The rains keep coming. Summer forage planted on 18th January is looking good by mid-February. The high selection pressure for fleece characteristics relating to summer rains have shown us how good the vast majority of our ewes are at coping without the use of chemicals to prevent flystrike and fleece rot. Genetic resistance is always […]
Continuing rains slowed harvest down early this month; following rain events in December. We almost finished on January 12th, but were just two hours short when 13mm of rain came again. The next Monday was dry, allowing us to complete the task. With yet another significant rain event forecast for the Thursday, we planted a
The long growing season meant that the majority of our haymaking happened in December. We also sold and delivered our surplus, old proven breeding ewes to clients just before we were able to begin harvesting grain crops. We sold wool in the final sale for 2016 and were delighted with the results. Harvesting of our
The last month of Spring completed a good growing season for the year, with plenty of feed to be carried over through the dry months expected in summer and autumn. We completed delivery of rams to clients, classing and crutching our breeding ewes, classing client’s hogget ewes, shearing our 2016 drop lambs, selecting ewes for
We get a great deal of pleasure when our clients do well with their livestock. One of our long term clients recently offered 1,200 wether lambs on Auctions plus, and was happy with the result. For the second year in a row, another client of ours bought a line of these; they had finished very
Lotting order and details of Sale rams went out early in the month as promised. Strong winds and heavy rain disrupted preparations for sale day. It certainly was a challenging month. Indeed the whole year has been a difficult time for sheep; especially young ones. Most producers in South Australia observed dry conditions in autumn,
We are part way through the process of determining our line-up of sale rams, and offering of commercial ewe hoggets. As soon as we are able we will be making the lot order and ram details available
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
