All Lined Up

You can see how many pens are in that one row and there are a lot more like it. This is a very large saleyard! Most of the white cows are Brahmins.

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Beef Anyone?

July 25th 2014
Today is the day for the Cattle Sales so we set off for Gracemere, about 15 km away, where the largest saleyards in the Southern Hemisphere are located. We parked and walked past lots of empty pens to the area where the action was taking place at the far end of the lot. Cattle were mostly in breed groups of 10 to 12 head per pen, which they sold as one lot, with the occasional pen having only 4 or ... read more

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