2025 Australian Supreme Merino Ram

Hear from Collinsville's Tim Dalla on the stud's 2025 Australian Supreme Merino Ram of the year.

Transcript

00:00Do you want to just tell me a little bit about this ram?

00:03This ram is no fluke. That's what we do at Collinsville.

00:08We're always trying to make incremental improvements.

00:11It's embryo bred. It's by Lustre 33.

00:14It's a ram we sold 88,000 to West Ray and Lock River in 2021.

00:20His mum is Emperor 351215146.

00:25She was part of the Australian Pair in 2023.

00:34We deliberately do an embryo transfer program and make these straight together to try and improve them.

00:42We're able to balance, size, consistency, structure.

00:46We'll cut from the whole package.

00:48And that's what we're about at Collinsville.

00:50What's your plan?

00:52We've done everything.

00:53What's your plan with him? Will you retain him or sell him?

00:56We've done a stud side of it. We've retained a composite.

00:58We've already AI'ed some AI lambs and some embryo lambs on the ground already.

01:03So, yeah, we're very excited for the future.

01:07And we believe that he'll breed on because he's got a terrific medigree.

01:13And just finally, what does it mean to win?

01:17I know it's not the first time, but...

01:19Nah, it's just...

01:21To win the national ram, we've done it two years in a row.

01:27We've only really been shown for the last couple of years.

01:31No, perfect.

01:35Very good.