LOOKING for a ram which would increase the sirey character of their Wirlinga Park male progeny, Julie and Grant Glinski, Albury, found it standing against their junior and grand champion ewe for the breed supreme award at the 2016 Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Bendigo, Victoria.
Mrs Glinski said she thought the ram would be out of her price range, but teaming up with the van Niekerk family, Dell stud, Moama, a couple of days before the sale, the partnership bid top $15,000 money to secure Kaya White stud’s Bendigo supreme exhibit at the 14th annual Dorper and White Dorper National Sale at Dubbo last week.
The sale cleared 53 of 59 rams at auction for an average of $2758 while 10 of 12 stud ewes topped at $1900 twice to average $1190.
Kaya 140231 (ET), is a 26 months-old ram of pure Kaya blood weighing 99 kilograms showing an eye muscle depth of 50 millimetres.
Kaya stud principal, Adrian Veitch, Narrogin, Western Australia, said the ram was of his own breeding that went back to a ram he sold at Dubbo National in 2012 for $14,000, Kaya 090123 bought by Back Creek White Dorpers, Narrabri.
Moozie and Andrea van Niekerk of Dell stud said their selection was the best ram in the catalogue.
“Good meat, good topline, an excellent stud sire,” Moozie van Niekerk said.
“What the W D breed needs.”
“ He was supreme at Bendigo and has a good sire line which has bred consistently well.”
Wirlinga Park stud has been most successful exhibitor at Bendigo for the past three consecutive years.
Kaya stud sold three rams to average $11,000 including the $10,000 second top-priced ram by the same sire as the top-priced ram but weighing 107.5kg, selling to Gary and Stacy Cullinan, Dust N Rain studs, Carstairs Station, Wentworth.
Another at $8000 weighing 112.5kg was bought by the Milne family, “Boomey”, Condobolin.
This was another Kaya blood ram whose dam was sired by Etiwanda A3313 ET.
Lyle and Virginia Wykes, Gamboola stud, now based at Parkes, paid $7500 for another 26 month-old Riverside stud ram bred and offered by the Stevenson family, Cunderdin, WA.
This ram is by a Red Rock sire and from a Riverside blood dam.
Jamie McTaggart, Saltbush stud, Port Augusta, Soyuth Australia purchased three rams for a $4100 average inclduing the $6500 son of the well bred Bellevue Wembley, a type 5 sire from the Curtis family’s stud at Millmerran, Queensland.
The sale was conducted by Landmark and Elders, Dubbo, with John Settree and Paul Jameson the auctioneers resectively.