A TOTAL clearance of 60 Dohne rams to $3100 kept Ulooloo Stud's Greg and Liz Hall and their son Rob smiling at their on-property sale at Hallett on Wednesday last week.
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The stud's second on-property sale drew a good crowd of buyers with an excellent average of $1020 testament to the Halls' decision to invest in the South African breed.
The top-price ram went to return buyers Tim and Peter Hall, Carunna Vale, Jamestown, who purchased five.
No relation to the Ulooloo Studmasters, the Halls said they had travelled Australia-wide in the past 10 years in their search for high-quality Dohne genetics.
Mr Hall said their top-price ram was well sprung, with good wool at 20.1M, 16.8 coefficient of variation and 99.1 comfort factor. By a Jarramongup blood sire, the 85-kilogram ram had a 129.9 index, and ASBV's of 2kg for weaning weight, 4.7kg for yearling weight, 0.4 millimetres for eye muscle depth and 6 per cent yearling clean fleece weight.
* Full report in Stock Journal, October 3 issue, 2013.
