Our Flock History

The flock was first established in 1978 on the Monaro by Anna’s father Jock Litchfield who, in conjunction with the University of NSW, started crossbreeding Suffolks and Dorsets and line breeding the '“whitest” progeny.

Earlier breeding trials had indicated that the Suffolk breed produced fast growing, well muscled lambs, but these were penalised in the market because of their black fibres.

Jock received the first three ewes released from the Hay research station, and for the next few years, in conjunction with a small but growing number of interested producers, received a ram in return for his best three rams.

In 1984 the nucleus flock from the University of NSW was sold to PLG (Prime Lamb Genetics), a group of 35 ram breeders who ran the flock at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, NSW, of which Jock was a part of. This group had a breeding program that accessed the top genetics, with the aim of breeding modern, profit-making sires for commercial lamb production.

In 1996 we purchased the stud from Jock and for the past 26 years have been striving to produce ram lambs with traits that are economically important for a successful prime lamb production.

Since the stud has been at Bullaworrie, we have sourced some of the best White Suffolk genetics from across Australia, selecting for early maturity, growth rate, eye muscle size and carcass conformation.