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Results of the 8th

Production Ram Sale

Thurs 3rd October 2020

The 7th Southern Production Sale held for the sixth time
at Caroonboon Station Wanganella, attracted a good
crowd with buyers registered from NSW, VIC, and SA.
Total offered. 83
Rams Sold. 83
Registered Buyers: 18

Top Price. $4,750 for Lot 3 DJ190041 was purchased by The Caroonboon team, Stevo, Benny, Jeremy, Mulla and Jack having a break
Coonong Pastoral Company, Urana NSW. They went onto between processing rams.
purchase another 4 rams.

DD Average $2,676.47 Top $4,750
CA Average $2,903.85 Top $3,500
UC Average $2,826.39 Top $4,250 Are Dohnes the Wallabies or

Sale Average $2,777.11
the All Blacks Jason Southwell Stud Master
Volume Buyers. Calga Uardry and DD Dohnes
Yaccabri Pastoral Co, Rankin Springs NSW
Yurdyilla Pastoral Co, Hay NSW
Timbie, Yeoval NSW
Cathcart Nominees Pty Ltd, Deniliquin NSW It is with great sorrow and frustration that I have watched the
JC & LM Clark, Hay NSW steady demise of the Australian Rugby team, from winning the
WD & PK Caldow, Edenhope VIC World Cup in 1999 to easy beats dropping to a lowly ranking of 7
SA & MJ & DE Eddy Mathoura NSW in the world.
I look back to my long-ago rugby playing days with the mighty
The sale was conducted by Landmark & Elders Studstock Hay Cutters; at every stage there were the one or two stand out
with Peter Godbolt and Ron Rutledge sharing the auction- players. The player’s player or the leading goal kicker. The best
eering. in a team of 15.
If they were very good, they made the Riverina representative
team, the best 15 out of 15 teams or if exceptional, they made
Country, the best 15 out of hundreds of players.
As the number of players increased it became a greater honour
to reach the top.
The 15 men that run on for the Wallabies are the best out of
230,000 registered players in Australia but as we have seen
recently are far from the best in the world.
You may ask what has this got to do with a sheep breed?
To the converted, the Dohne is a highly productive and profitable
breed well suited to the Australian environment. A true dual-
purpose breed with doing ability, fertility, meat with non mulesed
merino wool.
One of the major strengths of the Dohne breed is the compulso-
ry use of objective measurement to rank animals across breed
on their genetic merit.
Calga currently has the No 1 Dohne ranked sire in Australia, CA-
173301 with an index of 219%. He is in the top 5% of the Dohne
breed for post weaning weight, fleece weight and number of
lambs weaned.
In rugby terms he made the Cutters First 15 in 2017. The number
one ranked animal out of the 1,187 lambs tested at Calga for that
Photo Left to Right: Bulk buyers Angus Phelps, Ruth Phelps and year. He then went onto make country out of 19,831 Dohne lambs
Ian Clarke of Yurdyilla Pastoral Co, Hay NSW tested across Australia that same year. Finally, he has now se-
cured a position in the Wallabies as the number one ranked sire
across the Dohne breed.
But is CA-173301 good enough to be an All Black?
DOHNES ADVANTAGES As it stands there were 11,917 registered 2019 drop players in the
Dohne analysis. This compares to 99,800 registered players in
Faster Growth = Increase in Profit the Fine-medium merino analysis. Where would CA-173301 rank
Earlier Maturity = Greater Profitability out of 99,800 registered players, would he make the grade?
Are Dohnes the Wallabies or the All Blacks? Unless they meet
on the same rugby field we will never know.