Modern Border Leicesters shine at Inverbrackie sale

Inverbrackie principal Lynton Arney talks about his Border Leicester sale, with 197 out of 254 rams selling to an average of $1719.

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00:00We're very pleased with the sale today but it's one of our best offerings that we've had

00:07and those rams have presented really well after a very tough start to the season

00:13and once we got the green feed they've just bloomed and continued to grow after that.

00:20So again we're very pleased with the line-up that we've got

00:23and well hopefully the purchasers have gone away very happy.

00:30We've had clients come a long way to purchase their rams

00:33but they're quite committed in the type of sheep that we're breeding

00:37and we've gone down the line of calling them modern Bordelesters

00:41because a lot of the clients have always said they're different to all the rest.

00:46A lot of our Bordelesters are being bred

00:48and so the branding of modern Bordelester is relating to the shape that we've got into them

00:57the fat and muscle as well as the data that we have

01:02where pretty well all rams would have been in the top 25% of the breed on the BLX index

01:10and so that helps the clients be able to buy with confidence to breed their prime lambs

01:19and the clients that we've got don't take things for granted

01:27a lot of them have actually put us under the microscope

01:31to make sure that they prove that what they're buying is performing for them

01:38and lots of James Starling that we presented gave a short small presentation to

01:45because he won the prime lambs producer of the year

01:50for the way he analyses his data and the top of sheep that he's breeding

01:56has just been phenomenal to get that sort of feedback back from someone.

02:01Thank you very much, thank you.