February is ram lamb selling time at Wairere!
Each year, Wairere make available about 1,500 ram lambs for sale. These lambs are the product of performance recorded ewes from our Romney and composite stud flocks. They were weaned early December 2016 and will be eye-muscle scanned late January 2017. Faster genetic...
November was ram selling time at Wairere
Check out our video on how our rams get sorted for sales. Every year we make available around 3,000 rams for sales which makes us one of the largest ram breeders in New Zealand with nearly 90 years of ram breeding experience. For those who live in New Zealand, we are...
Where’s the upside
Wairere ewes with purebred Nudie lambs at eight weeks oldSheep farmers are under siege. A siege caused by a combination of falling prices, fast rising costs, and a government determined to frame livestock farmers for a crime against the world climate…blame the...
Good times are here
Earl Twigley, manager for Humphrey Bayly on Okare Station, Wairoa, at Wairere, November 2021. Okare has been buying Wairere rams since 1987, except for a brief interval with Perendales twenty years ago. Earl is a quiet achiever, consistently lambing in the high 130s...
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...