These traits counter the challenges experienced by our sheep in this environment, while maintaining production.
- A weighty fleece of superfine, stylish, and resilient wool
- Improved condition and shape with increased fat and muscle
- Enhanced worm resistance
- Plain breeches with low dag
- Increasing resistance to internal parasites
- Increasing resistance to footrot
- Better mothering and more resilient lambs
Our breeding program focuses on producing sheep that thrive in our high rainfall zone conditions. They must have:
for Productivity & Resilience
BREEDING
There is excitement in achieving some of these traits. Many of these characteristics make it easier to keep our sheep fat and healthy, and make for better lamb and surplus sheep sales.
We are particularly excited about increasing resistance to footrot. Footrot is one of the worst ailments afflicting Merino sheep in especially in high rainfall areas and it has only recently been considered to have a breeding solution. To have bred animals exhibiting this valuable trait is one of our best breeding outcomes to date.
