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2008 Sheep Articles
December 16th 2008
AMM Ram Sale was held
Tuesday December 16th
42 rams offered for sale - TOTAL CLEARANCE
SALE AVERAGE $1,276.19Sale breakdown:
AMM : 29 Rams Offered - All Sold at an average price of $1,220.69
Keri Keri X AMM : 13 Rams Offered - All sold at an average price of $1,400.00
The top priced ram for AMM sold for $3,600.00 to an Elders client in Queensland.
This was also the highest priced ram on the day.
The highest price paid for the AMM X Keri-Keri drop was $3,000.00, twice. Each of these rams went to seperate purchasers.
Lot 33 - $3,000.00 to Secombe in Victoria.
Lot 44 - $3,000.00 to Barham in NSW.
The weather was kind on sale day and the conditions were perfect.
Registered buyers came from Queensland, NSW, & Victoria.
Thank you to those who supported the sale, were involved and helped.
We welcome feedback on how the rams perform.
September 1st 2008
Annual Keri-Keri Ram Sale
60 June/July 2007 drop Keri-Keri rams were offered for sale.
The sale rams average : Micron 17.46, SD 2.83, CV% 16.2, CF% 99.9.
58 rams sold at an average of $1,023.28. The two top priced rams were sold for $2,200.00. Each of the rams went to seperate purchasers.
Lot 9 - $2,200.00 to GN & TA Rumph.
Lot 50 - $2,200.00 to HS & ML Muller.
John Rumph - "Stoneleigh" - Ando, NSW & Andrew Dowling, "Keri-Keri" with one of the top priced rams sold on the day.
More photos below.
With such hard, cold & dry conditions continuing here at home, we are sure the rams were glad to have to chance to move to "greener pastures". This was the case - with a wide variety of purchasers. Whilst most of the rams are staying in NSW they are spread far and wide - they also went to a range of places in the other states of Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Again, thank you to those who supported and continue to support our sales. This year putting together a line of rams has been extremely challenging as in previous years the rams haven't needed any supplementary feeding, however with drought conditions now biting very hard we had to feed hay over the last couple of months just so the rams would make it through to the sale. So thank you for your trust in their genetics.
All rams are guaranteed and we welcome feedback on how they perform.
Thank you to all those who helped and were involved with the sale.
Good luck to all for the remainder of the season.
It really hasn't been ideal conditions to prepare sheep for sale, but a little after 9am on the 1st of September the rams were lined up ready for inspection.
Following lunch our agent Joe O'Reilly explained the conditions of sale.
After Joe finished, Andrew also had a few words to say about the sale, the rams, drought conditions and a few people to acknowledge.
Sue, John & David from Wellington.
Andrew Dowling with Craig McKimmie - & one of Craig's rams purchased on the day.
James & his father Pat who made a long trip down from Queensland.
Tim Mulholland.
Philip Selletto,
Prime Feed Materials Australia made the trip to Moulamein from Brighton, Victoria.
John Rumph from Ando, NSW and his father Graham.
Jenny & son Daniel from Victoria.
David Cooper, NSW.
Janelle Pearson was again our Helmsman Sale commentator.
Congratulations to Janelle and Mark on the arrival of their beautiful new baby girl Jessie Grace, who has now been to her first ram sale.
Will she follow in her mother's footsteps??!!
As always we must thank Joe O'Reilly and his great team from the B.R.& C. Stock Agency. At the sale and all year round they are a pleasure to deal with, nothing is too much trouble & they always ensure the whole process is "spot on".
Rams are now available for Private Sale. For details contact Andrew Dowling
To download the Keri-Keri 2008 Ram Sale Catalogue click on the link below
Ram Sale Catalogue 2008(PDF)
If you have any problems downloading the catalogue please let us know & we can email, fax or post you a copy.
29th July 2008 - Side Sampling of Sale Rams
Once the results are received the final sale rams will be catalogued on this website.
Tuesday 29th July - 337 Keri-Keri '07 drop sale rams had wool side samples taken, & sent to Riverina Fleece Testing Services for analysis.
July 2008 - Classing of Sale Rams
On Tuesday 15th July the final classing of the sale rams commenced.
May 2008
Brucellosis & OJD Testing.
Ben Russell from The Swan Hill Veterinary Clinic came to Keri-Keri to do the necessary tests.
His father, Bob, although now retired from the clinic showed us he still has what it takes to check the necessary "stuff"!!!
April 2008 - Shearing
The 2007 drop rams were shorn in preparation for this years ram sale, to be held on the 1st of September.Weighing Results
Fred Lowry's shearing team in full swing.
March 2008 - MLA Scanning
Steve Parker from Advance Livestock Services visited. He weighed the rams, performed EMD & Fat Score tests and also measured scrotal circumferences.
The 2007 drop Rams that will be on offer at this years sale have been weighed at 100 and 200 days of age. They will be weighed again one more time before sale. They were also shorn late March / early April 2008.
100 DAYS OF AGE(6/11/07) : Average of 34.74kg to a high of 52.5 kg.
200 DAYS OF AGE(31/3/087) : Average of 41.47kg to a high of 55kg.(An average growth rate of 19.4% in drought conditions).
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For a full sale summary & photographs of the 2007 Ram Sale - go to the 2007 Archives Section,
also go to the 2007 Archives Section to see the progress of the rams over that year.
For all ram enquiries contact Andrew Dowling.
The dry conditions continue
July 2008
Since the first of January 2008 Keri-Keri has only received 85.5mm rain. 29 mm of this fell in January, which means we haven't had nearly enough rain in our growing period.
Hence the paddocks are still very bare as we now head into the last month of winter. Hopefully late winter and spring rain will give us some feed before long.
Below are photos taken of the paddocks over the duration of this calendar year.
Paddocks in March 2008.
Dust Storm April 2008. The first photo was the veiw out of the front windscreen of a vehicle.
Paddocks in July 2008. The first two photos above are taken on a frosty morning at sunrise. Without any feed growing it simply was ice on dirt!!!!
AMM Information Day
July 2008
On Monday the 7th of July AMM held an Information Day in conjunction with Geoff & Bonnie Locke, at their Weemelah property "Bunardo".
The day was well attended and special thanks go to Geoff & Bonnie for letting us use their property & sheep.
On display on the day were AMM '07 drop ewes (some of which had never been shorn) along with various AMM sires.
Andrew Dowling | Keri-Keri, Moulamein NSW 2733 | T 03 5034 0591 | M 0429 340 581 | F 03 5034 0555 | UHF 23 | E keri@kerimerino.com.au
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