History

The Terrick West Stud was founded in 1932 and over many years was based on Bundemar and Haddon Rig blood. The poll stud was founded on Poll Boonoke blood in the early 1950’s. In 1980 the horn stud was dispersed with the best ewes taken into the poll stud.

At this time we decided to concentrate our efforts on breeding a large frame poll merino with high quality fine/medium wool. With very few poll sires of this type available we set about to try and breed this animal. Two rams were purchased from Moorundie Park in South Australia during the early 1980s. One of theses rams bred very well adding great size and bulk to our sheep.

In 1989 we purchased a fine wool ram at the Roseville Park Poll Stud dispersal and a second poll ram 3 years later. This ram was bred in the horn special stud at Roseville Park but was polled and he has proved to be an outstanding success at Terrick West.
In recent years some semen from Wallaloo Park and a share in a Merryville Poll ram has been added with great effect.

As most of our clients join some of their ewes to border leisters or terminal sires it is important to produce large frame sheep with a plain body and a bulky good crimped wool testing 19-20 micron.
With the concentration on soft handling crimpy wools with high comfort factors the micron of our sheep continues to fall with many young sires now in the 18 to 19 micron range pushing over 100kg by the time they cut their 2 teeth.

The long term flock micron has been falling while wool cuts and body weights have increased at the same time. The past 3 years have seen the micron average at 19.5 with grown sheep wool cut average over 8kgs.
Over the last few years Terrick West has had good show and sale success as both stud and specially selected rams have been sold all over Australia. This shows that there is strong demand for the type of sheep we are breeding. Several Terrick West clients have achieved very good prices for wether lambs over the hooks and high prices for surplus ewes.