July has been a busy month for the team at Glen Holme. We have continued our seeding program, marking another drop of lambs, as well as welcoming visitors to look at our sheep from the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of Chile and Argentina. Allen joined the pre-conference tour as part of the Global […]

This month has been terribly cold and wet with shearing and fleece assessments able to be done on the rain changes. Seeding continued whenever possible. Selected mobs of ewes lambed in June as planned. These lambs arrived onto green feed and the ewes did not require any supplementary feeding.

Tagging of the stud lambs has been completed. We used six different sires in an AI program with our maiden ewes. They had great weather for lambing. Most of the time we put ewes to lamb in groups mated to only one sire. This allows us a first and early look at the type and

The majority of our stud lambs arrived during April. Whilst the weather was warm and settled, it was very dry. Ewes lambed unattended and without special feeding for those carrying multiples; good results of survival of twins and triplets has vindicated this choice. It is best to give good nutrition to all pregnant ewes. Karoonda

We had a great time at the South East Field Days at Lucindale, meeting with our South East clients and many other Dohne producers. Thanks for calling in to our display and taking the time to speak with us. We head to the Karoonda Farm Fair for another display of our Dohnes at the beginning

This is the time of the year for Resourcing, Training and Development. We have a certain amount of freedom to take time away from tasks like fence replacement and preparations for shearing to do Training and Development. Lauren went to the Grains Research and Development Corporation sponsored technical update and Damien has done some training

We firmly believe that our sheep will perform under different environmental conditions. In an effort to ascertain that, and to benchmark our genetics against others in various regions in Australia, we have a philosophy of entering our sires in various research and Sire Evaluation trials. We have entered a number of our rams in the

At Glen Holme we have finished our grain harvest, despite breaks due to extreme weather conditions that lead to days of high fire danger. Many producers in our area have been thankful for the income streams from their livestock enterprises and have indicated that they will increase their breeding ewe flock. In all things, balance

We completed the second trip to the South East of South Australia to bring the remainder of the Jelmagh Stud sheep home to be relocated at Glen Holme. This extended our crutching season as we now have another 133 lambs, 48 ewe hoggets and 109 stud ewes. Hay making and carting was both early and

Delivery of rams to the Mallee and South East Districts of South Australia has meant several trips and days away from home. These days are valuable because we see clients in their own setting. We were given the opportunity to purchase a whole Dohne Stud when the owners had sold their land and were retiring