Trambe Four Mile Creek, central tablelands, NSW Tim and Ruth Christopherson 0407 664 228 • tim@trambe.com.au Ram sale: by private treaty An important fine wool flock for meat and wool. This Poll Merino stud has developed
Well Gully Poll Merinos Mitchell, central western Queensland Errol and Candy Brumpton 07 4623 1170 wellgullymerinos@bigpond.com www.wellgully.com.au Ram sale: by private treaty The wool at Well Gully Poll Merino Stud, Mitchell in central western Queensland, is probably as good as it gets. The wool measures 3.4 kilopascals for resistance to compression, making it measurably softer than cashmere (5 to 6 kilopas-
Wyambeh Roma, central western Queensland. Peter Campbell • 07 4626 5454 peter.campbell53@bigpond.com www.wyambeh.com.au Ram sale: by private treaty Fascinating flock with great genetic potential. Another important example (like Well Gully and Karbullah) of breeding plain-bodied Poll Merino rams in a hostile environment for
Wyndhurst Orroroo, northern South Australia Brenton, Robyn and Jonathan Byerlee 0428 810 088 brenton@soilsms.com.au Ram sale: by private treaty
a much needed genetic resource for fine wool breeders to lift the fertility and carcase value of their sheep. The ewe base combines the early body growth, high eye muscle and good fat cover of the Australian Meat Merino and Parkdale bloodlines with the high density and length fine wool sires at Trambe and from Blyth Merinos.
Forbes, central western plains, NSW Neil Williams • 0404 247 357 yarong@bigpond.com
Stud Figure 19: Ewe base type is similar to these AMM sheep.
cals). Traditional Merino wool, which tests from 8 to 12 kilopascals, is nowhere near as soft as the Well Gully SRS Merino wool. The flock averages are 18.2 microns for fibre diameter and 6 to 8 kilograms for fleece weight. In 1996, Well Gully produced the lightest wool cloth ever used in shirt production; 150 grams per lineal metre. The sheep have adapted genetically to keep their bodies hydrated in the hot and humid environment and to be able to convert hard cellulose pastures to meet their body maintenance needs. The sheep are highly resistant to fly strike, and are not mulesed. The wool stays per-
manently white despite the extremes of wet, heat and humidity the sheep are exposed to.
drought, monsoonal rain and flood, worms, and predators that place high natural selection on the animals for survival and fitness. Merino breeders who understand what these intense forms of both natural and artificial selection deliver would also realise that outlier genes for unique traits (eg. barber’s pole worm resistance, exceptional feed conversion efficiency , body heat regulation) are here, and unlikely to be found anywhere else.
Stud Figure 21: Young Wyambeh sale rams.
Stud Figure 20: This Well Gully wool was grown in a very hot, monsoonally wet and humid year (2010) when 1575 millimetres of rain fell.
of SRS Merino genetics for South Australia. This rapidly progressing Poll Merino stud has combined the Australia Meat Merino, of Keri Keri fame, with the impact wool sires from Well Gully and Blyth Merinos. The carcases and wools are amazing. It was the objective to instill muscle and fat genes with best wool genes as quickly as we could. 135% is the natural lambing.
Stud Figure 22: Wyndhurst rams.
A newly established but important source
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rino rams that are paddock run, receive no supplementary feeding and produce high fleece weights of fine diameter wool. Here is an example: 7.5 kg of 18 micron wool for 6 months fleece growth at 2.5 years of age for the ram Green 8.
Ram sale day: 30 September 2016 Neil Williams breeds plain bodied Poll Me-
Neil’s 90 year old father shears the ram Yellow 77.
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