REGINA — Eleven-year-old Austynn Brehaut said she wasn’t nervous showing cattle in the Canadian Western Agribition purebred ring for the first time.
“It was really fun,” she said after the Canadian National Speckle Park show.
Brehaut, from Wawota, Sask., was showing for X-Treme Speckle Park of Redvers, Sask., owned by Tammy and Donald Buisse.
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The farm took home a banner for junior yearling heifer champion, X-Treme’s Lady’s Bird 21 L, in its second appearance at the show.
Tammy Buisse said they began using Speckle Park bulls about 10 years ago on their commercial cattle and added cows about four years ago when they bought an entire purebred herd from Don Bell at Dubuc, Sask.
“They’re a little bit smaller,” she said of the decision.
“The meat is phenomenal and the cuts are smaller. Then, of course, there’s their colouring.”
Last year they decided to enter Agribition to promote their farm, meet other breeders and look at genetics.
They later met Brehaut, and her 15-year-old sister, Alexia, who also shows, at a 4-H event where their granddaughter was participating.
“I was helping the little girl show,” said Austynn.
“I’ve been showing since I was three or four.”
Agribition attendees may have seen her before helping her grandparents at Mebbs Ranch show in the commercial events.
Buisse said she is impressed with the Brehaut girls.
“Between the two of them they have so much confidence and ability. They are unbelievable,” she said.
Alexia shows the larger animals, but Austynn isn’t far behind. She was allowed to walk a big bull from the wash rack back to the stall ,and Buisse said she managed the 1,800 pounds just fine.
Youth was a theme for X-Treme at Agribition.
Many of their entries were the youngest in the class as they move the herd up from calving in April and May to as early as February.
Their heifer calf sale entry was the second youngest in the catalogue.
The sale began with the first ever donation heifer for the breed’s junior association. Marilyn Carmark 14M, donated by Carmark Cattle Co. from Lashburn, Sask., brought in $41,150 through the Dutch auction event and was won by PJS Speckle Park from Prince Albert, Sask.
Junior program adviser Makenzie Olson thanked Carmark and breeders around the world who supported the event.
The high-selling lot was KFC June 49M, a heifer calf consigned by KFC Farms of Abbotsford, B.C., which sold for $16,000 to Adelia Farms of Climax, Sask.
A package of four embryos sold to Australia, but about half the sales of live animals and genetics headed to Eastern Canada, including Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and Prince Edward Island.
In the show ring, Colgan’s Kiss and Tell 27K with calf-at-side Colgan’s Magnum 127M was named grand champion female. Colgan’s Cattle Co. is from Saskatoon.
The champion senior yearling heifer, KFC Cashmere 37L, from KFC, was reserve.
The two breeders jointly exhibited the grand champion bull, Colgan’s Lawman 08L.
Greenwood Kobra 3K from Greenwood Speckle Park at Lloydminster, Alta., and Ivery Downs Speckle Park of Australia was the reserve.
