Coolalee experiment pays dividends for Dubbo lamb breeders

By Mark Griggs
Updated August 16 2016 - 1:20pm, first published 12:30pm
Doug and Robin Godwin look over some of their first-cross ewes with 12- to 17-week-old Coolalee and Poll Dorset lambs grazing at “Alton Park”, Mogriguy, near Dubbo.
Doug and Robin Godwin look over some of their first-cross ewes with 12- to 17-week-old Coolalee and Poll Dorset lambs grazing at “Alton Park”, Mogriguy, near Dubbo.

AN EXPERIMENT several years ago using Coolalee rams over young first-cross ewes to overcome lambing difficulty from the ewes joining to high indexed Poll Dorsets has paid off so well for Dubbo region second-cross prime lamb breeders, Doug and Robin Godwin, they have continued the practice.

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