| Why buy Waidale Southdowns: |
- I am an honest, straight up and direct breeder, who will always give you honest answers. No bullshit or marketing gimmicks at Waidale.
|
- 30 years of breeding that enabled us to turn our southdowns from wasty, small waddlers to the big, well muscled, high yielding, easy and prolific lambing sheep we have today.
|
- 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.
|
- Extensive performance recording including weaning weights, 200 day weights, eye muscle scanning and fertility (lambs born, survival, lambs weaned) which assist you in selecting the right rams that will increase your income.
|
- SIL Breeding Values that assist both you and I to produce Southdown 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::
|
Key Performance Indicators| YEAR | Ram and Ewe WEANING WEIGHT AVERAGE (16 WEEKS OLD) | Ram and Ewe AVERAGE WEIGHT AT 26 WEEKS OLD | Average Daily Growth rate (ram lambs) from 16 to 26 weeks | RAM EYE MUSCLE SCANNING AVERAGE | Weaning Percentage | | 2003 | 38.45kg | 48.52kg | 116.8 grams | n/a | 147%NB | | 2004 | 41.28kg | 54.31kg | 156.55 grams | 18.67 at 8 May 2004 | | |
NB=We were hit with Salmonella Brandenberg last year, with around 10% of our flock aborting |
|
- We are committed to breeding Southdowns that:
|
