Sheep Week offers breeders a great opportunity to inspect and purchase Gromark Genetics rams this Wednesday, June 19 at Pleasant View, Young from 9am to 5pm.
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Of the 31 rams for sale 26 are still lambs aged 11 months and five rams have two teeth.
These rams have a full pedigree and current Lambplan ASBV's for key traits such as birth weight, growth, fat, eye muscle, fertility and meat-eating quality.
"We encourage breeders to have this information prior to their visit so they can make a short list of rams with the best genetics to move their breeding program forward," says Kate Sevier.
Gromark Genetics stud offers structurally sound rams to suit four different enterprise choices. They have been infused with Poll Dorset genetics since 2002 for balance of growth, fat and eye muscle with a focus on low birth weights for easy lambing our of Merino ewes and crimped white wool.
Clients running Merino ewes choose them as both terminal sires and maternal sires for productivity depending on their genetics. The wool on the cross is around 23-24 micron.
The female progeny is kept or sold as a preferred maternal prime lamb dam to the expensive traditional alternatives or composites.
The mother of the prime lamb is responsible for 50 per cent of the genetics of the terminal lamb so she must be productive.
Some Gromark Genetics rams are also chosen as terminal sires over first-cross ewes due to their excellent carcase attributes and others successfully use the rams for their own self replacing maternal prime lamb enterprise.
Sheep breeders can economise by choosing Gromark Genetics rams to use as terminals and maternals from the one stud instead of introducing two other breeds.
The rams are the last ones on offer from Gromark Genetics stud after 35 years of breeding as Kate and Paul Sevier will not breed rams after this but change to commercial sheep and prime lamb production. The rams are for private sale for this one day.
Contact Kate on 0409156464 for more details.