Chaw

Another really foggy morning, this time in Wagga Wagga. Seems to be a recurring theme for us. But they are coming into winter so it's not real surprising.

Went to the Wagga Livestock Saleyard this morning and really enjoyed it. They sell about 500 cattle an hour on Monday's and normally run through 3000 cattle per sale. What's even more astounding is that they sell 30000 sheep every Thursday. That's unreal and more sheep than I ever want to see in my lifetime. Plus Australian auctioneering is not even close to what we are used to. Overall one of the neatest spots we have stopped at.

Right across the street was our next visit to the Teys Australia abbatoir. Pretty handy to have it right across from the salebarn, but they actually source 95% of their cattle direct from the farm or their company owned feedlots. Teys Brothers has been long established in Australia and recently merged with Cargill to form Teys Australia. It combined their operations and gave them both a larger geographical reach.

An hour up the road was the Jindalee Feedlot, owned by Teys Australia. They have a capacity of 17000 and currently have 15000 on feed. Unlike our feedyards, they do not have access to corn. Instead wheat and sorghum are steam flaked for their rations, and surprisingly they get very respectable feed efficiencies compared to what we would expect with those products in the states.

I don't have a bunch of pictures from today. No pics inside the abbatoir are allowed obviously, and they were very secretive about their feedyard too.

Fun fact: the water inside the toilet bowl really does spin the opposite way



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