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Eyre White Sheep are a composite breed designed to survive harsher conditions, finer features in some ways and hardy with strong selection for fertility and mothering ability.

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Our current operation north of Keith in South Australia on 4300 acres breeds rams, breeding ewes and of course turns out pasture fed lambs for market. We welcome visitors and are always open to new ideas and approaches. In wetter years, these sheep can lay down fat stores to the extent that we have had issues with them becoming cast. As a result our ewes are lambing every 8 months to maintain condition.

Tail docking is unnecessary as they are clean shed so fly strike is irrelevant. Sheep subsequently have less incidence of arthritis introduced by infection points by docking. We are aiming to produce fat lambs on pasture feed ready for market every 8 months across the year.

 

We are a closed flock with Brucellosis Accreditation. Good animal hygiene, care and general quarantine practices are important to us.