Future Directions

We are driven by the demands of our clients and end users and are continously evolving the type of sheep we produce.  To meet these demands and to remain at the fore front of the industry we are continously benchmarking our Merino Stud.

Roseville Park is one of only a few studs that do q wide range of industry comparsions such as Central Test Sire Evaluation, wether trials, fleece competitions, Merino Select (Sheep Genetics), client ewe flock competitions and shows and sales.

Our customers can be assured that they are buying a genetic package that has been independently tested in a variety of ways and will rapidly increase the genetic gain of their flocks.  We have so much faith in this statement that we quarentee every ram that we sell.

Our aim within the stud ewe breeding flock is to maintain our current micron and to increase fleece weights, body weight, eye muscle depth and reproduction rate.

This being acheived by rigorously measuring these traits for the past eight years and using a Merinoselect 7% Dual Purpose index.

The last few years have seen some outstanding proof of our genetic gain in thee traits with sale rams at Dubbo National weighing around 150kg, testing between 16 & 19 micron cutting up to 16Kg of wool.

Benchmarking

At Roseville Park, The Coddington family have always benchmarked their genetics to the merino industry. Ever since George Coddington won one of the earliest known wether trials at Cootamundra three years in succession in the late 1940’s Roseville Park sheep have always shown their proven genetic predictability and ability to lift grower’s bottom line.

Having won the most prestigious awards and gained the top prices and averages at the major events around the country we have proven that our sheep have stood up to and succeeded against some very tough oponents.

Sheep genetics is underpinned by best practice quality assurance system for data entry, accuracy and genetic linkage before breeding values are published.  Roseville Park is using a 7% DP (dual purpose) index which is designed to maitain micron and increase fleece weight, body weight and reproduction.

This graph below shows the consistant performance of all of Roseville Park sires used in Sire Evaluations since 1990. We have entered sires into central test sire evaluation since it’s inception and have found it a very useful tool for comparing our sires with hundreds of Australia’s top sires. Sire evaluation is an independent evaluation of merino sires and offers a high level of assurance in the integrity of data collected and the corresponding estimation of sire performance.

Roseville Park's evolving role in benchmarking has gone to a new level. Over the past few years the implementation of Sheep Genetics has been undertaken. Australian Sheep Breeding Value data from all of our sires and progeny are measured. Sheep Genetics is the worlds largest sheep genetic information source with performance records on more then 1.2 million merinos including over 7000 sires. Roseville Park has two sires in the top 13 sheep in the country on Merinoselects’ elites list.