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O’Brien Dohne Merino and Poll Merino Annual Sale

Thursday, 31 July 2025

Inspection from 10.00am, Auction 1.00pm at Wudinna Show Grounds

2025 Sale Team

Download 2025 Sale Team Excel Spreadsheet with details of:

Growth/Weight traits
Wool traits
Carcase and Eating Quality traits
Reproduction traits
Health and welfare traits
Indexes

2025 O’Brien Sale Team Download

Inspection of Sale Teams invited, just get in touch.

O’Brien Poll Merino’s offer to help with flock profile testing

A flock profile testing involves DNA testing 20 randomly selected lambs and will give you an ASVB value on numerous traits, that will enable you to establish what traits in your flock need improving and what are your good traits

Click here for a detailed explanation of flock profile testing.

Sale Team details from Flock Profile and Genetics Day, download the Excel Spreadsheet

O’Brien Flock Profile and Genetics Day – Excel Download

Get in touch to find out more.

Darren and crowd at Flock Profiling and Genetics Day with Nathan Scott, Achieve Ag.

About us

O’Brien Dohne Merino and O’Brien Poll Merino studs are run by Darren O’Brien and Jodie Reseigh-O’Brien situated in the Kyancutta district of Eyre Peninsula, SA. Kyancutta is renowned for its hot and dry summers with this in mind we breed sheep with excellent nourishment and staple length. We have a stud ewe flock numbering approximately 1100 adult ewes across the O’Brien Poll Merino and Dohne studs.

O’Brien Dohne Merino compared on Merino Select

To accurately compare what our Dohnes offer compared to our Poll Merino and all other Merinos in the Merino Select database, we have prepared a Excel® spreadsheet and a printable pdf version. Our sale team and ewes in our mob have been genomic tested, therefore carcass and eating traits for the Dohne Sale Team are documented, a first for the Dohne breed.

It is our belief (and not the Dohne Association) that the Dohne breed need to be compared to Merinos, so we can further improve what Dohne’s are good at and work on where they aren’t. Note some people may disagree with our view.

Using our new Flock code 609392, for Dohne will enable the data we have available from full genomic testing to be used.