LIMOUSIN bulls sold to a top of $5500 in the breed's first multi-vendor AuctionsPlus sale last week.
A feature of the sale, organised by members of Limousin Muscle Alliance, was that lots were restricted to cattle carrying the specific muscling gene F94L.
This gene is found in pure French Limousins and in those Limousins that have tested positive to carrying two copies of the heavy muscling gene.
Last week's sale attracted a catalogue of 100 sale lots including cows, heifers, semen and embryo packages and 36 bulls.
Organiser and vendor Tim Keys, of Keystone Limousin Genetics at Springhurst, said the clearance of 22 bulls was in line with expectations.
"It was a good first-up sale," said Mr Keys, who topped the females sales with $3750 for an 18-month heifer sired by pure French bull Rocky.
He said the AuctionsPlus sale had been deliberately scheduled to allow unsold lots to be catalogued for the forthcoming multi-vendor sales at Colac and Lardner.
The top-priced bull at $5500 was a four-year-old offered by Kel Sorenson's Tanholm stud at Ebor in NSW.
Glen Alvie breeder Colin Willmott, principal of the Tarraleaha Limousin stud, was more than pleased with the sale of his two bulls at $5000 and $3000.
Mr Willmott said from what he could glean from the sale, demand was strongest for cattle sired or artificially inseminated, by pure French bulls.
