Sheep of the future

By focusing on production efficiencies, resilience and low touch traits, we breed for “greener lamb production”

Outstanding in adding value

Facial Eczema Tolerance
Industry leading FE tolerance programme – we test 80 ram hoggets from 16 sire lines annually and Waipuna Maternal is the most FE tolerant composite sheep in the industry.

Ewe Efficiency
Waipuna Maternal is a bold and moderately sized ewe that can rear a litter of lambs weighing the equivalent of her own live weight at weaning.

Milking Ability
Waipuna Maternal has a great ability to milk, ensuring good growth rates of her lambs until weaning and more lambs prime off mum.

Lamb Growth
Waipuna Maternal lambs have outstanding growth.

Hogget Fertility
Waipuna Maternal is an early maturing sheep, which other breeds will never physiologically match. This will enable you to commercialize financial returns from ewe hoggets onwards.

Excellent Reproduction
Despite harsh mating conditions she maintains good pregnancy scanning results, as proven in dry East Coast conditions.

Compared to industry **

As the genetic gains graph shows, our 2024-born rams have an average genetic merit of 3,416 cents greater than the average industry ram per ewe mated.

This equates to a marginal value of $8,740 per Waipuna ram over the average industry ram, assuming the ram is used for 3 years and 140% lambing percentage.

          That is $87,400 more over 1000 ewes mated!

                           ** Values are based on NZGE run 42560 May 2025

Genetic gain for NZMW + FE index **

Waipuna Maternal is flock 4591 on nProve.
Look us up on nProve and see for yourself.

Our average of Waipuna Maternal 2024-born rams is equivalent to the industry percentile band**

Waipuna Terminal

Maximizing your grass into dollars

By breeding a productive terminal with growth, meat yield, lamb survival and eating quality

Perfect for adding value

Lambing Percentage
If your lambing percentage is high, a higher ratio of Waipuna Terminal sires can be used at mating (see graph). Some of our clients use Waipuna Terminal rams over 50% of their breeding ewes.

Heavier Lambs Earlier
The big advantage of mating a greater portion of ewes to a Waipuna Terminal sire is more and heavier lambs away in the first and subsequent drafts.

Production Efficiency
Production efficiencies can be optimized with Waipuna Terminal rams, as large lambs can be produced at weaning from moderate sized efficient (Waipuna Maternal) ewes.

Optimized Growth
Waipuna Terminal rams have been purposely bred for growth and meat yield, so their offspring are always going to outperform straight maternal offspring.
We have many clients killing lambs at 24kg carcasses.

Breeding for value

The Waipuna Terminal is an open composite. We source the best terminal stud sires that will us the best growth and meat yield traits for the Waipuna Terminal. In addition, we focus on stud sires that are darker and have a downier type of wool. Ensuring marking at birth and reducing the need of shearing.                 

Genetic Solutions

Maximizing your grass into dollars

By demonstrating how much the ram team suited to your needs can add to your bottom-line

Tailored genetic solutions

1- Determine on-farm breed objective
Assist with determining your on-farm breeding objective

2- Make genetics “visible”
Genetic merit of your ewes is made “visible” based on your past ram purchases

3- On the right track?
Determine if the current genetic merit on-farm aligns with your breeding objective and current on-farm production

4- Marginal value
Express in dollar terms how much the correct ram team can add to your bottom-line

5- Recommendations
Recommend sire and breed selections and a guide to help with your next ram purchase that suit your on-farm objective

Do you ever wonder...

•How do I know what rams have the right genetics for my circumstances?

•What is the genetic merit of my ewe flock?

•What does all that genetic language mean?

•How can I make sure I get this right?            

Tailored ram selections & sales

We select a pool of rams that fit your specific genetic needs, so you can pick the final ram team on "looks".
Ensuring you get the best genetic package.