one stop ram shop - ram profile catalogue 2012-2013

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Publication No. 882012-2013

Ram Profiles

RobiN HilsoN3600 State Highway 2 RD1 Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay, 4281Ph: (06) 855-8335Mob: 027 [email protected]

DeNNis MeaDeMatarikiRD2, WakefieldNelson 7096Ph: (03) 522-4112

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GUY belleRbY590 Gillespie Rd RD1 Te AnauSouthland 9679, Ph: (03) 249-8220Mob: 027 [email protected]

PeteR Kettle106 Scenic Road.RD3 WaipukurauHawke’s Bay, 4283Ph: (06) 858-9258Mob: 027 [email protected]

‘Paratu’ foreground, ‘Tarata’ background Rams for Argyle Station, Southland

CHRis soUtHGate20 Gordon Street P.O. Box 147Dannevirke 4942Ph: (06) 374-9862Mob: 027 [email protected]

blaiR GallaGHeR571 Upper Plain RoadRD8 AshburtonSouth Canterbury 7778Ph: (03) 303-9819Mob: 021 [email protected]

JeFF Moss3726 Old Coach RoadRD1 ClintonOtago 9583 Ph: (03) 415-7707

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ColiN bURlaCeBlairgrowie Road.RD OrmondvilleDannevirke, 4977Ph: (06) 374-1843Mob: 027 273-8394

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FiNN teXel• Tough lambs, extremely hardy• Well muscled• Durable, fertile ewes• Fecund hoggets• Easy-care sheep• Improving facial eczema tolerance

¼ FiNN ¼ teXel ½ RoMNeY• Finn prolificacy• Texel muscling and hardiness• Romney look• Tough, long living sheep• Suitable for most environments• Longevity

⅜ FiNN ⅜ teXel ¼ RoMNeY• Clear faced, bold• Tough• Visually attractive• Sexy and prolific• Very productive• Scans 180%+, few triplets

All SIL Recorded; NZ Animal Breeding Trust (Bureau)


¼ FiNN ¼ teXel ½ PeReNDale• Tough lambs, extremely hardy• Well muscled• Durable, fertile ewes• Fecund hoggets• Easy-care sheep• Scans 180%+, few triplets

teXel• Hardy, tough and good natured• Rams either terminal or breeder sires• Extremely well-muscled• White, bright, bulky 34 micron wool• Minimal winter feed requirements• High tolerance to parasites

FiNN• Rams and ewes sexually precocious• A fecund breed, 50% more lambs• Browsers rather than grazers• Good tolerance to facial eczema• Excellent survival, Longevity• Productive, with repeatable performance



teXel sUFFolK• Ideal sire for trouble-free hogget mating• Prime at low live weights• High liveweight to carcase weight yield• Ideal meat for niche markets• Hardy, tough lambs• Growth rates up to 400gms/day

DoRPeR• Rapid early growth rates• Non-seasonal mating• Highly fecund• Unmatched lamb survival• Muscled carcase, high yielding• Best ram for hogget mating

¾ teXel ¼ FiNN• Tough, extremely hardy lambs• Fecund hoggets• Easy-care, low maintenance• Low maintenance • Well muscled• Curious, inquisitive, alert



PeReNDale teXel• Very hardy, very tough, good natured• Best as maternal sires.• Extremely well muscled• White, bulky 34 micron wool• Low maintainance sheep• Outstanding lamb survival


66 day old OSRS hogget lambs. Superb, small carcases ranging from 10.1 to 13.7 kgs.

Performance recording since 1950. OSRS flocks are now seeking increased genetic gain in the traits of survival and growth rate. These traits have been the objectives for over a decade since the fertility reached ‘ideal’ levels.

Experience gleaned from exporting and processing both sheepmeat and wool is incorporated into OSRS breeding programmes.

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• To put more money in farmer’s pockets.SECONDARY

• Establishing Texel meat as a specialist branded product distinct from commodity sheepmeat.• Facilitating store stock sales of both breeding and finishing sheep within the North and South Island.

Finns and Texels have been farmed for 25 years. OSRS, TMG (Texel Marketing Group) and client’s stock are ideally positioned to take up any emerging market opportunity.

OSRS provides ideal genetics for ‘pasture to plate’ technology.

OSRS stabilised sheep breeds are found throughout all New Zealand environments.


Jeff Moss, OSRS, Otago

Sale Venue Farm Location Homestead

• SIL Recorded Top Elite Commercial

TEXEL• Texel 1000 800-700 600-500• Finn Texel 1000 800-700 600-500• ¼ F ¾ T 1000 800-700 600-500

PEREndaLE • Perendale Texel 1000 800-700 600-500• ½ P ¼ F ¼ T 1000 800-700 600-500

ROMnEY • ½ R ¼ F ¼ T 1000 800-700 600-500• ¼ R ³/8 F ³/8 T 1000 800-700 600-500

TEXEL • Texel Suffolk 1000 800-700 600-500

dORPER • Dorper 1000 800-700 600-500

FInn • Finn 1000 800-700 600-500

FE., TOLERanT FInn-TEXEL • 1000 800-700 600-500

Freight to south island $20/head. top Finn, texel semen $25/straw. teasers, all Finn crosses, young and sexy $190.

