Our lambs from last November’s AI and ET program have arrived. We used a Glen Holme sire 162503 who has done outstandingly well in the AMSEA trial at Balmoral in the 2019 drop, as well as some external sires from NSW and WA studs. These rams will provide good linkage both ways. Fleece testing was […]

Field Day attendance was possible again at Lucindale in the South East of SA. It was good to see existing clients and talk to some new folk about what make Dohnes so profitable.

Joy and Allen attended the major Field Day event for the Merino Lifetime Productivity trial at Harrow in Western Victoria. On Day 1, we were able to inspect all the remaining ewes born from both the 2015 and 2016 drops. Glen Holme 141077 is the only Dohne amongst 134 sires in this huge National project.

Rams were removed from the ewe mobs at the completion of natural mating.

Our grain harvest was the main focus for December. While we were busy with this, our rams were out in our ewe mobs for paddock mating. We trust that you enjoyed a safe and pleasant Christmas.

We utilise the best breeding technology optimally for the size of our stud flock. Every few years we undertake an Embryo Transfer program. We flushed 71 viable embryos from our best seven available ewes and used four different Sires from other flocks, in this year’s program. We also conducted a modest AI program at the

We completed delivery of rams and began the selection process of identifying potential Donor ewes and AI candidates.

Early in the month we weaned lambs. Those from multiple births showed the effects of a shortage of feed but have boomed after being moved to fresh pastures. This month was busy preparing for our On-Property Sale, where we offered stud rams, registered stud ewes and commercial ewe hoggets. 69 rams were sold to $3600

We catalogued our sale rams much earlier than usual this year ahead of photographing and videoing them for an Auctions Plus interface with our Auction on Sept 16th. A late break to the season and a cold wet winter has affected all young sheep in our region. Being purely paddock raised does allow the identification

We used two groups of the best ram lambs to cover mate our ewes in late January and February. The lambs were born June/July and we have DNA sampled all the potential parents and lambs for parentage and Genomics. Currently the Dohne breed need to establish a reference population and validate the genomic results against