Join us for the Turkey Lane Annual Sale on Friday, 14 November, featuring 59 top-performing ASBV Rams. This year’s sale boasts impressive statistics, with preliminary sale team on Sheep Genetics showing average performance in the top 5% for Fine Wool (FW) and Wool Production (WP), as well as the top 10% for Sustainable Merino (SM) indexes. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your flock with high-quality genetics!
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Although we didn’t think it was possible to start drier than 2024, this year certainly proved us wrong. The first four months brought barely half the rainfall we received over the same period last year. However, by the end of July, the tables had completely turned — our total rainfall had finally caught up to the long-term average, and we found ourselves completely waterlogged.
The late break meant supplementary feeding continued until July, but in the end, the wet conditions forced us to stop when we couldn’t even get the feed cart into the paddocks. Fortunately, this worked in our favour as we managed to scrape through by fully utilising every paddock on the farm.
After a sodden July, rainfall dropped below average through August, September, and October. Despite that, the drier spring allowed for good pasture growth, helping us recover well from the challenging start to the season.
All rams offered have received no preferential treatment and have been paddock reared on the property, where our average winter stocking rate is 15.8 DSE. This ensures that every ram has been performance tested under genuine commercial conditions. Our continued commitment to breeding sheep that are free of fleece faults has resulted in the 2024 drop producing our best wool yet – a true testament to the strength and consistency of our breeding program.
Once again, Turkey Lane has achieved a 5-star rating from Sheep Genetics for the quality and accuracy of our ASBV data. We put enormous effort into maintaining consistent, reliable, and precise data collection, ensuring our breeding values are among the most accurate in the industry.
Our breeding focus remains clear: to continue lowering micron and increasing wool cut, without compromising on wrinkle, worm resistance, or wool quality. The graphs below demonstrate how Turkey Lane stands out against the wider Merino industry and we are committed to pushing even further in this direction.
If you want heavy cutting, low micron rams with accurate ASBVs come to Turkey Lane annual ram sale held in November.
For the past eight years we have been entering rams into Sire Evaluation site at Balmoral (15-0077 – linked sire, 15-0071, 17-0060, 17-0055 , 19-0180, 20-0042, 22-0064) and New England (20-0042
) with hogget progeny leading in many of traits including tops, culls, FD, WT, EMD, FAT, GFW, SL & SS. The results from these trails are available on the following link
New England Sire Evaluation 2024 sire results with 20-0042 hogget progeny data – New England 2024 Field Day Results
Turkey Lane Merinos 