Registered Breeders of Australian White Sheep
Adapting to a changing environment securing food production for the future
Registered Breeders of Australian White Sheep
Adapting to a changing environment securing food production for the future
About Us - AWSBA flock number 0236
Our Stud Flock
We purchased 2 stud rams from Amaroo Stud and 2 SIL stud ewes from Camden Valley Stud. We bought 4 registered stud ewes from Kalnari AW stud and 4 SIL stud ewes from Tattykeel Stud. We now have excellent genetics from Tattykeel, Baringa, Highveld, Amaroo, Camden Valley and Kalnari Australian White Studs. We have recently added a Gamadale Ram to this group.
Our stud flock is growing with careful selection of animals we join. We have some very quiet, fast growing, easy care animals which don't need shearing, have few if any feet problems, no lice, no fly strike, they gain weight quickly all while working on native pastures and silage. Our ewes rarley require assistance when lambing and the flock are all great mothers and band together to protect the young from predators.
We produce AWSBA blue tagged flock rams and sell by arrangement. Our stud sires are avialable when we need to move them on and we keep a semen bank for reinvigorating lines if necessary. We are happy to share our experience and knowledge of this breed and the many benefits we have discovered.
Our Commercial Flock
Our original Australian White flock were second cross wiltipoll out of Tattykeel sires. We purchased 2 Bungarley pure bred rams to improve our animal's breeding values. We run about 140 breeding ewes joined to AWSBA stud and flock rams on 250acres of sedimentary improved natiive pastures. Each year we assess and score our animals on desirable traits from the AWSBA breed standards and keep the highest scored animals for our commercial breeding flock. Ewes are culled on production traits not age and some of our girls raised twins at 9 years of age. They have time to recover before joining or leave the property to become mutton.
Protein from Sunshine
At 3 months old we score the lambs for market quality and breed conformation and grow on the best for adding to our breeding flock or sell as seed stock. The remainder are sold as prime lamb and hogget.
Animal Care and Ethics
We maintain a brucellosis free flock to ensure no loss of fertility and test during the program to minimise spread of the disease should it be found on the property. We maintain membership to MLA's Livestock Protection and Assurance Program accreditation and operate a Farm Biosecurity Management Plan for the land. We maintain a good relationship with our local vetinerary clinic and are able to provide care for minor injuries and illness before it develops into a serious condition. We are selectively breeding for animals which do not require unnecessary painful treatments and where they are essential, the animals are given anethsetic prior to treatment (ie. castration)
Our husbandry techniques are moving away from convention and towards safer, lower stress procedures during mustering and yard work by using muster dogs instead of motor bikes; changing yard design when a problem arises and choosing best days and times according to weather forecasts.
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