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Maister's Swamp Merino Stud, skin technology is carefully balanced
against other sheep characteristics including wool and frame. We achieve
this with the assistance of Ron Rayner from Glanna Merino Stud, who has been
our stud sheep classer for the past ten years. David is now taking the major
role of the sheep classing decision making at the stud.
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Maister's Swamp has a balanced, open approach to the fine or bold crimp debate, with both forms of crimp being developed in different families but on a productive skin type. An emphasis on a larger frame sheep size, with a deeper spring of rib, with wool characteristics of greater brightness, a deeper precise crimp, forming a distinct lock formation. With good length and great softness and nourishment.
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Progeny from the last ten years are showing these new and
improved traits. With all lambs being carefully
pedigreed to both the sire and dam, which assists us to form the distinct wool
and sheep family types. Which allows sheep and wool producers to select genetics
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PURE IN TYPE We believe at Maister`s Swamp that predictable and preponent stud breeding will give commercial wool growers the sustained productivity increases that they seek. This without the downsides of unconventional breeding techniques such as figure breeding or continual mixed breeding hybrid vigor techniques. As our studs breeding becomes highly prepotent due to its closed or semi closed flock situation our studs prepotency is increasing. This is why we strongly advocate using genetics from Merryville or pure Merryville daughter studs, thus keeping introductions pure in type.
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FIBRE EFFICIENCY Just like other industries example dairy cattle feed efficiency will become more important an the future. How many merino ewes produce 10% wool of their body weight? Very few. A 50kg merino producing 5kg of wool as well as producing a healthy lamb I would feel is a vey efficient ewe. These days I see stud merino sheep getting bigger and bigger but not necessary getting more fibre effecient. To make my point more relevant one of our shedded 2yr old ewes JD 69 who is fine wool bred cut 10.8kg of wool @ 16.6 microns. Her body weight 2 weeks prior to shearing was 70kg, making her fibre efficiency figure 15.4%. Adding to this outstanding efficiency figure her low micron and high quality fibre she is truly amazing animal.
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INDUSTRY TRENDS At Maister`s Swamp the current industry trends for an early maturing larger carcass sized animal will eventually lead commercial growers down an unsustainable economic path. Just like other industry fads such as lowering flock microns, and we all know now how this trend has hurt commercial growers bottom lines. This is why at Maister`s Swamp we are striving to deliver genetics that will give growers not only prepotent and predictable breeding results, but just as importantly to make our merinos as economically productive as possible. By producing as much quality wool as possible on an economically sized sound sheep.
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| Reg No. 4497 Horn | Reg No. 1284 Poll | OJD Status MN 3 | ABN 80 636 115 481 | |