The History of Blue Dog Brahmans

Blue Dog Brahmans was established in January 2004 by Colin Ferguson and daughter Bonnie Keough. The stud was named after a blue cattle dog pup given to Colin, which he called Dog. Following the sale of the family commercial property, Blackdown Station, in late 2003 the desire to stay in touch with the cattle industry prompted Colin to purchase a small number of high quality Brahman heifers at Stud sales in late 2003 and early 2004. This included FBC D Miss Charmer Manso, and Lancefield Miss Meryl 2663. Also the pick of the flush purchased at Gympie in June 2004 saw the arrival of Blue Dog Bundy in January 2005 by LL Sugar Ely Manso 727. Hence Blue Dog Brahmans was born. After his initial input, Colin decided to pay more attention to his racing interests and handed the running of the stud over to Bonnie.

In March 2004 a small area of undeveloped land on the outskirts of Charters Towers was purchased to establish the stud base. Over the following months Bonnie with the assistance of her husband Shane began The Hideout's development. 12 months down the track found us able to run our own embryo programs with extensive fencing and yard building having being completed. The following months have seen further acquisition of breeding stock with semen being purchased from overseas and within Australia.

Late 2006 seen our progression into reds purchasing a heifer at the TL sale in Rockhampton, in calf to the South African bull NCC Serengeti.
In August 2006 the founder of Blue Dog Brahmans, Colin Ferguson passed away in Mareeba after a short illness. Following this tragic loss Shane gave up his career in the Mining industry to return full time to the Stud. Their son Dean became a partner to the business.