$205.50 Blue Steer

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31802, 5 October 1968, Page 10

$205.50 Blue Steer

This three-year-old Aberdee n AngusShorthorn - Hereford cross steer, bred and raised by Mr A. T. M. Thacker, of Okains Bay, brought $205.50 at Addington market last week.

Mr Thacker said afterwards he had never got a price like it before and apart, perhaps, from show cattle it must be one of the highest prices paid for commercial cattle from the peninsula. It was a blue beast with white markings. From the time he was a boy, Mr Thacker said, he had recog-

nised that people seemed to like the blue animal. He was now in the process of breeding them, and he had a number of them on his property, he said. This particular beast, which killed out at 10501 b, was out of an Aberdeen Angus-Short-horn-Hereford cross cow, which Mr Thacker obtained from Mr H. Fitzsimmons, of Greta, and the sire was a Shorthorn-Aberdeen Angus cross from the Mcßrides at Winchester. The purchaser was the Shirley Butchery Company, and Mr L. R. McMeekan, who is proprietor of the business, said this week that it had proved a good cutting bullock with nicely marbled meat. To prove his confidence in his own product, Mr Thacker this week purchased a roast from it from the Shirley Butchery! Between June and this month Mr Thacker has sold about 200 head of cattle through Addington, about equally divided between steers and heifers.