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| WHY BUY WAIDALE ROMNEYS: | | - I am an honest, straight up and direct breeder, who will always give you honest answers. No bullshit or marketing gimmicks used at Waidale.
| - 40 years of successfully breeding romney rams to meet the market's needs. The performance of the Waidale flock has always been steadily improving. We place considerable emphasis on the big three, lambing percentage to weaning (not simply scanning), growth rates from birth to weaning and weaning to 200 days, meat yield with eye muscle scanning collected every year.
| - Waidale rams have pedigrees that are as accurate as I can get, this accuracy is a result of tagging lambs at birth and not leaving them until tailing. This accuracy translates into SIL breeding values that have merit and some meaning for you, the client. In otherwords when you select rams from us, if you choose to select on EBV's, then those EBVS will be as accurate as we can get them.
| - Extensive performance recording including actual: weaning weights, 200 day weights, hogget fleece weights, eye muscle scanning and fertility (lambs born, survival, lambs weaned) which of course assist you in selecting the rams with the genetics you require to increase your income.
| - SIL Breeding Values that assist both you and I to produce Romney rams with the genetics that ultimately leads to greater financial returns for you!
| - Waidale Rams have the genetics to provide you with greater financial returns: The Key Performance Indicators (KPI'S) used at Waidale (in tandem with SIL) being:: weaning weight, 200 day weight (this being more of a 150 day weight to prioritise early growth), eye muscle scanning, lambing performance (in terms of numbers of lambs, deaths and mothering ability), fleece weight
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- Romneys with good hind quarters, loins and spring of rib, so that the rams we bred reflect what the market wants. I believe 5-05 to the right demonstrates these strengths.
|  | - Romneys that not only have high growth rates from birth to weaning to 200 day, but throughout are ready to kill, in otherwords lambs that finish. Photo is of ewe lambs at 1 July 2004.
|  | - Romney ewes that wean at least their body weight or better.
| | - Romneys that not only attain good weaning weights, 200 day weights, but continue to grow, so that you will always have good size capital stock, and not get caught in the ever decreasing spiral of smaller and smaller sheep. This photo is typical of the type of 2th we keep.
|  | - Romneys that have the constitution to handle all conditions.
|  | - Romneys that clip heavy quality wool. The emphasis being on weight, quality and length of staple for second shearing. This photo is of Waidale 164-02's fleece.
|  | - Romneys that wean around 200%, we still have a way to go, but we are getting there. We dont keep any ewe that has two singles in row, in otherwords every animal on the farm has a minimum fertility potential of 150%
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