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| Haddon Rig Poll Stud
(Registered Flock No.1409)
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An exciting new page has turned at Haddon Rig with the registration of a new Poll Stud in March 2010. The stud has been developed with the intention of meeting the change in the Merino Industry and capitalising on the need for more lambs, more meat and eventually the eradication of Mulesing.
The Stud was started off in September 2008 with the purchase of 3 Poll Rams from Leahcim Poll Merino Stud near Snowtown in South Australia. Two of these rams have been used extensively in our new stud (Leahcim 070511 x L154 purchased for $7000 and Leachim 070297 x L24 purchased for $5000).We also purchased 100 doses of Moorundi Park 106 which was sold in Adelaide 2008 to Poll Boonoke for $12,000.
The ewes consisted of two bloodlines of ewes, The first being 218 Severn Park stud ewes purchased from the dispersal sale of Severn Park Merino Stud in 2008. These ewes provided Haddon Rig Polls with very big fertile plain bodied ewes with extremely soft lustrous wool, with an immediate mules-free advantage.
The second lot of 225 ewes were purchased from Lansdowne Poll Merino Stud near Tambo in Queensland. These ewes provided us with a very big, even, productive more traditional true Poll background.
The top 10 ewes were selected for an ET programme and the remaining 433 were Artificially Inseminated to the Leachim and Moorundi Park Sires in December 2009. The progeny of these programs are nearly 11 months old and are showing some very impressive characteristics.
185 09 Poll Rams were weaned on the 9th September 2009 (3 and a half months old) averaged 37 kg with the top weight being 48 kg, 98 of these rams were shorn on the 3rd March 2010 and averaged 4.8 kg ( 9 Months Wool) with the top weight being 7.3 kg.
At the end of May 2010 these Rams will have a yearling body weight recorded and an eye muscle measurement done to identify the bigger earlier maturing more productive rams of the drop.
We are very happy and excited with the way these Rams are progressing and because of the 2 different families in the stud; all of the rams are not completely mules-free yet but we intend to have the Haddon Rig Poll Stud Mules free in the not too distant future.
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