Sheep related testimonials...
Peter Black
Blackdale Texel Stud, Southland
"Twin reared lambs grazing only AberDart pasture, averaged 400
grams a day for three months from lambing to weaning at a stocking
rate of 17 ewes with twins to the hectare, and were finished prior
to Christmas at 40 kg."
Kerry Boon
Mawaro, South Canterbury
"The weaned lambs were weighed after 22 days and had averaged
400 grams a day liveweight gain. The AberDart certainly speeded
them up. I was amazed and phoned the lamb drafter to get him in
earlier. Typically the steers can make 1.5kg a day but grew an
extra half kilo when the AberDart was at its best."
David Bielski
Mt Linton Station, Southland
"It's an awesome ryegrass. It seems to be the silver bullet for
us as far as finishing lambs (that averaged 411g/day on AberMagic
and 412 g/day on AberDart). It went into 400ha last summer and we
plan to sow more each year."
Andrew Young
Tapanui, West Otago
"AberDart is a grass you can rely on. It's taking the pressure
off (by) knowing we can finish lambs earlier. They just go for it.
I had the drafter in every week last summer to take out the tops.
They put on 430-450 grams a day on AberDart and AberMagic. They
stay clean, whether its fresh grass or not."
Max Miller
South Otago
"We are excited about this grass, the lambs boomed last season.
It was while weaning and drafting lambs I watched them wander down
the race and crowd into an already grazed AberDart paddock despite
the gates to six other paddocks being open. The lambs on the
AberDart were also cleaner."
Scott McKenzie
South Otago
"We can't leave the gates open because stock will just hover
around a grazed AberDart paddock. It's fattened lambs and is strip
grazed during winter and recovered well. The proof is in the
eating, we see lambs preferring to eat AberDart and leave clover
behind."
Hamish Mackenzie
South Canterbury
"I couldn't believe the amount of feed we have had off that
AberDart paddock. I thought it might blow itself out because it's
so vigorous."
Stephen Taylor
Fairlie
"The key is animal performance. A lot of grasses will grow like
hell but it's what the animals are doing on them. We got complaints
in the tailing pen when we came to tailing a mob off AberDart
because they were way heavier than the lambs off any other
paddock."
