Texas Powerplay owned by Kelly Angus at Yea found alive

The missing $108k bull from near Yea was found after a weeks-long search and rampant speculation about its disappearance.

A $108,000 Angus bull missing for more than two weeks has been found alive and well.

Texas Powerplay P163 garnered national attention this week after he disappeared from Kelly’s Angus stud near Yea.

Kelly Angus manager Patrick Joyce said Powerplay was found at lunchtime today, just 3km from home.

Mr Joyce said Powerplay had a slight injury to a leg and was hungry but has passed a vet chat.

He said the bull had turned up on a local property, sitting under a tree in a paddock with about 80 heifers.

Missing bull Texas Powerplay P613 has been found alive and well 3km from his Yea farm. Picture: Supplied

But how Powerplay got there remains a mystery, as he would have needed to get through five fences, walk through a paddock of yearling bulls, and swim the Yea River.

“It is just unexplainable because he is a quiet bull, not a fence jumper,” Mr Joyce said.

“We really have no idea how he ended up there – we are just amazed and so thankful that we have him back.”

Kelly Angus farm manager Patrick Joyce

Mr Joyce said he had been ringing property owners in the district to talk about the bull’s disappearance and had been chatting to one farmer today who told him he was about to move his heifers out of a paddock as they were running out of feed.

“He then rang me back later and said, ‘I think I have your bull’ and when he sent me a photo, we knew it was Powerplay – I couldn’t believe the phone call,” Mr Joyce said.

“We flew over that property in a chopper when we did our initial search – it’s hard to explain at all and we are bewildered but just so very relieved to have Powerplay back.

“He has an injury to his leg but the vet assures us that he is going to be OK but he is very hungry.”

Powerplay was trucked back to the Kelly Angus headquarters around lunchtime and has been put back into the paddock and fed silage.

Kelly Angus is a family-run stud, owned by Vicki Standish.

Vicki Standish is the owner of Kelly Angus.

“We will keep him here with his two mates for the next couple of months and then he will go up to the semen centre to be collected,” Mr Joyce said.

“He was certainly happy to get back home.”

The Weekly Times has contacted Victoria Police for comment.