Wrotham Park Lodge

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Brahman

The working station "Wrotham Park" is a breeding station running approximately 70,000 predominantly Brahman cattle on 596,430 hectares. The station has three major river systems - the Lynd, Mitchell and Walsh Rivers on Cape York Peninsula - which run through the entire property. Production of the property is breeding steers for the growing-out areas. Station operations consist of two rounds of mustering using horses, motorbikes and helicopters.

Wrotham Park Lodge Quick Facts

Size - 596,430 hectares or 5,964km2
On average run around 70,000 head of cattle
Rainfall- 40 inches or 1032mm
23 people work on the station
Wrotham Park first settled in 1873 by AC Grant
AACo owned Wrotham Park from 1963 to 2006
Great Southern Plantations purchased Wrotham Park in 2006
Wrotham Park is a breeding station with Brahman seed stock
Steers are sent to another station to be grown out
Heifers that are bred on the station are placed back into the breeding stock
Cull Heifers are sent to another station to be to be fattened
Aged cows that are not fat and pregnancy tested empty heifers are sent down to a feedlot
Fat Cows are sent to Innisfail (meat workers)
All cattle are mustered twice a year in 1st and 2nd rounds
In each round every paddock on the property containing cattle is mustered and taken to the yards
During 1st round all cows and bulls are injected with a botulinum vaccine and bulls are injected with a vibriosis vaccine
Calves are separated and branded. Once branded the calves are placed back with their mothers
Weaners are taken off their mothers and trucked back to the station where they are processed and fed
Male weaners are then trucked down to another station whilst the females are completely processed and fed lick and tailed out until they are walked to their next paddock where they stay until old and heavy enough to be placed with a bull
All cattle are dipped before they leave the station

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