What We Do

At Three Oaks we produce 'easy doing' sheep with the ability to produce and perform on grass - a vital economic trait.

Three Oaks Southdown Stud is a stud stock and prime lamb sire producing enterprise.

We produce rams with a strong commercial focus. With the use of Genemarker technology for cold tolerance and diligent performance recording, we can assure that our very best has been done to produce quality sires for domestic lamb production.

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Our Breeding Objectives

Lambing

• Easy lambing over all ewes
• Cold tolerance
  
• Vigorous, strong, survivability
  

Finishing

• Rapid growth rates
  
• Early maturity (18-24kg trade lambs)
  
• Easy doing grass converters
  

Marketability

• Exceptional eating quality
  
• Red meat yield and intramuscular marbling
• Carcass uniformity
• Tight, sappy skins
  

Our History

We started as a commercial prime lamb operation and then transitioned to running a stud as the demand grew for our Southdown rams. In the early days we used our stud sires over commercial ewes to trace lambs from birth to plate. This allowed us to determine the superior sires for ease of lambing, survival, growth, finish, meat yield and intramuscular marbling.

In 2020 we were fortunate enough to purchase the neighbours' property which allowed us to expand our stud operation and run an additional 800 commercial ewes.