JUDGE’S PURCHASE
Record-Priced Merino Ram
The Australian Merino judge at this week’s Royal Show (Mr L. M. Rayner) once paid a world record price for a Merino ram. He gave 12,500 guineas for a Collinsville ram at Adelaide in 1962, and said yesterday that the record still stood.
The ram, which died a few months ago, had proved a very cheap sheep, said Mr Rayner. He had left nearly 1800 lambs, about 60 per cent of them as a result of artificial Insemination.
Most of the big studs in Australia used artificial insemination. More use of top rams was possible but at the same time it was a method that had to be treated with care, as it was easy to spread faults.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31215, 12 November 1966, Page 14
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