Bundara Downs White Suffolks

BUNDARA DOWNS
WHITE SUFFOLKS, SUFFOLKS, POLL DORSETS & ULTRAWHITES

Steve, Ros, Greg and Selena Funke welcome you to the Bundara Downs website, where we are proud to provide information for prime lamb producers to maximize efficiency and optimize profit.

Bundara Downs offers a full range of services to ram buyers including annual on-property sales in September, January, paddock sales of flock rams, semen sales from our elite sire battery and our biennial mated ewe sale.

We commenced stud breeding in 1993 and use tried and true visual assessment along with the latest technology in Lambplan and scanning. We also participate in the ground-breaking Superwhite and Meat Elite groups that further accelerate genetic improvement.

You’ll find us at Hamilton Sheepvention, Adelaide Royal and Bendigo Show & Sale, you are welcome to view our sheep there or on-property.

White Suffolk Stud

The Bundara Downs White Suffolk stud was founded in 1993 with the purchase of elite genetics from highly successful studs within Australia. From this a solid foundation, we are producing high quality soundly structured rams that are making a positive impact on the prime lamb industry. To do this we evaluate our stock utilising visual assessments as well as Lambplan, weighing of lambs at birth and weaning, measuring muscle and fat depth at 9 months. The Lambplan data is compared across studs within Australia to give us a comparison of our performance, not just within our stud.

Acquisition of leading sires has enhanced our excellent muscling and growth without restricting our genetic pool, allowing us to produce rams with varied traits to suit different production systems of our clients. In 2011 Bundara Downs joined in the Superwhites  group to further increase genetic gain within the stud through access of high performing sires. As of 2012 the whole White Suffolk stud has been DNA tested free of Hypotrichosis with all future progeny being clean of the gene.