Lambs with weight

Pembroke sale on the horizon

Welcome to the new year of ram sales. We have had a wonderful year both selling and buying of livestock. We have seen amazing prices for both sheep and cattle and a wonderful spring with a reasonably cool summer that set us up for a great autumn break.

This year we have lambed down 1200 Merino ewes to our home bred Border Leicester rams, closer to 2000 first cross ewes using our own Poll Dorset and White Suffolk rams plus the 540 Stud ewes. Conception rates were as we would expect and we are seeing it in the paddock, lots of twins and triples hitting the ground with a great survival rate. Lambs have plenty of weight in them. We are able to see exactly what our genetics can do running a large commercial enterprise alongside the studs.

Our two terminal studs, Poll Dorset and White Suffolk, have a focus towards increasing the meat yield and turning lambs off quicker, to get more out of each lamb sold and give your breeding ewes an extended rest period before the next mating. The maternal Border Leicester have been consistently high 160% conception rate over the last 5 years. We have now coupled our focus on the balance between fat to muscle of the sheep, plus getting their fleeces tested for a micron score. This will help with the fleece quality of your future 1st Cross ewes. Lambplan gives an easy to interpret system of figures which can give a good outline of the quality of sheep under the skin. We continue to sell our 18 month old 1st cross ewes in the Naracoorte Blue Ribbon 1st Cross Ewe sale every November, with strong results and very loyal clients. The 1st cross wethers and prime lambs usually end up going over the hooks.

This year we are planning to have an onsite auction on the 6th of October, but also not taking any risk by offering the sale once again on Auctions Plus. All rams will be filmed and put up online with connection to Lambplan to view figures and pedigrees. We will be offering 60 Poll Dorsets, 50 White Suffolks and 60 Border Leicesters. As always the rams will be delivered free of cost to clients.

We are brucellosis accredited and fully vaccinated for OJD. We follow a strict on farm biosecurity plan, use of the JBS accreditation scheme provides another layer to our animal welfare and farm biosecurity.

If there are any questions regarding the studs or our ethos on breeding. Please contact either Ashley on 0437 364 603 or Kathy on 0418 800 789.

We are only too willing to help in any way possible. Or you can contact Shaun Minge PPHS 0428 838 899 or Dale Dridan AWN Livestock and Property 0428 171 428.