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Twelve different families, mothering almost 1000 stud ewes annually, to produce true medium wool sheep. |
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Collinsville is run on a commercial basis comprising of 22,000 merino ewes producing 10,000 merino wether lambs |
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Collinsville’s cropping program consists of 3,500 hectares. This consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, peas and lupins. |
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Irrigation program is run at North Booborowie and is mainly used to background wether lambs coming into the feedlot |
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Expanding operations in agricultural and station areas, and establishing lamb feedlotting for the domestic market |
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Collinsville Magic - ram half share sells for $28,000. At $28,000, this ram is worth big bucks - and that's only for a half share.
West Australian breeder Philip Gooding, East Mundalla Merino stud, Lake Grace, last week outlaid $28,000 for a half share in the Collinsville ram in one of the most expensive ram transactions in South Australia in recent years. Mr Gooding, a client of the Mount Bryan based stud for more than 20 years, made the long trip over to last week's South Australian Merino Field Days to view the Olympic 86 - sired ram, which at 19 months weighed 130 kilograms and had figures of 19.6 micron, 3.1 standard deviation, 15.4 co-efficient of variation and 99.8 per cent comfort factor. The ram, a grandson of Olympic 001 bought in partnership for $40,000 by Mr Gooding and the Minnipa-based White River stud more than four years ago, is rated by Collinsville as one of the most outstanding rams it has bred in recent times. Collinsville stud manager Tim Dalla said the ram had a tremendous sirey outlook on a massive frame. "He is a modern type Merino, plain up the neck, with soft medium wool of good density and excellent evenness," Mr Dalla said. "We didn't really want to part with a ram of such high class, that's why we decided to retain a half share." Mr Gooding said the ram - one of the most expensive he'd every bought - would be used to cross over the stud's "top family', Western Purple. "Olympic 001 has been one of the greatest influences on our stud in terms of wool quality and body weight," he said. "The ram showed both sides of his pedigree, from the male and female side, and that made him very predictable. "He had outstanding wool for his type, width over the shoulders, I couldn't fault him and I will use him to continue to enhance our stud." Landmark South Australian stud stock manager Malcolm Scroop, who brokered the sale, said the ram had a tremendous future in the industry. "When we first saw the ram just his structure and the way he balanced himself was outstanding," Mr Scroop said. "The half share will also include semen marketing and he will be displayed at Bendigo later in the year." The rams' first-drop of artificially inseminated lambs at Collinsville are expected in six weeks. |
