Collinsville Stud Top Merino Sire Masterbuilt 070401

Twelve different families, mothering almost 1000 stud ewes annually, to produce true medium wool sheep.

Collinsville is run on a commercial basis comprising of 22,000 merino ewes producing 10,000 merino wether lambs

Collinsville’s cropping program consists of 3,500 hectares. This consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, peas and lupins.

Irrigation

Irrigation program is run at North Booborowie and is mainly used to background wether lambs coming into the feedlot

Feedlot

Expanding operations in agricultural and station areas, and establishing lamb feedlotting for the domestic market

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.

As a result the stud has made the decision to still give their loyal clients an opportunity to purchase a top Merino stud sire. Masterbuilt 070401 was originally going to be retained at Collinsville as a leading stud and semen sire but now will go under the hammer on-property on the 15th September. Studmaster Tim Dalla says Masterbuilt 070401 is an outstanding stud sire, and the first son to be offered by the acclaimed ‘Masterbuilt 444’.

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.

For Further Information, please contact: Tim Dalla: (08) 8893 4184 or 0488 773 329 or Elders Representatives Tom Penna 0428 854 708 or Damien Webb 0418 837 648