White Suffolks for prime lamb production
Are you a prime lamb producer looking for high fertility and lambing ease?
Are you wanting to achieve consistent, early maturing lambs with great eating quality?
White Suffolks are a perfect choice to achieve these goals and boost your prime lamb production.
The use of White Suffolks in first and second-cross prime lamb production is becoming increasingly popular. Commercial producers are choosing to use White Suffolks over Merino and first-cross ewes for lambing ease, fast growth rates and more profitable returns.
High fertility
Better Lambing Ease
Fast growth rates and early maturing lambs
Improved carcase quality
Increased Lamb Survivability
Consistency
More profitable returns
Hear from producers below on how they have incorporated White Suffolks into their first and second-cross prime lamb enterprise.
Sam and Wayne Hasell, Myonagh, Dunkeld, currently join 1800 medium Merino ewes to White Suffolk rams and 2000 Merino/White Suffolk-cross ewes to Poll Dorset sires.
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The first-cross ewes are such a vigorous and tough breeding ewe. Their resilience and capacity to carry on and bounce back after some of our leaner seasons is a huge part of their appeal. They hold their condition well and as maidens they are one of the best mothers we've had. The Merino/White Suffolk-cross is also not as large as a traditional first-cross ewe which allows us to run higher stocking rates which equates to more lambs on the ground and more productivity on the farm.
Greg Fisher, Clover Ridge Pastoral, Marcollat, SA, runs 4300 Merino ewes on his property, mating 500 first-cross ewes to White Suffolk sires to produce second-cross prime lambs.
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The change to first-cross ewe and wether lambs and second-cross prime lambs has provided us with a more profitable return and flexibility depending on the season. We did our research and the lambing ewes and great yield percentage we were continually seeing with White Suffolks was a perfect fit for our first-cross ewes. We sell our lambs off mum in mid-August at 14 to 16 weeks of age at an average dressed weight of 23 kilograms. If you can produce a consistent, quality product you can have the confidence it will sell in any season.
