At ‘Kooroogong’ on the Southern Slopes of NSW Vic Fowler and her dad John run a mixed farm, with Prime lamb as a main focus. Crops are grown in rotation with lucerne, and beef cattle graze the natural pastures. Vic joins 4,000 first cross ewes (Border Leicester x Merino) to Poll Dorset rams in November, December and February.
The early joining program enables them to optimise the use of their feed crops when native pasture growth is slow. It also enables them to turn off some early lambs for sale before everyone else gets to market.
Vic says: “With Regulin, we get many more twinners, much less dries, a shorter lambing and a tighter weaning… and the lambs definitely have more vigour.”