Coopworth

500 Ewes recorded on S.I.L. using Goal Traits:

Reproduction • Survival • Growth • Meat • Wool • Disease

• Worm FEC Tested for 16 years
• Foundation Member Apex Sire Referencing Group
• Mated by ‘Animate’ computer program
• Major Breed emphasis is being placed on meat traits

Texel

Graded up from a base of High Fertility Coopworth Ewes.
450 Ewes recorded on S.I.L. using Goal Traits:

Reproduction • Survival • Growth • Meat • Wool

Texel Rams used as the Crossbreeding Option will produce offspring that have :

• Exceptional vigor of lambs at birth.
• Higher resistance to internal parasites (fewer dags)
• High meat yielding export lambs
• Females that will be super-mums for high yielding export lambs

2 Tooth Rams

• All from a High Fertility background (dam & sire)
• All scanned E.M.A.
• All DNA tested for Myomax

Coopworth X Texel

Bred by mating High Fertility Myomax Gold Texel sires over High Fertility Coopworth Dams.

Clients use these sires as a cross breeding option.

• To maintain ½ Texel commercial ewes.
• All scanned E.M.A.
• Tested for Parasite Resistance.

Coopworth X Meatmarker®

All rams recorded on S.I.L. using Goal Traits

Reproduction • Survival • Growth • Meat • Wool • Disease

Bred by mating High Fertility Myomax Gold Meatmaker sires over High Fertility stud Coopworth Dams.

Clients use these sires as a cross breeding option.

• Over Texel cross commercial ewes to produce high muscled, high meat yielding Export Lambs.

Meatmarker® - (Poll Dorest X Texel)

The ideal Terminal Sire proven to produce lambs that are:

• Fast growing • High yielding from hoof to hook • C.P.T. Proven

• Mated by Animate computer mating
• All Ram Hoggets Eye Muscle Scanned (E.M.A.)
• Top Ram Hoggets C.T. Scanned
• All 2 Tooth sale rams DNA tested for Myomax
• All 2007 Born Females DNA tested for Myomax

Garth & Chris Shaw
Wharetoa, RD4, Balclutha,
South Otago, New Zealand

T/F: 03 415 9074
E: wharetoa@farmside.co.nz