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Advantages of wool-shedding

  • Nutrition is directed towards meat and milk - not wool.
  • Costs are cut dramatically - no need to shear or crutch.
  • No jetting, dipping, mulesing or need to tail dock.
  • No chemical treatment needed for fly or lice.
  • Ideal for organic lamb production.
  • Grass seed resistant.
  • Adaptable to arable, pastoral and tropical areas.

 

Prime Lamb Sires

  • Wiltipoll rams produce lean, growthy offspring which are hardy and adaptable. 
  • Lambs of superior meat quality are equally suited to domestic or heavy export trade.
  • Wiltipoll cross lambs maintain leanness to heavy weights under feedlot or supplementary feeding conditions with little fat being laid down.
  • Wiltipolls do not crawl and will readily remain in their allocated paddock.
  • Rams will breed all year round and can be crossed with other breeds to produce a prime lamb.

Maternal Traits

  • Wiltipoll ewes come into season in autumn - lambs are born in spring.
  • Ewes lamb easily, milk abundantly and have a high percentage of multiple births.
  • Percentages are usually 150% or better in a good season.
  • Ewes may be joined at 6 or 7 months of age but success depends on maturity and condition of ewe at joining.  Better feed at joining time results in more multiple births but twins come consistently from older ewes even on poorer pasture.


The Australian Wiltipoll Association
The President
Martindale
PO Box 620
Strathalbyn.SA.5255

Email: info@wiltipoll.com.au

 

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