Our Terminal rams reliably produce prime lambs that are turned off with excellent yield at 5 months, With minimum effort and maximum return. The UltraWhite breed are the perfect maternal shedding sheep breed. They have great reproductive traits as well as a high yielding carcass. Our Multi Purpose Merinos are bred with a focus on reproduction traits with high Muscle and Fat creating a easy care Me
rino, with a great carcass. Stokes Bay Genetics aims to be a very advanced modern stud utilizing all new technologies. We are experencied in using electronic tags for data collection, full pedigree recording, automatic weighing & drafting. All our Poll Dorsets have been DNA tested using the latest technolagy from Pfizer Animal Gentics to analyse pedigree and to improve accuracy of ASBVs
Lambplan has been a huge change for the sheep industry allowing producers to bench mark the rams they are buying against other studs and breeds. Through the use of Australian breeding values clients gain much more confidence that the rams they buy will breed lambs they want. Stokes Bay Genetics is a seed stock stud on the North Coast of Kangaroo Island operated by Michael & Sarah Stanton. The Stud has a strong history dating back to 1947. Stokes Bay Genetics produce Poll Dorset, UltraWhite and Poll Merino rams. The 2022 UltraWhite sale average price of $3906, achieved a record of highest on property ram sale average across South Australia. Poll Dorsets are the perfect Terminal ram over various breeds with Low Birth Weight, High Growth, High Fat, High Muscle, High Worm resilience and improved eating quality. UltraWhites are the full package shedding breed proving to be excellent maternal or terminal rams, producing ewes with extremely good shedding, milking and mothering instincts. The UltraWhites have the HF plus genes which is one of the GDF9 Fertility genes adding 50% more lambs with no downsides. UltraWhites have been used extremely well over various crosses with excellent hybrid vigour, Low Birth Weight, High Fat, Extreme Muscling and Improved Worm resilience. Stokes Bay Genetics Multi Purpose Poll Merinos have a focus on carcase with High Fat, High Muscle, High Growth, Long Staple Length, High Worm resilience and Low Dag. These traits contribute to a highly fertile modern merino not requiring mulseing. The On Property Ram Sale is in October each year. All Rams have Sheep Genetics ASBVs and full Genomics DNA testing. Stokes Bay Genetics pride themselves as being at the forefront of sheep genetics to produce exceptional quality animals for their clients.