Coming events for Koonwarra

1. FIELD  DAY on  Friday 22th January 2010

Koonwarra Stud will be open from 10.00am to 5.00pm, as part of the Great Southern Supreme Merino Field Day.  On display will be the rams that will be for sale at Great Southern Supreme Merino Show and Sale (GSSM) at Canberra Showground, some Koonwarra sires and Stud ewes with their progeny. 

2009 Koonwarra weaner sale rams

2009 Dubbo show and sale ram

2. G.S.S.M. RAM  SALE in an air conditioned Fitzroy Pavilion at the Canberra Showground (EPIC) at 11am on Monday 25th January 2010.

Koonwarra will be offering the following 2 rams through Landmark.

No. 1 Ram.   This sire is by the proven KWA sire Uniform 2.647 who has consistently produced quality sires. This sale ram is also top quality and has been used in the stud as a 2 tooth sire. He is a large framed ram for a fine/medium type with good bone, well sprung ribs and very good length of body. Also has a strong head with a soft clean muzzle, quality wool type with defined crimp and very good staple lock which will help keep the dust penetration out of the fleece. At 18.1 microns he is very suited to the merino flock which requires the frame size and wool quality to be enhanced or a merino flock which incorporates a terminal sire program as well.               .

No. 2 Ram.    This sire is a quality merino ram also used in the stud in 2009, mainly to try to replicate his wool qualities.  While he has not the frame of the lead ram it is his fleece type which singles this sire out above the others.  He is from the KWA Black Tag family and has a well nourished wool with very good crimp definition and soft handle, he is well covered with a lot of fleece on his underline and down the legs with excellent staple length.

At 18.4 micron and a comfort factor of 99.9% along with his high quality and bulk of fleece he will be very useful to bulk up fine wool type flocks and add bodyweight also.