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Cashdown Goats Partnership
Cashdown Goats Partnership operates a grazinig enterprise in Western Victoria. We run both Cashmere Goats and Easy Care Meat sheep (Purebred and Crossbred Dorpers). It is our experience that the sheep and the goats make an ideal livestock mix. They compliment each other in many ways, yet the infrastructure required to run each type of livestock is similiar.
It is our aim to breed top quality stock in all of our enterprises.
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CashmeresWe purchased our first cashmeres in 1987 and have been using selective breeding techniques since that time to develop the Australian Cashmere Goat. Our progress over the years has been impressive and we are now recognised as one of the the leading breeders of the Australian Cashmere. Over the past few years we have excelled in both subjective (showing) and objective (ACGA National Fleece Competition) industry competitions. |
Easy Care Meat Sheep
We use meat sheep to balance pasture use; cashmeres prefer coarser grasses and woody weeds to green clover.The breeds we use shed their wool so are low maintenance animals. There is no shearing, crutching or mulesing required. Flystrike is not a problem.
Dorper SheepThe Dorper is a meat sheep breed developed in South Africa. They are a robust, hardy breed suited to a large variety of environments. Dorper lambs are vigourous and fast growing. Only fairly new to Australia, these sheep are rapidly gaining in popularity, due to their ability to do well even under adverse conditions. They have come into their own throughout the drought affected areas of Australia, as they have continued to do well in conditions where it had been thought impossible to turn off a prime lamb. |
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Dorper CrossesWe have used our stud Wiltshire Horn ewes as foundation stock for a Dorper crossbreebing program. All crossbred ewes are joined to a purebred Dorper Ram. The Dorper Cross lambs are fast growing, solid animals. The males are sought after by the meat buyers, while the females are sought by people wanting to breed low maintenance meat sheep. The demand for these animals is continually growing as more and more people learn about them.
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