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BREEDERS OF QUALITY HORN & POLLED WILTSHIRE CONTACT DETAILS: Wilkamdai StudPH: 03 53 340 588 or 0409 190 776 Postal: P.O. Box 2398, Ballarat Mail Centre, 3354 Australia Welcome to our Wiltshire web page. The Wiltshire is the perfect sheep for those of
us who do not have the time or
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Why the Wiltshire Horn ?
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Pricing & Contact Details
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Key Information: Don’t have the time for sheep, Consider them to be too much work?? Then you haven’t heard of the Wiltshire Horn!!
Productivity: The Wiltshire is a highly productive sheep usually with a lambing rate or over 200% and can continue breeding for many years (up to 9 seasons in some cases). They are seasonal breeders with excellent mothering abilities. Two year old ewes are usually joined from February onwards and lambing begins from July/August onwards. The Wiltshires are renown for easy lambing due to their wedge shape and the ewes have plenty of milk for twins and even triplets! The lambs are born with a real will to live and lots of vitality. They have protection from severe weather from the moment they are born due to having a fuzzy coat which is shed after 45 days, giving them a great start to life. Although, born usually at lighter weights than many other breeds (adding to birthing ease), the Wiltshire lamb will exceed the weights of other breeds within the first two months after birth. This makes the Wiltshire perfect as a terminal sire of prime lambs in both pure & cross-breeding programs.
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One of our 5 year old Wiltshire horn ewes |
Description of a Wiltshire Horn Sheep
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HEAD |
Male and female horned. Horn falling back with a uniform graceful curve clear of head. In the male a stronger horn with a second curve. |
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FACE |
Wide, medium length, pure white in colour |
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EYES |
Big, bright, quick, prominent, fearless |
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EARS |
Inclined to be long and broad |
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NOSE |
Wide nostril, flesh part preferably dark. Roman profile |
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NECK |
Medium length. In rams wide at the poll and back of ears and gradually enlarging in all lines to a strong full junction at the shoulder. Ewes lighter and more feminine |
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SHOULDER |
Wide and oblique |
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CHEST |
Deep with a well filled brisket |
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BACK AND LOIN |
Long and level, well covered with flesh |
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RIBS |
Well sprung with a full heart girth |
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LEGS |
Forelegs straight and wide apart. Hind legs full of meat to a well angled hock. Strong pasterns and sound feet. |
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UNDERLINE |
Good and straight. Naked |
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SKIN |
Pink in colour, black ticking permitted |
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WOOL |
The "fleece" consists of kemp fibers. Total weight per year is about 1kg with a probable staple length of about 2 cm. The wool is shed annually in the spring and early summer by both sexes. The shedding first occurs at two to four months of age. It begins on the neck, chest and shoulders, spreads along the underline, and then up round the flanks to the back of the rump. |
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GROWTH RATE |
Lambs have an extraordinary vitality at birth. Unlike other breeds they are born with a kind of hair covering which amply protects them from the cold. The growth rate is very rapid often in excess of 1/2kg a day. Carcass killing - out ratio is over 60% |
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From the ‘Australian Society of Breeders of British Sheep Limited Australian
Flock Register’
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