2018 season ram hoggets
Breeding your Romneys your way: 1) Mob stocking 2) Minimal intervention 3) Commercial environment 4) Performance recorded Contact us here.
Structural soundness
Wairere has over 20,000 animals recorded on SIL (Sheep Improvement Limited). Performance is ranked accordingly to a number of goal traits which are chosen based on our clients requirements. However, good figures not always translate into a good ram. It is...
2017 Scanning Results
Photo: The testing ground at Wairere New Zealand in the good autumn of 1986. In July 2017: 2,600 ewe hoggets at 42kg scanned 112% 1,400 two tooths at 62kg scanned 190% 3,800 mixed age ewes at 69kg scanned 205%
Your future in sheep farming?
Bare Hair ewes in the UK, part of a flock of 3,000 in the UK. 85% of Wairere's embryos came from this flock, which is farmed outdoors all year round, on rented grazing, mostly with no fertiliser input. The season There have been extremes across the country. Half New...
Start at the top
Wairere Romney x "Multimeat Merino", just tailed at Wannon Pastoral, Australia. Second cut of 2,000 sold at weaning, 100 days old, 29kg $a140. Top cut went to own feedlot for February contract at $8.50/kg carcass weight.Take the best Romney genetics in New Zealand and...
Going for gold
Roger and Matthew Smith's magnificent ewe hoggets, scanned 141 %, story later. Wairere Romneys put a distinctive stamp on their progeny around the world, in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Chile. Example: Jim Logan in Scotland has saved £100,000...