This year has been busy for the McUtchen Family of the Jambili South Devon stud.
This year they took a team of eight South Devons to the Ekka, featuring six of the 23 bulls that will be on offer at the JAK Production sale on 1 September at the Bell Showgrounds.
These six bulls are from both the Kildare and Jambili studs and featured Kildares Black genetics.
The sale will feature broad ribbon winners from both the Brisbane and Toowoomba Royal Shows.
Lot 1 Jambili Uru a 946kg is a gentle giant who was awarded Senior Champion South Devon Bull and Lot 2 Jambili Uelese Res.
Junior Champion at the Brisbane Royal, he is a powerful December calf, Lot 5 Kildare U Beauty was the 2025 Toowoomba Royal Grand Champion South Devon Bull.
The selling agents will be Aussie Land & Livestock, with the auction online through Stocklive, with all bulls delivered free of charge to purchasers.
The McUtchens will also offer heifers and steers with show ring potential, as well as their very popular “Calf at Foot“.
They offer their first drop of calves to purchasers, these calves are kept with their mother until December where they are weaned, cut, vaccinated and started on feed prior to the purchaser collecting them for their 2026 show season.
The Jambili and Kildare cattle a renowned for their temperament. This year’s Ekka was proof of this with three of the four McUtchen children presenting animals of various sizes in the show ring.
Most notably and, possibly the most popular pairing, was Erin (aged nine) and Grand Champion Female Jambili Urma a 19-month-old heifer who is due to calve in December.
Not to be outdone, her 13-year-old brother made an exciting return to the show ring by showing 10-month-old calf Jambili Vunivalu to the Junior and Grand Champion Ribbons and their sister, 12-year-old Alannah showing that a good relationship with your animal is essential when she led 952kg Kildare Utopia 2 in the Senior Bull Class, a bull that is 24 times her weight.
