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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 to offer outstanding sire Collinsville Merino and Poll Merino stud, Mt Bryan, has had a big couple of weeks selling two rams privately – a $30,000 Poll Merino to Sherlock Poll Merino stud, and a $17,000 Poll Merino ram to an Argentinean buyer. The second ram however, Regent 070421, was due to be sold as Lot 1 at Collinsville’s upcoming ram sale. |
With a magnificent sirey muzzle and outlook, he is a massive long & deep bodied ram with soft long stapled crimpy medium wool testing 20.8 micron, 3.3 standard deviation, 15.9 coefficient of variation and a comfort factor of 99.5 per cent. His current body weight is 122 kilograms on the 15th September 2008. Collinsville will also retain a 50pc semen market rights on the ram. 