Top-priced ram reaches $4000 at Elders Gingin Invitational Ram Sale | October 15, 2024 | Farm Weekly - video Dailymotion

Vendor Ian Tubby, Bundaleer Australian Cleanskins, Gingin, talks about his top-priced ram which sold to Wayne Squires, NSW. Video by Mel Williams.

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00:00My name's Ian Tubby from Gin Gin.

00:03Yep, and now you've had sale today at Top Price Honours.

00:07Yes.

00:08Tell me about the Top Price Ram.

00:09This ram here, very clean shedding, and the buyer in the East Estates is sick of the wool on clean skin sheep

00:17and he wants to get the wool off as quick as he can.

00:20So I sold rams to him probably 15 years ago

00:25and he's very keen to get some good shedding genetics.

00:30So I knew before the sale that he was pretty keen to buy whichever, he wanted this particular ram

00:39and he's been successful so I think he'll do very well with it.

00:44That's great. Tell me a little about the clean skins, what's their best qualities or traits?

00:50Well, the fact that they're low cost productions, their biggest asset of course, no shearing.

00:55We've been running them since we started with Damra's back in the turn of the century

01:01and we were making seriously good money when the sheep were all going onto the export boat

01:07and then there's a few hiccups happened with boats being rejected and what have you.

01:12So we realised that Damra, which is what we were making most money out of,

01:15was probably only suitable for that market so we've had to make some suitable changes.

01:20I announced at the clean skin sheep seminar in 2010 that I was intending to mix up some different breeds

01:32to try and get the best out of all the African breeds that had come in

01:36and in 2011 I'd already started breeding them

01:40and I released the first Australian bred clean skin for Australian conditions in Australia.

01:46The only other one that had been done before that was the Wilkie Pole

01:50and that was a derivation of the Wiltshire but all for the same reasons,

01:55getting a sheep that doesn't require shearing.

01:58And what about their lambs, are you able to turn them off quickly?

02:03The clean skin sheep, their lambs are not known for being fast growing

02:09but if you use fertility is what's the important thing.

02:13You need to get 150% lambing and because the private lamb market in West Australia is very well catered for

02:22we realised that we were getting penalised and so we introduced the Charolais to go to the top of them.

02:29And a Charolais terminal sire across pretty much any ewe will give you a lamb that will hit the market

02:37three weeks before any other terminal sire, they're known for that which is important.