Our Herd
HKR Mount Leslie have a self placement herd of Poll Hereford cattle that are ethically and sustainably produced and 100% grass fed, hormone free with no antibiotics.
Our Sire
HKR Mount Leslie have sourced their bulls from the Meander Valley, Tasmania for the past thirty years. The Mclauchlan Family, Valma Stud and The Archer Family, Chester Stud.
Currently using genetics from the outstanding Chester Stud. Due to the high return per hectare under commercial conditions. Qualities of high fertility and structural soundness that are highly prized.
We believe that running high growth cattle with excellent eye muscle area and above average yield, will generate a premium in a competitive market.
Our current sire Chester Patrick ( Paddy) is a very well balanced figured bull with 200 & 400 dw,ss,imf and his Index Values are in the top 10. His EMA is in the top 15% of the Hereford Breed. Eye pigment - Left 100/Right 100 - Fertility - Scrotum 38.
Our Story
Mount Leslie was purchased by JL Hudspeth in 1930 from the Grubb family Circa 1830. Mount Leslie, then was approximately 3000 acres of Eucalyptus, Casuarina and Acacia bushland with native grasses. Over the next fifty years the property was developed into a profitable wool producing and beef enterprise introducing clover and rye grass with the combination of aerial fertilisation and land clearing with pasture renovation to approximately sixty percent of the property.
in the late 1970’s a greater portion of Mount Leslie was sold to the ENT Group and later developed to what is now known as the Country Club Casino and Blackstone Heights.
As the fourth generation of the Hudspeth King Roberts family, we maintain the continuation of tradition, of pastural and grazing practices transforming to a more intensive commercial Hereford Beef enterprise.
Our family carry on the vision of sustainable farm practice into the future, caring for our herd and environment equally.
Our People
JL Hudspeth 1930 - 1989
HEL Roberts 1984 - 2019
AHK Roberts 1990 - present
LEF King Roberts 2009 - present
IMR King Roberts 2009 - present
