Yass and district annual cross-bred sale

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More than 14,000 crossbred lambs and wethers were presented across nine sale locations on the state’s Southern Tablelands. Buyers attended from Albury, Corowa, Dubbo, Forbes and Cowra to make the most of young and resilient sheep.

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00:00We're lucky enough that we have a couple of very good genetic packages within our district,

00:04which is Glenfinn and White Suffolks, or now called Bogo Genetics,

00:08which is the lambs here today, and they're tremendous lambs and comments made by purchasers today

00:13that this is our last sale, and I was right, they're ugly, the best lambs here today.

00:17And also we have Roe Allen polled orchards out of Yonge who are big suppliers of rams into the district.

00:22And so we have genetic packages of White Suffolks and polled orchards

00:26that have performed previously for lots of the buyers,

00:30and they come back and buy the same lambs every year because they're happy with the performance

00:33and they know the performance.

00:34We've had a really rough winter, or everybody has, and they were fed.

00:38They've been on self-fooders just in the last month, so that's given them a bit of a boost.

00:44But through winter it was tough, and we had a pretty ordinary lambing this year.

00:49Nutrition was down, obviously, through winter, and it was a very cold, bleak winter and heavy frost.

00:55And everybody's been in the same boat, you know, it's been tough.

00:59At the moment the greatest stress was probably finishing the shearing yesterday

01:02and then having all these things ready to go for the day.

01:06Got them all done, happy with them, they're all gone,

01:09and then these things are here ready to sell, so that's a bonus.

01:13Well, they've been on grain all their life, you know, as they were lambs.

01:17We didn't have as dry and bad as time as a lot of people,

01:20so we had a little bit of grass carryover and, yeah, their mothers just do very well

01:25and, yeah, they've done very well themselves.

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