FROM first cross ewe producers who regularly top the restocker markets through to studs which shine in the show ring the Spring Ram Guide is a showcase of quality bloodstock in Southern NSW.
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Editors note: More stud profiles will be included in the online Spring Ram Guide in coming days. The Rural will publish the 14-page guide in the paper on September 4.
GLENEITH BORDER LEICESTER STUD
“Gleneith Park” is situated 10 kilometres south of Ganmain, in a mixed farming area.
“Gleneith Park” is situated 10 kilometres south of Ganmain, in a mixed farming area.
“Gleneith Park”, is the home of the Gleneith Border Leicester Stud.
The stud is run by Nathan, Wes, Julie and Will Kember.
About 400 Border Leicester ewes are joined annually this allows plenty of scope for breeding objectives to be implemented.
The stud believes strongly in genetic evaluation and has been involved with Lambplan since 1995 and is also a founding member of Superborders in 1997.
Contact Wes and Julie Kember phone (02) 6927 6295 fax (02) 6927 6099, Wes mobile 0428 276295 or Nathan 0428 276 299.
VALLEY VISTA POLL DORSET STUD
IF you are looking for Poll Dorset rams which will produce lambs for the domestic and export markets then look no further than the Valley Vista stud.
The Valley Vista Poll Dorset stud was founded in 1976 and moved from its original home at Burrumbuttock, to Coolac in 1990.
The stud was expanded in 1991 when Valley Vista stud principals Andrew and Donna Scott purchased the entire Meadow Creek stud from the late Ernie Britt.
There was further expansion for the stud in November 2006 when the Scotts purchased 550 ewes and stud sires from the Gererdan stud, which was among the top studs in Australia.
In 2008 Joe, James and Luke Scott founded the Valley Vista Park stud with the purchase of 18 stud ewes at the Kismet dispersal sale.
The Scotts have continued to add to the genetic base over the years with purchases of genetics from the Armdale, Armdale Park, Tattykeel, Hillden and Kurralea studs.
Combined the studs have built the numbers up to approximately 1000 stud ewes. This provides good numbers to select from, allowing the stud to cull heavily.
When selecting rams for the breeding program the Scott’s have placed emphasis on traits such as ease of lambing and high growth rates.
They also place emphasis on producing a well-muscled and structurally correct sheep.
One of the main selection criteria’s is selecting for high growth rate.
“All lambs are weighed at weaning and then two more times at 30 day intervals.
These weights are converted to grams/day,” Mr Scott said.
Lower than 300 to 350 grams/day are culled.
The lambs doing better than 300g to 350g grams/day (depending on the season) are retained in the stud.
The stud also scans all rams, using Stockscan, for muscle area and individual data on each animal. This information is sent to SIL (a New Zealand based recording business) along with the weight information.
This data is processed and comes back with a ranking for ram and ewe lambs.
A ranking is also received on the stud ewes which enables for a culling of any ewes that are not producing quality lambs.
Both studs produce stud and flock rams that will produce quick maturing, well muscled lambs for the domestic market as well as lambs that will go on to the export market.
The Scotts started showing at major shows in 2000 and in that year exhibited the reserve champion ewe at the NSW Cowra Dorset Fair.
This year has been the most successful year in the showing ring after winning champion ram and champion ewe and supreme exhibits at the Gundagai Show as well as Royal Canberra Show.
This was followed with a terrific outing at the recent Bendigo ASWBA show, bringing home a ribbon for reserve champion ram, champion ewe and ultimately taking out supreme exhibit.
This was done with a ewe, which is from the Valley Vista Park stud, that has had an outstanding show career, winning six blue ribbons and taking out two supreme exhibits.
The stud will offer three sires at the Australasian Dorset Championships at Bendigo on Monday, September, 13.
The Valley Vista Park Stud will be offering one ram. Valley Vista will be holding an On-Property Sale on Friday 3 October 2014, inspections from 10.00am and the sale commending at 1.30pm. There will be 150 rams offered.
KURRALEA POLL DORSET AND WHITE SUFFOLK STUDS
Decades of development of a unique Kurralea genetic type has seen clients across all environments experience success in their seedstock and commercial enterprises for many years.
While the setting of a new national Poll Dorset record price in 2012 at $28,000 created headlines, it is the commercial sector focus that the Prentice family’s Poll Dorset and White Suffolk stud’s success is built on.
