At Stockman, we believe in sound breeding, which is why we only use proven Sires across our top stud ewes. Through years of conducting our own on-property sire trials and continually assessing our Sires against the best-performing rams in Australia, we are confident that the Sires used in the top end of our stud are reliable and proven.

 

Only rams in the top 2% of each year’s drop are selected to enter our Sire Trial.

 

We don’t solely assess these Sires for their measured traits; we are also looking for Sires that can stamp their mark on their progeny. Our focus is on sires that produce large percentages of top-classed progeny while also exhibiting exceptional fleece and body weight figures.

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Progeny from the trial have the following results recorded:

 

• visual score for 13 different traits,

• wool tests and fleece weights,

• body weights,

• visual class

 

The Sires' identities are withheld throughout this testing to eliminate any chance of bias. The results are then collated, and the Sires’ breeding results are determined.

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Fertility is a key profit driver.  At Stockman, we have been individually mating rams to mobs of 60 to 80 ewes for only 3 weeks.  Over the past 5 years, the conception rates for these 3-week matings have regularly achieved over 90%.  In addition, 60% to 70% of these lambs are scanned as bearing twins.  Eye Muscle Depth and Fat Depth are being measured to increase fertility rate and lamb survival.  You can be assured that you can achieve exceptional results when you combine Stockman genetics with appropriate nutrition.

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Stockman Stud has been conducting on-farm sire trials since 2002.  We have only used poll merino sires in the stud since 2010 and ceased mulesing in 2018.