Stud Objectives

Stud Objectives

• Provide clients with sheep breeding options to assist them achieve a profitable bottom line.
• Breed a robust meat sheep suited to pastoral areas with comparable growth rates, whilst retaining the most profitable wool cut and quality: a true dual-purpose sheep.
• Retain a light topknot, plain body with good length of staple and deep side, this helps maintain wool weight.
• Produce medium white wool, with low CV and exceptional comfort factor.
• Take advantage of the buoyant lamb market.
• To provide wool producers with various alternatives to value-add to their business by introducing Dohne rams to their merino flock and joining them to their older or CFA ewes for prime lamb production. The advantages of using Dohne sires will be that the ewe portion of the Dohne cross will be of a sufficiently high merino standard to remain within the flock. The wether and classed out ewe lambs could be marketed in the following ways:
  • In regions that have suitable nutrition, the lambs could be grown out and are capable of achieving export weight within 12 months, with the added bonus of the finer lambs wool being shorn prior to sale.
  • In regions that do not have adequate nutritional requirements or are experiencing a tough season, the lambs could be sold as stores at weaning. Getting the lambs off early and lightening the load could increase the ewe carrying capacity.