The patient development of Kurralea’s unique type was built on having a bigger framed sheep with a maturity pattern that enabled all commercial market weights to be targeted by clients.
The difficulty was to build rapid early growth and muscling into this frame type, as there are negative correlations involved.
Genetic outriders needed to be identified and then used astutely to bring in the consistency producers need.
The same principles have been used in both their Poll Dorsets and White Suffolks.
Widespread client endorsement is the best evidence of their success in achieving this. James Osborne, manager of FS Falkiner and Co’s “Barratta” and “Zara” properties, is a big supporter of Kurralea genetics.
The company uses rams from both breeds to mate with approximately 17,000 ewes each year on all its Hay plains properties.
“The reason we shop at Kurralea is the quality of the draft and the large selection choices; there are very few places where you can get the numbers of that quality, plus they are fantastic people to deal with,” Mr Osbourne said.
The company targets the 21-24 kilogram carcase weight range for Woolworths, aiming to turn a majority of lambs off in four months.
In good years 70 per cent will achieve that, with the balance going as store lambs.
Store lamb buyers line up to get these bigger drafts of store lambs with such good high growth genetics behind them.
“The Kurralea rams are uncomplicated with clean points. They are big, long and meaty rams that are also robust, active and healthy enough to be able to walk our vast plain’s country where our paddocks from range from 200 to 1000 hectares in size,“ he said. “Their depth and consistency is exceptional. That is the sign of a very good stud,” Mr Osbourne said.
Greg Moncrief, Moncrief Livestock, Condoblin also regularly buys Kurralea Poll Dorset rams for his clients to join to Merino ewes, mainly producing later maturing heavyweight lambs.
“We buy at Kurralea quite simply because they have the biggest, productive and most mobile rams with meat and muscle that suit our purpose in our environment. We appreciate the quality of the Kurralea rams; their progeny really pack on the weight,” he said.
In a different higher rainfall environment in south western Victoria, Trent Adams, manager for Chatsworth House runs an intensive breeding program, using Kurralea rams over 10,000 specifically developed composite ewes.
“We market over the hooks at 18-22kg carcase weight with lambs finished on stubbles and lucerne. The Kurralea rams have excellent bone, structure, frame size, length and easy durability and certainly do the job for us,” he said.
This commercial success flows through to seedstock producers and creates rams worthy of the high stud demand that has produced those record prices in the past.
However, with large sales, for every outstanding price, there are multiple bargains.
The Kurralea 2014 sale will be on Tuesday September, 30 on-property at Ariah Park, where more than 350 Poll Dorset and White Suffolk rams will be offered.
GAERLOCH WHITE SUFFOLK STUD
Gaerloch White Suffolk Stud was founded in 1989 by Pat, Lynette and Annette Schofield.
The stud is located at “Long Plain”, Kywong-Paintings Bridge Road, Narrandera.
Joining results for natural matings were a bit mixed but resulted in good lambing percentages.
Despite undertaking an AI program during the heatwave in January, great joining and lambing results were achieved.
We are very pleased with all the lambs.
The progeny are of good size, width and are growing well.
Gaerloch sires along with three outside sires were used.
All ewes were heavily classed before joining.
Dry conditions meant the commercial mob was reduced to 100 ewes.
Stud ewes are now down to 200, with 60 young maiden ewes to bring into the stud this year.
A good number of the older ewes will need to be moved aside again.
These ewes, along with surplus maidens, will be sold as commercial ewes for prime lamb production.
Last year lambs from the commercial mob were sold at 14 weeks.
We have had a number of lambs and hoggets killed for our own use this year.
The butcher has been impressed with the meat quality, and so have we with taste and tenderness.
Our clients are using White Suffolks over both Merino and first cross ewes with excellent results.
The lambs are born small with a good growth rate.
Ease of lambing is still one of the main comments we hear from clients.
We can supply rams suitable for trade or export markets.
Clients who are using White suffolk and Merino first cross ewes are producing good lambs.
Clients have reported some good lambing results this year.
The first lambs are almost ready for market so we are awaiting feedback.
The sale rams looked good as lambs and are looking even better now.
We think they are amongst the best we have bred so far.
Rams are available privately now. Rams lambs are generally ready from February.
Delivery back to Cooma and Bega can be easily arranged.