"What do you give your father for his seventieth birthday when he undoubtedly has everything he wants and has a reputation of running on the smell of an oily rag anyway?

The artwork above is from the pen of Malcolm Evans, of "Edna" fame. The Hero in the middle will be recognised by hundreds of like-minded sheep people all over New Zealand- a pretty good likeness, you will agree.

The opportunity to add the other side of Robin into this bit of history was too good to miss. You will have recognised the face but did you know about all the other things that spin his wheels?

The One Stop Ram Shop sign had to go in there. And some sheep. Robin's phobias and dislikes are possibly a bit arse-about-face- he hates paradise ducks (note the smoking gun and the expired duck) and he has always loved spiders (there's one in the tree behind him). And not many grandfathers maintain a lifelong love of frogs either and one of life's joys for Robin is the pursuit of tadpoles and the rearing of copious quantities of fully fledged frogs from that old aquarium that sits outside the front door.

The pigs are kune kunes and they have been ever-present in Old MacDonald's yard since Richard brought two back from Hanmer over twenty years ago. The current pair are not the originals, mind you. Rhododendrons and cacti are also important- witness the forest of rhodos that followed Robin from "Tarata" to "Paratu". A labour of love and hopefully not included in his will!

And what caricature of RJD would be complete without Ram 4U? It was a second hand purchase in the first place and has been driven all over the country by the bloke who was so bad at teaching his own kids to drive that their mother had to take over the job after just one day. The fact that Ram

4U is automatic has no doubt helped immensely as Robin never really got the hang of clutches or the general order of gears.

So it is indeed fitting that both the Old Man and his trusty Old Car have made this significant milestone and we are immensely proud of what he has packed into the forty-odd years we've known him.

But what do you give him for his eightieth? A new car?"

Richard, Jane and Alastair

Robin HilsonHawkes Bay

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OSRS Openday. Visitors from everywhere.OSRS, Burnside.

Brothers John and Dennis Meade (OSRS, Nelson) with Robin at Burnside.

Australian clients. Many international groups call into OSRS; Europeans, South Africans, Asians and South Americans came in 2010-2011.

Scott and Bruce Wills, Robin at OSRS Openday. Bruce is the new Federated Farmers chairman; he will be excellent.

Victoria Tavener and Clare Callow; Animal Breeding Trust and SIL, experts who collate performance data for OSRS flocks.

Peter Kettle, Mark Young (SIL), Robin. Mark is responsible for the development of Sheep Improvement Ltd., which is important for NZ’s sheep industry.

Three government departments commissioned Dr Benseman(Massey) to interview selected small businesses about management issues.

Philip Holt with Peter Kettle. Texel-Suffolks have performed well on dry HB hills for Philip.

Robin, Peter Chamberlain. Sheep farming and rural politics are always discussed. Both Canterbury bred.

Colin Bond, Dannevirke; Dorper enthusiast. OSRS, Paratu.

Peter Matthews (Otoka Angus, Waipukurau) with his Texel-Suffolk rams.

John Hindrip, Ruatoria, Gisborne. Low maintenance Dorpers are tough, ideal for John.

Joy Gray loved Rupet, the ‘ball-pushing’ Dorper lamb. Rupet adored Joy. ‘Ru’ the pet lamb

Spring 2010 came eventually. Late tailing. November, Tarata

Wairarapa College Students visit annually as do other educational institutions. OSRS, Paratu.

English school students at OSRS. Visits foster a understanding of the NZ sheep industry and OSRS.


Beautiful Central Hawke’s Bay Lamb Country, (and Joy).Tarata.

Robin has planted over 30 kms of shelter at One Stop Ram Shop and established two QEII Covenants.

Metres of young, brown loam, no wonder Tarata grows grass. Note the digger, it looks tiny.

Texel-Suffolk ewes scanned at near record levels. Paratu 2011.

Richard Lee (Vet) inseminated Dorper ewes with Australian semen carefully chosen by Peter Kettle (RHS). Paratu

Logical comments to the media about levy wastage led to M&W NZ’s ignominious loss of the wool levy. TV3 with Robin at Waimumu, Southland.; political interview.

Pilots, not monkeys. See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. Napier airport.

Paulo Schwab, Dayanne and Robin. Texel talk. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, April 2011

Alaskan iceberg. Time to read a OSRS newsletter, no sheep to look at.

John Little’s boat moored in tranquil Admiralty Sound. John has visited OSRS every year, for a decade.

Alaska

Concrete, cables, elegance and pot holes. Brazil has style, huge rivers and pot holes.

Secondary roads become rivers frequently in Brazil.

Brazilian anacondas are big, but are they this big? São Paulo, Brazil

Presentation by Dayanne and Robin. Topics; performance recording, sheep management, marketing and future trends at OSRS. São Paulo State University, Botucatu.

Discussion about a Texel ram’s merit. Dayanne, Robin, Guilherme and Gisela (Vets). Piedade, São Paulo, Brazil

RAM 4U has now completed 595,668 ‘eventful’ kms. Next milestone (kilometrestone): 700,000 kms?

one stop ram shop - ram profile catalogue 2012-2013

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