Merinotech

Merinotech is a Western Australian group of performance-based Merino ram breeding enterprises.

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Rams in, rams out, ewe lambs midside sampled, shorn and fleece weighed, adult ewes shorn and fleece weighed. That’s Feb and March in a nutshell! Next up preg scanning! https://t.co/h9uManI8iu

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Will we see you at our annual Open Day on Friday?! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear the latest on whole-body energy and lamb eating quality plus the genetic progress we’re making at Merinotech.

Morning tea and lunch provided.

More info: https://t.co/Ek6AwrnR3V

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📆 Pencil it in to your calendar!

We look forward to you joining us for a morning of presentations focused at farm-level. More information on our Open Day presentations to come.

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Come along to our Open Day next Friday to hear from @amy_lockwood_ of @neXtgenAgri about the benefits of Merinotech sheep, their performance and the genetic progress being made by the nucleus and RBC flocks.

📆 Friday 10th October
🕥 9:30am
📍122 Wahkinup Road, Scotts Brook WA

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More info: https://t.co/idwZ1XAel6

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Keen to hear about the new technologies informing the MSA model for lamb? Make sure to come along to our Open Day and hear from Professor Graham Gardner about predicting eating quality for sheep.

📆 Friday 10th October
🕥 9:30am
📍122 Wahkinup Road, Scotts Brook WA

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@Marbarrup @neXtgenAgri

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Introducing our first speaker for our 2025 Open Day - John Young of Farming Systems Analysis Service

Make sure to join us for an informative morning of presentations with sheep also on display.

📆 Friday 10th October
🕥 9:30am
📍”Marbarrup”, 122 Wahkinup Rd, Scotts Brook WA

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📆 Pencil it in to your calendar!

We look forward to you joining us for a morning of presentations focused at farm-level. More information on our Open Day presentations to come.

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We’ve also been busy with the 24-drop nucleus and Marbarrup RBC rams - midside sampling, fleece weighing and faecal sampling for individual WECs. Next up, lamb marking! @Marbarrup

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And that’s a wrap on lambing 2025! 677 nucleus lambs tagged at birth, weighed and a few traits recorded, kicking off their data collection journey! https://t.co/k18hMdAyLD

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Note the blue dot on the lamb is spray mark - to keep track of who’s been tagged from a distance! All lambs born have dam, MBS, BT, sex, BWT and a couple of other traits recorded.

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It’s been a busy week for the Merinotech nucleus and ram breeder @Marbarrup!
Foot scoring the 24-drop ewes ✅
Midside sampling the 24-drop nucleus rams ✅
YWT, CS and structural checks for the 24-drop rams ✅
Start of lambing 2025 ✅

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Join this webinar at 1pm tomorrow to hear how Merinotech ram breeders @Marbarrup are using EID in their ram breeding and commercial flocks. You’ll also get to hear from @Fergenetics about using EID to boost productivity and profitability.

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📢 UPCOMING WEBINAR
Want to learn how EID can improve your productivity and profitability, plus how to get started?

Join our free webinar "Using EID for profit and productivity" at 1:00pm on Tues, May 6.

Visit the link to learn more and register: https://t.co/zWipZ543VH

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@Marbarrup

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks at Merinotech with the rams completing their hot dates and the 24-drop ewes being dag scored, midside sampled, shorn and fleece weighed. https://t.co/CzwX9uLjy9

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The rams are back from the bush and met their matches on Valentines Day, ready for their 5 weeks of work! We’re keen to see how the progeny perform these 10 sires. https://t.co/VsAAXc699p

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The team at @Marbarrup were busy this week EMD & fat scanning the MA ewes + collecting their pre-joining WT & CS. Research suggests that fat measurements may be an indicator of whole body energy, so we’re hoping this data will contribute to better understanding the correlation.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Merinotech team! Thanks to our members, ram purchasers, underbidders and followers for supporting Merinotech throughout the year. We look forward to seeing what we can achieve in 2025.