We have attended Field Days at Lucindale in the South East of South Australia and Karoonda in the Murray Mallee region, talking with current and prospective clients, showing them what we have to offer and also the results we have achieved in the last 12 months with wool sales, surplus sheep sales, and prime lamb […]

This month we shore our mature ewes in full fleece, and have saved the display fleeces for our series of Field Days and Spring show, including the Royal Adelaide Show in September.

Lambs are on their way! We have used a majority of young sires bred at Glen Holme for the March/April lambing. These have been the best progeny from our purchases of fresh sires and our AI and ET programmes in recent times. We have found that our best young sheep came from Glen Holme born

This year is showing the depth and quality of the Glen Holme breeding programme. Estimated Breeding Values (EBV’s) and the Dohne Index can never tell the whole story of our animals, so we invite visits and inspections from people so they can see for themselves the top individuals and even-ness of whole mobs of our

We have seen the success of our 3 Embryo Transfer programs in November of 2011, 2012 and 2013 and we know the quality of the livestock produced. We are now in a position, from both the quantity and quality aspects, to enter into negotiations from both domestic and overseas, for Export Quality frozen embryos to

Delivery of rams to clients in the South East of SA has been a focus for this month. We happily deliver rams purchased at our on-property auction to clients who have travelled significant distances and have made prior arrangements for this. Crutching of all our ewes is now completed with an unrivalled opportunity to see

We are delighted to have received some Champion Awards for our Dohne Fleece at the Royal Adelaide Show. This is the first year that there have been competitive classes for Dohne Merino wool there, and it follows being awarded Champion Dohne Fleece at Crystal Brook in August with a different entry. Crystal Brook is a

Glen Holme was one of eight studs participating in the inaugural South Australian Dohne Sire day at Crystal Brook show on August 9th. We took two sires and six of the best young rams from the 2013 drop. We also entered some ewe fleeces and won the Champion Dohne Merino Ewe fleece. This was the

Allen and Joy attended Lambex in Adelaide from 9th -11th . This was an extremely successful forum with a huge attendance of stakeholders involved with sheep and lamb industries. Joy spent most of the time staffing the Dohne display on behalf of the SA Breeders group and met visitors, distributed promotional material and spoke about

Lambing- Many of our clients are reporting excellent results from their flocks using Dohne rams this season. The early rains in South Australia have proven to be a bonus for producers. We have had reports of overall percentages as high as 118% and 130%, and Dohne cross Merino maidens at 116%. People are very happy