Lambing is going well we now have 18 sets of twins and 10 single lambs on the ground. The foxes have been about with all the twin births its always more of a problem, our alpaca Bailey is great, we have never lost a lamb when he’ s in the paddock, so far so good and [...]
We have recently had our stud flock South African graded by Wicus Cronjie, and again we are pleased with our breeding results in terms of studded stock for such a small stud with over 50% of presented stock stud grading . Autumn lambing is about to commence and with most of the ewes expected to twin, the herd population [...]
The 3rd Annual Namoi Dorper & white Dorper sale will be held at Gunnedah NSW on the first Saturday in February 2011. The sale has stock suited to all dorper breeders from the upgrade crosses to upgrade purebred, fullblood and South African Stud Graded stock. In 2010, enteries were recieved from 12 Dorper & white Dorper Stud and Commercial Stud [...]
We have just weaned the first of our Rover lambs. This Ewe lamb(above) DOB 07/11/09 Weaned at 35.6kgs.,our top weight this time. He has given us, very feminine heads in his ewe lambs and great covering.
…more Rover weaners
Some of our 2009 drop Rams ( all under 10 months old) Sires used Amarula Douggie & Winrae Bruce
The 2nd Namoi Dorper sale was held on the 6th of Febuary 2010 again a success. Gunnedah had 50mls of rain overnight prior to the sale and through out the morning ,so it was a little damp and the sheep were carrying a little more mud than we usually see around here…… Great to see some [...]
The Namoi Dorper Breeders Group 2nd Annual Dorper & White Dorper sale will be held on Saturday 6th February2010 at the Gunnedah NSW saleyard , inspections from 9am Sale commences at 11am.We will be entering 3 ewes and 4 rams on the day.
Fullblood rams 070027, 080102,080105,080120
Woodensprings 070172
DOB 29/10/2008
rego no: D34983
Sire Amarula Douggie (Type 4)
Dam Woodensprings 060009( Type 4)
has been [...]
Douggie Lambs 29thNovember2009
Old Douggie has again given a great little mob of lambs, with average weaning weights 32kg. Douggie was used as a covering ram with some of our fullblood ewes this year. Of the 13 Douggie lambs weaned 11 ewes and 2 rams. Conditions have been very dry, so this time we have weaned earlier than [...]
We currently have a selection of commercial rams for sale prices Start from $300 +gst . Check out the for sale page.
The first of Woodensprings Rover lambs have started arriving early November 09, Rover was joined to our young ewes most just 12 months old at lambing. The lambs have been averaging birth weights of around 4kg.
Twin Douggie ewes 2 months old