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 400 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.

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

Rams are 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
* Natural birth twin where possible
* Testicular measurement
* Doing ability
* Easy shedding ability
* Adequate fat cover
* Inherent fertility in genes

Click Here for information on our sires.

The lead of our rams being sold at our on-property sale on the 3rd Friday in October, by a Helmsman sale format, interfaced on AuctionsPlus.

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