The stud has brucellosis accreditation, OJD MN3V status and participates in Lambplan. We will exhibit at the Henty Machinery Field Days again in the Australian White Suffolk stand near the Eastern Entrance so drop by and say hello.
Contact Pat Schofield on Phone/Fax (02) 6959 8225 or mobile 0427 598225 or Annette on (02) 6453 3355 mobile 0427 645 333.
GLOROY POLL DORSET STUD
The Harris family’s Gloroy Poll Dorset stud will bring down the final curtain on 54 years of breeding at the dispersal sale on October, 2 at Newbridge in Victoria.
Besides being a leading stud in the breed for so long, this is not an ending to a career, but rather a case of going out while on top.
The offering will also reflect that. The entire 2013 drop from this stud will be offered, with that selection coming from over 400 head; 200 rams and 200 ewes.
There will be 30 stud rams on offer and a great draft of flock sires, while the ewes represent all the great breeding quality that 50 years of astute selection and a long history of performance measurement can produce.
The first stage dispersal in February saw good support and new Gloroy record prices for rams of $21,000 and $3300 for ewes.
That ram record was for Gloroy White Caviar an exceptional ram for both genotype and phenotype, ranked by stud principal Colin Harris as the best ram ever produced at Gloroy.
A large proportion of this year’s final stage offering are his progeny.
From a performance perspective over 50 per cent of the drop have a Trade$ index over 112, while over 25 per cent have a Carcase Plus index of over 200.
The selection choices don’t get much better than that. If the fact it is the last opportunity to get some genetics from a stud with a glorious history doesn’t get you interested, the fact that these genetics are at the pointy end of the industry for performance should. It will be your last chance.
DETPA GROVE WHITE SUFFOLK STUD
Detpa Grove’s long and successful history in the White Suffolk breed and prime lamb industry is the foundation for its current launch of new generationsires.
Extensive use of advanced breeding technology has greatly reduced generation turnover and decades of objective measurement have placed Detpa Grove at the elite end of the industry for verifiable performance.
As an example of how genetic management, artificial breeding and feed technology are combined optimally is the ram Detpa Grove 130066, one of the Pipkorn family’s new generation sires.
He is in the top 1 per cent as a trait leader for Carcase Plus index, Weaning weight, Post weaning weight, Yearling and Hogget weights. Detpa Grove 130066 is an industry leader in growth index value.
On Thursday October Detpa Grove White Suffolk stud will offer 200 stud and flock rams and stud ewes at the Jeparit on-property sale.
GLEN IRIS BOND STUD
Glen Iris Bond Stud will be hold an on-proeprty sale on October 8.
Bond sheep are excellent self-replacing maternals that produce fast-maturing lambs, long stapled 20-25 micron wool, and valuable surplus ewes either to join to terminal sires or as CFA to slaughter.
The stud places importance on growth rate, fertility, fleece weight, muscle and micron.
A feature of this years draft is the first progeny of GI11 0014, a son of RP07 0949, a product of our 2010 AI program.
These young rams are excellent quality, being in the top 10 per cent for body weight, EMD, and clean fleece weight.
Before the Helmsman ram auction, 220 2009 drop ewes, September shorn, classed breeders will be sold.
For more information please check our website www.glenirisbondstud.com.au, or call our classer/advisor Michael Elmes on 0429 847 552.
SPRINGWATERS POLL DORSET STUD
The 2014 Annual Springwaters Poll Dorset ram sale will be at “Corcorans Plains”, Boorowa on Friday, October, 3 at 1pm.
A total of140 grass fed flock rams and 10 stud sires of very sill be offered.
Included in the line up will be rams from the winning team at the 2014 NSW Dorset Championships, Cowra.
Springwaters won supreme exhibit for the third time since 2010. The Rowley family again won the Peter Taylor Memorial Trophy for the supreme interbreed group at the 2014 Sydney Royal Easter Show.
The Springwaters Stud has a successful record of winning measured performance classes at shows across NSW and Victoria and many of the rams on offer have been sired by these rams.
Only sires with good eye muscle figures are used in the stud with equal emphasis being put on conformation. In 2014 Springwaters rams sired the winning carcase at the RAS hoof and hook competition at Illabo and at the Harden Show.
The Rowley family are proud of their 35 years of experience in supplying rams, initially to the Monaro region but lately to the South West Slopes and surrounding area.