures generated under these conditions.
•No bulls have been hoof trimmed.
•All Bulls have passed independent evaluation for structural soundness. testicular tone.testicular circumference and semen quality.
•All registered animals.denoted (REG) in catalogue,will be transferred to the purchaser free of charge.
Health - All bulls have been given initial and booster vaccination with UltraVac 7-in-1, Vibriosis and Pestigard vaccines. Routine annual vaccinations necessary to maintain immunity. All bulls have been notch or hair tested for Peste virus and found PI free. That is,no persistently infected animals were found.
2 year Unconditional Guarantee - Should your selection prove unsatisfactory to you within this period from purchase,we shall ensure you recover your purchase price (eg we pay you the difference between salvage value and purchase price) or we replace your bull, if a satisfactory replacement is available. This cannot, of course, cover death, disease, injury or misadventure for which a selection of insurance covers are available.
FREE DELIVERY to 400km cannot be given immediate, but will be organised within 14 days after sale.
Bulls will be held at "Eulalia" after sale free of charge but at purchaser's risk.
Helmsman Selling System
Quiet and Buyer Friendly
•On arrival, intending buyers register and receive a buyer number.
•When the sale commences, all the bulls are on offer simultaneously.
•To bid on any bull, fill in the bid card with your Buyer No and Bull Lot No. and price you wish to offer and hand it in to the bid table or to a "runner".
•Bidding may be opened at the reserve on any bull. The reserve appears on the bid board.
•Bids are recorded with the buyer number on a large board near the yards and bulls. Any number of bulls can be bid on at once and reference to the board will indicate if your bid still stands,or has been overbid.
•There is no pressure to commit to another bid. If your "first choice" bull goes over your limit, you can still bid on any other bull in the sale.
•A bid once submitted and recorded.cannot be retracted and the person submitting such a bid will be responsible for it until it is overbid.
•The sale will remain open for a minimum of 20 minutes. After this, at the discretion of the presenter, the 2 minute "no bid" time will commence. That is, a bid registered in the last 2 minutes will result in a 2 minute extension of time. Any further bids trigger the same process until a full 2 minutes "no bid" period concludes the sale.
Conditions of Sale
•Subject to the reserve price, the highest bidder shall be the purchaser, and in the event of any dispute arising it shall be settled by the presenter unless one of the claimants will advance, in which case the lot, or lots, shall be put up again.
•Payment shall be made and cleared prior to delivery. Therefore payment on sale day preferable.
•Registered agents who introduce new clients, attend the sale to assist their clients with bull selection and settle on behalf of their clients within 14 days of the sale, will be entitled to an agent rebate of 5% of the bid price. A 2% rebate will be paid to those agents who introduce potential purchasers, but do not attend the sale with the purchasers. In the event of delivery being made to, or possession being obtained by, the purchaser or his representative prior to payment of the purchase money, then, until payment in full of the purchase money or any cheques given on account of same, the purchaser is to hold the stock as trustee for the vendor.
•If required by the vendor, the purchaser shall deposit the whole amount, or any part of the bid price, at anytime during the sale.
•All stock shall be at the risk of the purchaser and proforma delivery shall be deemed to have been given when the sale presenter closes the sale by the fall of the hammer.
•As soon as practicable after the fall of the hammer, the purchaser shall sign the agreement for sale.
•Lots will be offered simultaneously.
•The purchaser authorises the sale presenter to sign on his or her behalf the Contract of Sale.
•If the purchaser shall neglect, or fail to comply with any of the above conditions, any stock purchased by him or her may be immediately resold by public auction or private contract, with or without notice, at the risk of the former purchaser, who will be held responsible for all loss and expenses arising out of such a resale, and shall not participate in any profit accuring therefrom.
•No person shall be entitled to bid unless, prior to the commencement of the sale, he or she has made arrangements, satisfactory to the vendor for the payment for any stock and/or property sold to him or her. The vendor may refuse to accept any bid, which, in her opinion, is not in the best interest of the vendor.
•The HEREFORD GROUP BREEDPLAN Estimated Breeding Values contained in this catalogue were compiled by the Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) from data supplied by the breeders. Neither the Herefords Australia nor ABRI oversee or audit the collection of this data.
Managing your new bull
•Sale bulls from "Eulalia" have been handled quietly and with care all their lives. They are run in relatively large groups, ie not alone.
•When they arrive at their new home,they have to adjust to new yards, different noises, loss of their mates, different people, different handling methods, trucking, unloading, new paddocks, different feed and water! That is,it is a stressful time for them.
•To minimise the stress and speed their settling to their new environment, it is helpful to unload them at the yards into a group of quiet house cows, herd cows or steers so they are again in a "herd" and not alone. Feed with hay and let them settle.
•This is even more important if they arrive at night. Provide hay and water if they arrive at night and leave handling until the next morning. Definitely don't jump them off the truck into an open, strange paddock. Settling may be immediate or take some time.
•At his first joining, check your new bull regularly for at least the first 2 weeks, so any injury is detected early. Early detection and removal from the group may mean minimising any loss of use.
•Try to avoid joining a young bull in a group with an older bull or bulls, as he will be dominated and so do little work for you.
