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About
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Parkdale's
Mudford Family
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Mudford
families
have been farming and grazing in the Gilgandra and Dubbo
areas in the Central West of NSW for 100 years. Don and Pam Mudford
registered the Parkdale Merino Stud in 1990 after breeding
rams for the families’ properties. They
have two sons and
two daughters. Robert
and his wife Meg live at
Birrimba Station (Enngonia
NSW - between Bourke
and Cunnamulla) where he owns
with Scott 53,000 acres conservatively
carrying 5,000 breeding ewes with surplus feed being agisted
out to cattle when seasons permit.
Robert is a certified SRS® sheep classer
and is available to
assist in developing mules-free
merino flocks. Scott manages 3,000 acres
at Weona Park
(Collie
NSW) which is used for finishing surplus sheep from Birrimba.
He also manages
the farming side of operations at
both Weona Park and Parkdale.
Tammy is Parkdale’s Stud Overseer
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she has a good eye for detail and keeps operations running
smoothly.
Sarah is in Year 12 at Dubbo
Christian School. |
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Don,
Sarah, Meg, Tammy, Scott, Pam
and Robert. |
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The
Parkdale
Property
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Parkdale
is a well balanced property of 6,000 acres
with
a mixture of open soft black soils to red clay and red loam
slopes. Shade
timber has
been left for
stock and the
property is watered
by ample ground tanks and several bores to supplement water
requirements. There
are also two
creeks that traverse the property
adding shade
timber
and watering points to the already well watered paddocks.
The
property is managed on a
rotational grazing system
where country is spelled
regularly to allow for natural
grasses and herbages to
establish. Parkdale is
located 25 minutes northwest
of the thriving city of Dubbo, 25
minutes from Narromine (the store sheep sale
centre of NSW) and 30 minutes to Collie ... making the property
ideally located.
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Parkdale's
Stud
Sheep
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Parkdale
has developed a remarkable stud flock of merino
and poll merino sheep bred on
selection
principles.
The sheep are plain-bodied and often
bare-breeched, are not
mulesed and produce deceptively high fleece weights of very
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The sires have exceptional length of body, solid
bone and fit the desired "triple
wedge" shape.
Necks are long and the faces very open. Parkdale SRS®
Merino Stud
ceased mulesing in 2004. Fertility is
rising rapidly with some mobs reaching lambing percentages
of 130% to 160%. Parkdale
has
2,000 stud
ewes with an average wool cut of 8kg per adult ewe at an
average of 19.6 micron. The Stud
ewes are shorn each 8 months.
During 2010 we will be moving to
shearing each 6 months (such is the long staple of the
Parkdale sheep). Parkdale
stud
ewes, after a natural mating at 1.5% of Parkdale sires,
had an average of 128% of lambs from ewes joined in 2009. We sell
250, both poll and horned rams
annually.
Parkdale
sheep are renowned for their long,
well aligned staple, high fertility
and fecundity.
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2008
Drop Rams |
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2008
On-Property Ram Sale |
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Parkdale's
On-Property Ram Sale |
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Parkdale’s’ 2010
On-Property Ram Sale
will be held on Wednesday
29-Sep-10. We will be offering 80 poll and horned
bare-breeched rams with an AWI breech score of 1 (the highest score from a chart of 1-5).
An
Open Day will
be held at Parkdale on Wednesday 01-Sep-10
to display our stud
ewes, sires,
progeny and sale rams. There will be discussions held on
breeding strategies to meet community expectations of
producers.
Speakers will
also update those
attending on industry developments. There will be
120 poll rams and 230 horn rams available in 2010.
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Parkdale
is a member of the |
Parkdale
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NSW
Stud Merino Breeders Association |
Australian
Association of Stud Merino Breeders |
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