North Carolina is a hotbed of Holstein activity this weekend as Kingsmill Farm II hosted their Kingsmill Genetic Extravaganza Sale today and the Holiday ET Extravaganza is on tap for tomorrow. Sale attendees looking for sunny, warmer weather in the south were greeted by sun today but felt dropping temperatures as a major winter storm is forecasted for tomorrow.

Arriving at Kingsmill Farm II for the first of the weekend’s two sales, it is always nice to see such a well-kept facilty in the beautiful tree-filled landscape of Durham, NC. Many may wonder why Kingsmill decided to have such a large sale at this time. Partners Mr. David Falk & Mr. Mitch Hockett always had it in their plans to have a sale of this size sometime last fall, but made the decision to wait until milk prices began to rebound a bit to market the herd’s genetics.

An extensive flush program has provided the farm with numerous female offspring from several well-known cow families in the breed and that’s what was featured here today. Great cattle with great pedigrees – no extra “fluff”. At the end of the day, 194 full lots averaged $3,212. Below are prices and pictures from some of the high sellers today, along with other lot information and faces that were in the crowd. For more detailed pedigree information on the lots that sold, click here to access the online catalog.

*FYI* Remaining on the farm after the sale will be 60 milk cows, 30 dry/flush cows and 200 heifers. At their second farm location, 175 cows are milking and there are 900 heifers.

HIGH SELLER: Lot 44A – 1st Choice Shottle x Ashlyn, $15,500
Buyer: Gene Iager, MD

2ND HIGH SELLER: Lot 41A – 1st Choice Lightning x Ashlyn, $15,000
Buyer: Gene Iager, MD
*2nd Choice Lightning sold for $5,800 to Brian Hill, VT

Lot 218 – Savage-Leigh Golden Liz-ET, $11,000
EX-90 @ 3-09 Goldwyn daughter of Savage-Leigh Leduc Liza-ET (EX-90 GMD), next dam is Savage-Leigh Bellwood Linda (2E-92 GMD DOM)

Lot 33 – Kingsmill Ashlyns Ashton-ET, $10,800
3/17/08 Stormatic daughter of Ashlyn
Buyer: Cowtown Holsteins, VT

Lot 42 – 1st Choice Durham x Ashlyn, $10,000
*2nd Choice Durham sold for $8,200 and 3rd Choice sold for $6,500

Lot 199 – BVK Durham Duchess-ET (EX-90), $10,000
Fresh 7/8/09, Duchess sold open and ready to breed. She is a Durham daughter of Ms Kingstead Chief Adeen-ET (2E-94 DOM).

Lot 45 – EK-Oseeana Ashlyns Allure (EX-91), $9,500
Durham daughter of Ashlyn, Allure sold open and ready to flush.

Lot 43A – 1st Choice Mac x Ashlyn, $9,200
Buyer: Cowtown Holsteins, VT

Lot 210 – KM&EW Cutie Rae-Red-ET, $5,000
Fresh 12/25/09, Sept Storm daughter of Sweetie Rae (2E-92)

Lot 2 – Sco-Lo Shottle Jemini-ET (VG-88 @ 3-09), $3,000
Gr’dam is Sco-Lo Integrity Juliet (EX-92)

Lot 3 – Ocean-View Durham Jean-ET *TV (EX-90), $3,300

Lot 18 – Lylehaven Durham Luna-ET (VG-86), $3,000
Due 8/3/10 to Alexander, full blood sister to Lila Z

Lot 51 – Kingsmill Advent Ashlynn-ET *RC (VG-86 @ 2-11), $5,300
Due 6/6/10 to Reality-Red

Lot 74 – Kingsmill Roy Arial-ET (EX-91), $3,800
Due 7/17/10 to Jerland Denison-ET

Lot 98 – Del-Hollow Stormin Trudy-ET (EX-93), $3,300
Open and ready to flush

Lot 213 – MS Goldwyn Bria-ET (VG-86 @ 2-03), $6,000

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