Sheepbreeding: "A ram lamb, at just five or six months of age, is quite capable and willing to get sheep in lamb. Even his own mother will be fair game so any ram lambs that you keep should be kept separate from females by the time they are 3-4 months old. While an older, more experienced ram might mate with up to 250 ewes in a month a ram lamb can easily service up to 70 in his first year, so don�t discount them."

Ovita - Muscle Growth: "Ovita's Muscle Growth R&D program is focused on developing products that can identify animals with superior muscling qualities and modulate and improve muscle growth in intensive livestock production systems.
Ovita is developing DNA markers to be able to identify livestock that carry genes which cause increased muscling. "

Ovita - Sheep Breeding using Inverdale: "The number of lambs weaned per ewe wintered is a key driver of on-farm profitability. Inverdale�; is a naturally occurring change in the genetic code of the sheep X chromosome that boosts pregnancy scanning percentage and the potential number of lambs weaned. Ovita has developed a DNA test for animals with the Inverdale� gene that allows individual sheep to be screened for the presence of the Inverdale� gene. Results of testing can be used to generate an integrated breeding solution that takes into account feed availability and the management of Inverdale� and non-Inverdale stock."

Clear Hills Southdown Sheep Stud Australia: "The Hooper family have been on property at 'Clear Hills',Goorambat East, Victoria, Australia for 5 generations. The Southdown Stud was founded by Les Hooper at age 15 in 1928. The next year Les won his first Champion Ram at the Benalla Agricultural Show."

Julia Downs :: Southdown Sheep Stud: " He told me that the best meat he ever saw from lambs were Southdown x lambs. I had never heard of the breed and soon investigated into acquiring a southdown flock ram."