CHANGE OF SALE DATE:

Koonwarra's 33rd Annual on property Ram Sale for 2010 will be held on:

Wednesday 29th September at 1pm at Little Range, Boorowa

60 June/July 2009 drop rams to be auctioned

32nd Annual Koonwarra On-Property Ram Sale was held on Friday 9th October 2009 at Little Range.

We thank all those who attended and your support was most appreciated with 51 of the 60 rams offered being sold for an average of $956.

Thank you to Kevin and Helene Grabham from Bathurst who bought the top priced ram Lot 12 for $1400 and to the volume buyer at the sale, Angus and Gayle Oberg, from Bowning, who took home 13 rams for a top of $1250 (twice) and an average of $875.

32nd Annual Koonwarra Merino Stud Annual
on-property Ram Sale
Friday 9th October 2009, 1pm
60 may /june 2008 drop
Preview Day - 14th September 10am to 3pm.

Koonwarra Sires

Uniform family 2.647 Merryville BG Gemfamily 7.78 Uniform 7.49 KWA Syndicate 8.7 family 1.9 Gemfamily 3.129 Gemfamily 8.7 family Blacktag N family BU Uniform 3.21

AI Sire used

Nerstane 43 Yarrawonga J712 BG177 Roseville Park 45

This will be Koonwarra Merino Stud’s fourth sale at the new location, Little Range, 16kms from Boorowa (NSW) on the Cunningar Road towards Harden.

These rams were shorn on 8th April 2009, and their fleece tests will be taken about 6 weeks before the sale. Each ram will have individual fleece figures for micron, S.D., C.V., Spinning Fineness, Bodyweight, and Greasy Fleece Weight percentage. These rams were Gudair vaccinated as lambs out of approved vaccinated ewes. These rams will be selected
by Stuart Hodgson, the Stud Classer, and Charlie and Jono Merriman, the Stud Managers. Koonwarra clients can come to the new home of Koonwarra and know that there will be a continuity of the Koonwarra type and direction that Stuart Hodgson has been developing over the years.

A Preview Day of these rams will be held on Monday 14th September in conjunction with Merrignee and Tara Park Merino Studs, with Koonwarra and Merrignee, at Little Range, open from 10am to 3pm and Tara Park open from 12 noon to 5pm at Tara Park.

Individual details on each of the 60 rams will be available, on the website, before the sale; however, not until after the fleece tests are taken (about 6 weeks before the sale) and the rams catalogued. Individual body weights will be available on the day of the sale.

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2009 Koonwarra weaner sale rams

FLOCK RAM SALES

Commence mid October 2009, by appointment at a time that suits clients. This is done individually so each client has plenty of time to inspect and discuss their individual requirements. These rams are from the same drop as those to be offered at 32nd Annual On Property Ram Sale. There will be two grades $700 and $500 (excluding GST ).

2010 Koonwarra/Merrignee Annual Stud Ewe Sale that is usually held on the last Thursday in February will not be held as we have insufficient numbers available due to the drought and our need to build our own flock numbers. Also due to drought grain feeding programs over many years there are not enough sound mouth CFA ewes to warrant holding an on property sale, which is why we decided to cancel the 2009 Stud ewe sale also. Instead, for Private Sale, will be a small number of stud ewes available in February after Stuart, Charlie and Jono have classed up all the stud ewes.

BODY WEIGHTS

We will weigh the 60 rams in the week or so before the sale, these individual weights will be available on our website from early October. we have decided to do this to show that the rams are ready for an early joining and to let clients understand the body weights that Koonwarra rams can achieve at 16 months of age. We believe this is another selection trait that clients may benefit from.

HEALTH STATUS

Koonwarra Merino Stud is Accredited Brucellosis Free No. CW98/23 and OJD Approved Vaccinates. Koonwarra Merino Stud has been vaccinating with Gudair since 2002, so the 2009 lambs that have just been vaccinated, are from ewes that were themselves vaccinated as lambs. Therefore this Stud is a second generation Approved Vaccinated Flock, with four (4) credit points, which allows Koonwarra progeny to go to medium and low prevalence areas. Koonwarra is Vendor’s Declaration Ovine Footrot Free.

DUBBO SALE RAM

Tag No. Blue 138. He is by BG 177 and we will be taking him to Dubbo to show and offer for sale.

He is a 2007 drop and a big strong ram from the BG family with great bone, width between his legs and a good spring of rib. A March shorn ram who is pushing out a long staple length of true medium wool type and very well covered. His fleece figures are not available as the side samples will be taken for Dubbo on 12th August. His current body weight is 89.5kgs.

The Koonwarra ewe we will be showing is a 2008 drop ewe sired by Nerstane 4636, the wool type of this ewe is very high quality and a type we are slowly developing at Koonwarra.

2009 Dubbo show and sale ram

SOUTH WEST SLOPES MERINO
FIELD DAY at YOUNG

Koonwarra will also be participating in the South West Slopes Merino Field Day at the Young Racecourse on Thursday 3rd September.

Koonwarra will have on display some young sires and a selection of the rams to be offered at the 32nd Annual On Property Ram Sale on Friday 9th October. Also on show will be some sheep Koonwarra intends to take to the show and sale at the Great Southern Supreme Merino (GSS M) at the Canberra Showground from 23rd–25th January 2010.