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Our Purples are very easy to manage. They have great constitutions,
good frame, cut a lot of wool and are still fine.
Growing a sheep like that gives you plenty of options. With size
and frame the ewes can always produce a good sized crossbred lamb,
and there’s a market for our wethers.
We haven’t gone into crossbreds. Realistically, if you can
get enough size and wool weight in that 17 to 19.5 micron into your
Merinos you can get just as much for your Merinos as you can for meat
sheep. In January, for example, we sold one and a half year old ewes
for $80.50, December shorn. Plus we’d basically had the value
of two shearings from them: in February 2005 they had 62 mm on them,
and again in December 2005 they cut an average 4.5 kilos of 16.6 micron
wool.
So when you look at the money you can get from re-stockers, plus
the wool value, you’re basically getting the same as from a
cross bred. That’s the way we’re looking at it.
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