A solid addition to any sheep and beef station and easily identified by their black faces – the Suffolk sheep is renowned for their superior meat conformation and fast growth rates.
Our Piquet Hill Suffolk sheep take these superior meat production qualities and pack them into a hardy and durable frame – built to withstand the demands of New Zealand sheep country, in a variety of environments.
Run in commercial conditions, you can be sure that your Suffolk purchase will stand the test of time, and form a strong addition to your farming operation.
Our Breeding Objective
Our Suffolk’s are renowned for their hardiness. This has come about through relentless culling for constitution and structure and facial eczema tolerance. A small infusion of Texel has also improved longevity, reduced frame size and improved yield to produce a Ram that is suited to almost any environment.
Our Key Drivers
The key drivers with our terminal program are to breed a ram that is structurally sound with solid growth figures that has an amount of eczema tolerance that is going to firstly protect the ram during mating and help protect hogget lambs from the onset of facial eczema in the autumn. Getting a balance between producing a ram that will survive and work in a challenging environment while still giving high end production is key.
Our Point of Difference
One of the only Flocks in New Zealand with a terminal sire FE testing program. We have seen the damage FE has had on sire fertility during mating, with dry rates in comparable cohorts being upwards of 12% higher due to infertility cause by sub clinical Facial Eczema.
The Piquet Hill Suffolk Ram Guarantees
- Flock facts
- 250 recorded ewes
- Flock run in conjunction with our maternal flocks in commercial conditions
- Strong focus on constitution structure and lamb growth
- Lambing between 120% and 130%
- Sire rams facial eczema testing at 2.7
- Genetically sire and dam verified