Murray Rogerson
- T: 0412 157 699
- E: murrayrogerson1954@gmail.com
- ‘Stirling’, 538 Astons Road, Glenthompson, Victoria, 3293
2022 On Property Sale Results
THE top ram at Stirling Dohne stud's Glenthompson sale has headed to an interstate buyer.
The ram - Lot 52 - sold to regular client, Steve Slape, Furner, SA, for $3000.
The sale averaged $1577 with 13 of the 28 rams offered sold. Continue reading
2019 Australian Sheep & Wool Show
With a new layout to the Dohne Marquee, traffic flowed well around the sheep and fleeces on display.
The Dohne show bags were a huge hit with approximately 400 being handed out, these show bags contained the 2019 Dohne Journal… Continue reading
2018 May Newsletter
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FOOT FORWARD – LOOK BACK
As a child before the advent of thibenzole sheep drench I remember both parents dagging sheep until well after 10PM completely enclosed by an 8 feet high… Continue reading
2017 October Newsletter
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STIRLING DOHNE – A BROAD GENETIC BASE – UARDRY DAUGHTER STUD
The 2014 joining Dam List within her Sire’s Grouping. The 287 ewes were sired by 63 different sires leaving an average of 4.6… Continue reading
2017 May Newsletter
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THE MISGUIDED QUEST FOR SIZE
“Just like Showing,” ASBV’s are tapping into the “individual survival driven” human desire for size. Efficiency conversion rate is roughly inversely proportional, for every 10-fold decrease in bodyweight, conversion… Continue reading
USING PERCENTILES TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER CHOICE
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WHAT DO WE GAIN?
1. SPEED AND ACCURACY CONVERSION FROM ACTUAL TO PERCENTILE
2. SPEED AND ACCURACY TO READ PERCENTILE COLOUR-CODED TABLE
3. LANGUAGES ARE CONVERTED TO ONE WITH EMBEDDED ACCURACY… Continue reading
ASBV – NLW DEFICIENCES
The ASBV system has been inherited from the pig and poultry industries where climate and feed is controlled and as such are strongly linked. Remember inaccuracies of the N.L.W traits are exaggerated by more excessive environmental interference than all other… Continue reading
COMPARING LAMB PRODUCTION SELECTION METHODS
Remember that birth type and wean type are single year events whereas N.L.W and ADWR are generationally linked sheep like apple trees bear on second-year wood.
1. Note that ADWR’s slight decrease from single born to single wean can be explained by the increased number of twin-born in the column which will be lighter.
2. Note NLW’s record of no difference between twin-born and twin wean is a figure failure within a strategic area of selection within properly. Continue reading
HISTORY
Arguably Australia’s most reflective Uardry daughter stud, founded in 2005 with 820 embryo transfers from 20 Uardry flushing ewes in 5 years, selecting for soft-volumed, balanced maternal off grass with damp climate wools and high wean ratio’s.
Uardry additions 2006-09,… Continue reading
A.D.W.R DEFINITION
Daily Wean Ratio is the weight of ewe divided by the weight of lamb at weaning and adjusted to 100 days. At Stirling this is also accrued from season to season as a multi-year figure and from generation to generation… Continue reading