Kingaroy’s Jen-Daview Livestock celebrated a generational run at this year’s Ekka, taking out a grand champion sash and 10 other first-place finishes throughout the stud beef, led steer and led heifer events.
The Jen-Daview team took their finest Limousin cows, calves and bulls to the 2025 Royal Queensland Show with their selection paying off: Krystal S13 took out the 36-60 month-old cow, senior and grand champion cow awards for her breed, capturing the attention of the attending judges.
Jen-Daview’s Brent Evans explained Krystal came out on top due to her capacity, productivity and the size of the calf at her side, Value Packed.
Krystal’s wins at the Ekka followed her receipt of the reserve senior champion female award at Beef 2024 in Rockhampton, as well as her recent first-place performance at the Springsure Limousin feature show in May.
The Evans’s will now retire Krystal from the show circuit and allow her to produce further award-winning offspring as one of Jen-Daview’s lead cows, with the South Burnett stud already setting the champion up for an embryo transfer down the line.
Jen-Daview also saw success in several other categories. The Evans family won the 12-16 month Limousin heifer section with Temptress V18, the 12-16 month bull and junior champion bull events with Victor V21, and the Limousin breeder’s group class in the stud beef category.
In the led steers events, Jen-Daview claimed gold with a 591-650kg steer, won champion heavyweight led steer with Black Magic, and also produced the grand champion led steer carcass in Carby, exhibited by the Coulda Shoulda Woulda syndicate.
“It’s probably the highlight of our career,“ Mr Evans said of his stud’s success at the 2025 Ekka.
“We’ve had a successful year, but there was no way we ever anticipated doing what we did at the Ekka. We’re still tickled pink about it.“
He explained that Jen-Daview’s commitment to the Limousin breed had paid dividends over the decades.
“We’ve been breeding Limousins for close to 20 years now,“ Mr Evans said.
“The bull that Krystal’s by [King George] was one of our first that we registered. Similarly, the bull that Victor and Tempress are by, Mr Pinnacle, is 10 years old now – we bought him as an embryo out of Canada.
“It’s certainly been a long time making them as such, but we just backed our program and had belief in it. We’re proud of what we’ve done,“ he said.
While the senior Evans’s are celebrating their win, the ’next generation’ of Jen-Daview is already keen to carry on the stud’s legacy.
Cousins Poppi and Archie Evans, 18-months and three-months-old respectively, won twice during their very first Ekka attendance.
The pair of pint-sized cattle exhibitors walked their heifer Black Beauty to victory in the 461-530kg class and went on to claim the champion junior led heifer award.
“It’s bred into them,“ Mr Evans said of the childrens’ success.
“Poppi is old enough to love animals and love cattle. She certainly loves being outdoors and around animals.
“Little Archie will no doubt grow up into that as well.“
