GLENELLERSLIE Hereford Stud has bred horned cattle since 1948 and polled cattle since their introduction to the Adelong property's line-up in 1998.
The name Glenellerslie came about after Gordon Smith drew block eight in the Ellerslie Estate War Service Settlement at Adelong, and his wife June wanted a name with “Glen” in it to reflect their Scottish heritage.
Having run a commercial herd on the New South Wales property for decades, it was in 1974 that Gordon spent most of the inheritance from his parents on stud cows, starting a hereford stud in memory of them.
Since 1974, Gordon and June - and now Ross, Mandy, Blake and Carly Smith - have endeavoured to breed cattle with size and muscle while also retaining doing ability.
"Whilst we believe Breedplan figures are a great tool in breeding, we have resisted the temptation to breed cattle purely for their advantageous data," said stud principal Ross.
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"We also present an article with the obvious attributes of size, muscle and doing ability.
"We have so improved the milking ability of our herd that we now only artificially inseminate our heifers, not cows, and some of our best bulls are being bred from these heifers.
"We believe colour is an important attribute of herefords and we don’t retain light-coloured cattle, nor do we tolerate poor behaviour in our herd."
February 11 is Glenellerslie's 32nd bull sale - an incredible acheivement - with the stud offering up 21 horned herefords and 15 polled bulls.
The full sale line-up will also be on display a week prior, with Glenellerslie taking part in Stock and Land Beef Week on Wednesday February 5.
The polled team are sired by new sires Tycollah Southland and Yarawa South Radium, plus more sons of Kaludah Cooper.
"Our dehorned team are led by first sons of Glenellerslie Tambo, Glenellerslie Unorthodox and Warwick Court Quinns, plus more outstanding sons of Yarram Unique, Kaludah Stormboy, Amos Vale Galloway and the last son of WRL Macca," said Ross.
"A blast from the past is well worth a look in our lot two bull, sired by Kaludah Mr Percival whose last sons graced our catalogue in the year 2000."
All the bulls carry the Glenellerslie guarantee, they are semen tested, inoculated with Vibrovax, Multimin, 7-in-1, drenched against fluke and worms and this year will also be treated with Cydectin to guard against external and internal parasites.
