BREEDING OBJECTIVES
Our objective is to provide our clients with stock that are structurally sound, have a good constitution,
are clean shedding
and highly fertile. Currently the stud is running at 200 full blood ewes. Every mature ewe on the property runs under a “lamb or a carcase” regime, she either produces a lamb or becomes a carcase.
Proven ewes are being used in embryo transfer work each year with approximately 90 ewes being flushed. This enables us to build our numbers and strengthen desirable traits. Lambplan is being introduced alongside ultrasound scanning as objective tools in the selection process. This enables us to breed even lines of proven genetics backed up by our excellent after sales service.
(Some 2008 sale rams)
Ewes are selected for:
- Return pregnancies under all conditions
- Superior fertility with an emphasis on twinning
- Weaning weight per ewe
- Milking ability
- Structural soundness
- Medium frame
- Good muscle pattern
- Doing ability
- Easy shedding ability
- Adequate fat cover
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(Back Creek 4102 Ewe with lamb by Edson 379)
Rams selected for:
- Masculinity, ability to consistently pass on his genetic traits
- High growth rates
- Structural soundness
- Muscle pattern
Wide deep twist
Spring of rib
Width of loin
- Body length
- Testicular measurement
- Doing ability
- Easy shedding ability
- Adequate fat cover
- Inherent fertility in genes
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Rams are sold privately at "Glencoe" from the beginning of October, with 120 being available for sale in 2008.
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