We finished planting all our winter crops except for a late paddock of barley. Visual scores and measurements were recorded for some groups of young sheep. These scores help build up our data and are evident as Australian Sheep Breeding Values. Whilst not compulsory in the Dohne breed, we have chosen to provide additional information …
Good rains continued, and seeding was fitted in around trafficability in paddocks. We are blessed by the good rains in early 2023. We marked our stud and commercial Dohne lambs, recording breech scores. After ten years of experience with electronic ID tags in our stud sheep, and with compulsory eID coming soon, we have chosen …
Early drop lambing finished with most ewes grazing on good growth of grass in paddocks. It is a pleasure to see how well lambs grow with adequate feed supply. Sale rams are looking spectacular and have been running on a bean stubble at times. There will be some rams available this September from our November …
Our family strongly supported the South Australian Sheep Expo held at Wayville Showgrounds in Adelaide. We provided four animals for participants to care for and display as they learned many aspects of sheep breeding, showing and nutrition as well as skills like shearing for the older groups. This event showcases many of the different breeds …
We attended Field Days at both Lucindale in the South East of South Australia and Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Both these regions are significant centres for our clients. We displayed one sire who is having 2022 drop progeny evaluated at 3 AMSEA trial sites, and 2 ewes, both daughters of Glen Holme 162503 who …
Along with others in our district, we finally finished a big harvest. We preg scanned ewes and fat and muscle scanned young sheep, ewes and rams. Joy and Allen attended the Balmoral Sire Evaluation Field Day at “Austral Park” near Hamilton Victoria where both the 2021 and 2022 drops were on display. Allen attended the …
Harvest continued with good yields thanks to the good rains in October and November.
We were able to get some extra visual scoring done thanks to a mild, late season, Rams were taken out of the ewe mobs following a restricted mating period. Harvest began just a few days before Christmas.
Heavy rains provided reserves of moisture to finish crops, but also provided environmental pressures on wool quality. We were able to harness this opportunity and make classing and mating decisions accordingly. Rams went in to ewe mobs as single sires in the stud flock. We spend a great deal of time making these selection decisions, …
This is a busy month every year as the days lengthen and the weather warms up, leading to increased growth rates in both plants and animals. Good rains were welcome. We finished delivering rams following our sale. We offered our ewe hoggets for sale later this year as the weather hasn’t warmed up enough by …
