Circuit to offer quality breeding ewes

Boasting the tag line "Top of the Drop Special Ewe Sale" the sale on Monday, October 3 will feature a first class line-up of breeding ewes ranging from young ewes aged 1.5 years with their whole breeding life in front of them through to mature matrons in the 4.5 to 5.5yo age bracket.

The sale will also feature a good number of wether lambs for producers looking for turnover stock.

This year for the first time the sale will be interfaced on AuctionsPlus, which means buyers who can't get to the sale, can still operate by bidding online.

A full catalogue and photos of the lines on offer will be on the AuctionsPlus website (www.auctionsplus.com.au) prior to the sale.

The sale will kick off at the Corrigin saleyards at 11am where the yarding will comprise of 3540 ewes and 3200 lambs.

Elders Corrigin representative Tony Douglass said once again this year the sale will feature a number of lines from regular sale vendors at both yards that always create interest among buyers.

"The sheep are in very good condition following a good season and will present very well," Mr Douglass said.

The 1.5-year-old offering at Corrigin will start with an impressive line of 400 July shorn, Claypans blood ewes from regular vendors Chas Hewitt & Co, Corrigin.

Mr Douglass said the operation's sheep have been keenly sought after in the past by buyers and this year's line up was of the same quality.

"They are well grown young ewes with good wools," he said.

Rockwell Farms will also offer a large draft of young ewes, when they truck in 440 August shorn, Chirniminup blood F3 Dohne ewes.

This line will present a great opportunity for producers looking for ewes carrying some Dohne blood and they are a genuine dispersal line.

They are good framed sheep with good fertility and the operation has always purchased sires at the top end of the Chirniminup sale.

Another line not to be missed in the young ewes at Corrigin will be 260 1.5yo ewes from HJ Wilkins & Son, Narbethong stud, Kondinin.

The ewes are based on the stud's own breeding and will be fresh off shears (September shorn).

In the older ewe lines at Corrigin producers will not want to miss the 260 4.5yo and 250 5.5yo proven matrons from regular vendors the Young family, WG Young & Co, Kondinin.

The Young's ewes are large framed, February shorn and based on close to 15 years of Eastville breeding.

Their wool clip for their adult sheep averages 20.5 micron with a 7kg wool cut.

Trevino Farms, Trevino stud, Southern Cross, will also offer proven ewes when it trucks in 230 July shorn, Trevino blood, 5.5yo ewes.

In the lamb offering it will be an impressive line of thumping wether lambs from Trevino Farms which will get it under way. The lambs are July shorn and based on the operation's Trevino stud bloodlines.

They are expected to average around the 46kg liveweight.

Also offering sizable drafts of wether lambs in the sale will be AL & S Crossland, who will truck in 600 September shorn, Rutherglen blood lambs and D & T Kilminster, who will offer 550 Claypans blood, unshorn lambs. At the completion of the Corrigin leg the sale will move to the Wickepin saleyards with this section of the sale starting not before 1.30pm.

The feature of this offering will be a draft of 840 young ewes from Kulin producers Adrian and Trish Tyson, AD & PA Tyson.

The line will be a genuine dispersal of the Tyson's entire 2015 drop.

The ewes are May/June drop and were shorn on August 16 in preparation for the sale.

The family has been based on Kolindale bloodlines for the past four years and prior to that they were on Lewisdale bloodlines.

The well-grown productive ewes will not disappoint prospective buyers and when shorn they averaged 19 micron.

The Tyson's flock overall averages 21 micron and 100 per cent lambing without pregnancy testing.

They have also had all the health treatments being fully vaccinated with Weanerguard, Eryvac, Scabiguard and drenched annually.

Other sizable drafts at Wickepin in the 1.5yo run will be 600 head from PJ & EJ Doyle, which are August shorn and based on Rutherglen blood and 600 High Valley blood, September shorn ewes from RA Iffla & Partners.

Rounding out the bigger drafts will be Morlup Nominees, with 430 Barloo/Rutherglen blood, August shorn ewes and AG & AM Carmody with 400 Collinsville blood, September shorn, 1.5yo ewes, while GT & B Poultney, will offer 395 Strath-Haddon blood, August shorn 1.5yo ewes.

Another genuine line in Wickepin will be offered by Hotham Flats Farming.

The operation is putting forward 354 AMS/Borondi blood, August shorn, 2.5yo ewes.