Mount Monmot offers a proven genetic solution

Urgent action required on drench resistance

One of the biggest challenges facing the Australian sheep industry in history is how the drench resistance issue in our sheep industry has been described by leading experts.

The fact that many sheep flocks throughout the country are now facing the reality of hitting a wall of drench resistance – reaching a point where no drench will work to combat worms in their sheep due to the over use of anthelmintics is a major concern.

Mount Monmot Perendales a leading stud based in Skipton, Victoria believe they have the proven answer to this – with ‘nil-drench’ genetics having been built into their Perendale bloodlines over the past decade.

The Mount Monmot stud has sourced their stud bloodlines from the award-winning Newhaven Perendale stud in New Zealand since 2011 with a proven resilience to worm burdens.

Newhaven have not had to drench their lambs or ewes for over 30 years now, due to their work on creating a highly innovative, proven nil-drench genetic gains program.

“We offer a very unique opportunity for Australian sheep farmers to source low-drench genetics infused with 50 years of New Zealand genetic gains” Malcolm Fletcher of Skipton’s Mount Monmot stud said.

“The fact that we now only drench our lambs once in their lifetime is pretty exciting and we are proud to be able to offer these genetics in our Perendale sale rams to our clients.”

Malcolm said along with the Perendale’s ability to perform in extremes in feed conditions, impeccable structure and their ability to push through worm burdens without affecting production or needing multiple drenches is a major breakthrough in sheep genetics.

Trudy Boyer of the Mount Monmot Stud said little did they know just how crucial having the ability to run sheep that weren’t reliant on worm drenches would be when they started to source their genetics from New Zealand.

“This is a critical crossroads for our sheep industry – there is no way out of drench resistance unless you have worm resilience genes,” she said.

Mount Monmot Perendales have been blown away by the demand for their self-replacing Perendale rams and urge you to register your interest for rams for this coming selling season at [email protected] or calling or texting Trudy on 0419 565 450. Follow us on Facebook and go to www.mountmonmot.com to read more.

STRONG GENETICS: With 2000 stud Perendale ewes and a nil-drench regime, the New Zealand primary flock is allowing Australia’s sheep breeders to source these genetics via Skipton’s Mount Monmot Perendale Stud to lead the way in genetic gains