Catalogue now available for 6th Annual Ram Sale

Pepperton Poll Dorset and White Suffolk Stud is gearing up for its On Property Ram Sale simulcast with Elite Livestock Auctions online auction on October 21.

On-Property inspection days have been organised for Monday 12 October and Saturday 17 October from 9.30am-3.30pm. If these dates do not suit just ring 0428 326 190 for an inspection time during the week previous to the sale.

Roger and Dianne Trewick are offering 51 Poll Dorset and 40 White Suffolk rams at their sixth annual auction. “There’s been a lot of breeding put into these sheep, these are the pick of our program,” Mr. Trewick said.

Many of these animals are trait leaders for LEQ, LMY, TCP (Terminal Carcase Production – replacing Carcase Plus), post weaning weight, fat, muscle, and birth weight, to produce “nice good tasting, easy eating lamb the consumers want”.

The rams are produced predominately from AI, with their top ram 180339 “well above national breed averages” with high ranking Lambplan scores – an important part of the breeding program.

“We weigh and tag every lamb and at about 200 days a post-weaning ultrasound scan is done by an accredited Lambplan scanner, for fat depth, muscle depth and weight,” Mrs. Trewick said.

“We’ve had a high percentage of lambs, one of the last ewes to lamb had quads all by herself and they are doing very well.”

Pepperton runs 1200 sheep with 500 breeding ewes, of which 190 of them dropped 308 live lambs within eight days this August. Mr Trewick is a fifth generation farmer since his family founded the Elmore property in 1864.

His father established Wharoonah Dorset Horn Stud in 1943. The Trewicks began the Poll Dorset stud in 1994 and then started breeding their White Suffolks in 2004.

This season is the best it’s been since the 70s. We’ve had timely rain in April and this has set us up for a fantastic season, it’s looking magnificent here,” Mr Trewick said. “We have a very good lifestyle here, it gives us a lot of pleasure to produce good sheep and we hope one day our children or grandchildren will take it on.”