Gullendah Dohne Stud

Gullendah Pastoral Co. was established in 1908 by the Hughes family in Baldry, Central Western New South Wales. The company is a commercially-focused business run over 4800 hectares, where there is an emphasis on sustainable agriculture, animal welfare, productivity and innovation. The animals we produce are bred to perform in the extremes of the Australian environment.

Gullendah Pastoral Co. owns and manages three sheep studs - Gullendah Dohne Stud, and Gullendah Merino and Poll Merino Studs.

Each year we sell over 400 rams to five states around Australia, with genetics also going to New Zealand and South America. Rams can be purchased at our annual On-Property Ram Sale each September and grade rams are available for sale all year round.

The scale of Gullendah's commercial sheep operation has increased in recent years, with the aggregation of two additional adjoining properties. This has enabled us to benchmark our studs, which offers us greater assurance of providing the best quality sheep that are proven in a strict commercial environment.

Dohnes

Established in 2001, Gullendah Dohne Stud has been at the forefront of the Dohne breed in Australia. The Gullendah bloodline is renowned for a dual-purpose sheep that is specifically bred for Australian climatic conditions. Through a carefully considered breeding program and excellent management practices, Gullendah sets the standard in high-quality stud and commercial sheep.

Extensive Embryo Transfer and Artificial Insemination programs from 2003 to 2008 enabled a diversification of genetics. In recent years, stud ewes purchased from Potari Stud and Hamilton Run in South Australia, have allowed for further diversity of the genetic pool.

Gullendah has new genetics coming through every year from our foundation flock, which has been bred up from our Stud merino ewe base. This has provided the Stud with a very large genetic pool and a completely different genetic base to any other Dohne stud in the country.

Gullendah sells more than 300 Dohne rams every year to five states across Australia, from high rainfall areas to pastoral zones.