SheepMaster shedding sheep will be displayed at a field day on December 15 in Hawke’s Bay, along with commentary from their foundation breeder from Western Australia, Neil Garnett.
Garnett has spent the past 30 years breeding the wool off sheep in the quest for a highly fertile, easy care, functional animal for meat production, culminating in the launch of the SheepMaster breed in 2017.
The first New Zealand open day will be from 12.30pm at Glenlands Farm, 1330 State Highway 5, Glengarry.
Dean and Antoinette Martin have bred Wiltshires and Australian Whites and put SheepMaster semen into mainly Wiltshire flock ewes last mating, resulting in 189 crossbred lambs for display, along with their mothers.
Martin said he intends to put the crossbred ewe hoggets back to SheepMaster by AI next mating season.
According to Garnett the SheepMasters completely shed their coats during summer and the winter coat adapts to either cold or heat.
They are a composite of eight core breeds: Damara, Dorper, Van Rooy, White Suffolk, Finn, East Friesian, Kojak and UltraWhite.
