Southern Ram Sale Marks Meadowslea Centennial Breeding – Farmers Weekly

Meadowslea Romneys celebrates a breeding century this year with the first of the seven planned sheep and cattle sales to be held in Gore, where the Giddings Family Genetics business has begun.

The sale of the southern ram offer will be 40 Terminator Rams and a selection of rams for breed mother, including Romneys.

In 1925, when Gilbert took a train to Gore to buy sheep, he was still a teenager and not an adult enough to register them on his own behalf so that the first sheep of Meadowja, where he registered in the name of a mother MU, D -Sarah Giddings.

Meadowslea in Fairlie in southern Canterbury is now governed by Gilbert David’s son and grandson George. George has a son named Gilbert and all three generations live in the property.

The centenary is a good time to take stock, with Meadowslea now consisting of about 3000 recorded sheep, filled on four properties with 700 registered Angus cows.

Along with the base flock of Meadowslea Romney, the operation now includes worms resistant Kiki South Romneys, Romdales, Texel X Romney, Perendale X Texel X Romney, Kelso Xk Romney, as with the black face of the facial terminator.

All breeds are performed without a high survival and low input easy care, the cornerstone of the breeding program.

David said that while there were huge changes in the breed and its implementation during these years, some things did not change at all with the foundations of structural strength and the strong constitution, as appropriate, as they were in 1925.