History of the Murray Greys

The first Grey calf was bred by accident from an Angus sire over a light roan Shorthorn cow at Thologolong on the Murray River. This cow along with a couple of other roan shorthorn cows went on to produce many grey calves to different Angus sires.

Ena Sutherland, wife of Peter Sutherland who owned Thologolong raised these Mulberries’ (as they were known) until she sold the small herd to her daughter Helen. Under Helen’s care the herd grew with fantastic results and noted cattlemen in the district began to like these wonderful cattle because of their incredible qualities.

In the 1930s Murray Grey bulls were sired for the first time. The first sire was Thologolong Australia who went on to sire many champions.

The herd began to flourish. Although not popular to begin with these cattle displayed wonderful traits such as docility, easy calving and milking and were essentially bred for Australian conditions and did well in them. The cattle converted feed well and did well on grass as well as in feedlots with high yielding carcasses. The Murray Greys won many carcass and stud competitions including Royal Agricultural Show competitions. They were exported overseas as both live cattle and genetics exports.

Today pure blood Murray Grey cattle continue to display these original traits and continue to win stud and carcass competitions.