“Collie Blue owned by the Duddy family since 1952, is a capacity property located in the highly regarded Springsure area noted for its quality cattle and high rainfall. The property is currently run as a successful low cost breeding and fattening enterprise and is set to reap the benefits of the approximately 19,000 acres freshly pulled since 2003″

Location: 76 klms South West of Springsure and 151 klms south of Emerald

Services: Rural Power, twice weekly mail, Satellite TV and 25 klms to school bus.

Area and Tenure: 16,937 Ha (41,851 acres) Pastoral Holding

Country: Collie Blue has approximately 25,000 acres improved and well grassed open and semi open creek flats. The improved country consists of a mix of former Bonewood, Brigalow, Box, Wilga and Ironbark. Of this improved country about 19,000 acres is freshly pulled since 2003.
The balance of the property is mostly undulating Ironbark and Box running onto Lancewood ridges.
Soils range from black soil flats, dark scrub loams, red loams with sandy areas.
The property is very well covered with wide variety of grasses including Buffel, Blue Grass, Flinders, Forest Mitchell and Black Spear plus other native grasses.
Property is traversed by Reedy and Yellowberry Creeks with 30 klms of double frontage.

Water: Property is well watered by 24 open dams with excavations ranging in size from 5,000 to 30,000 yards, 7 equipped bores and 1 unequipped bore plus 1 spring.

Fencing: Fenced into 6 main grazing paddocks plus 6 large holding paddocks. Fencing consists of about 25 Klms of new 3 and 4 barb with both timber and steel posts. Older fencing is well maintained and consists of principally 2 barb and 1 plain with timber posts.

Structures: 5 Bedroom air conditioned colonial homestead built in 1995.
3 bedroom quarters
Open 11 x 11m concreted shed.
New 5 rail steel cattle yards with capacity to work 1400 head. Includes vet crush, calf marking and loading facilities.

Cattle: up to 4000 cattle available if required. Breakup of cattle on request.