Kudu
Male · sire horn pedigree
Sire horn pedigree
The marks
- Gold circle: the sire, or the bull she is bred to, is in the top horn group for this species.
- Silver circle: the next horn group.
- Star: his own horn reaches that group (males).
- Bronze P: pedigreed (named sire, named or measured bred-to bull, or his own measured horn), but below the top two groups or horn not listed.
- Gray horn alone: the notes name no sire, no bred-to bull and no horn we can read.
The table
- Each row is a horn group.
- Typical price: the middle price paid for animals in that group.
- Sales: how many sales it is based on. Fewer sales, less sure.
- The last row holds everything below the groups or with no sire horn listed.
Young animals
- Horns keep growing for years, to about: 4 blackbuck, gazelles, impala · 5 nyala · 6 kudu, eland, buffalo · 7 sheep and goats. Deer antlers grow until about 5½ (red stag 8).
- Sable, roan and oryx grow fast to about 4, then keep adding about 1″ every 18 months for life, so every bull is compared at 6: a younger bull is projected up to 6, an older one (age written with the tape) down to 6.
- If the notes give his age, we work out his full length: measured length ÷ how much he has grown so far.
- It never goes past the longest horn sold for that species, and the steps are shown so you can check them.
- A young animal is priced by the longer of that and his sire's horn.
Price estimate
- We find the animals most like this one that sold at auction: same species and sex, similar horn or sire, age, and bred or not.
- The estimate is the middle of what they brought.
- Recent sales count most: a sale a year old counts half.
- For an auction lot we only use sales made before it.
- Prices vary a lot: 8 in 10 animals sell inside the range shown, and more than half within 25% of the estimate.
- Premium catalog sales often bring more; charity lots include a donation.
- Tap "See the sales used" to check them.
| Horn | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
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60.993–65″
Sires: Twister, Ghost, Katlego
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$21,500 | 6 |
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56–58.454″
Sires: Titan, Scar, Dually
Own horn 55.75–59.5″
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$15,000 | 6 |
Sires named in sold male lot notes, longest horn first. Inches are written on the lot or recorded for that sire on other lots. Counts only; row medians are in the table above.
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Katlego 65″
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Scar 63.625″
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Ghost 62″
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Twister 61″
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Double Wide 61″
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Titan 58″
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Dually 56″
Historical data · guidance only
Build 9e25e17 · PROD