DAVID UEBERGANG
LANDMARK AT HEATHCOTE, VIC
MOBILE 0428 506 828
My association with Roger and family and Charinga Merino’s, began in 1991, the year the stud was founded.
I had attended the St.Arnaud ram sale and David Morgan (Landmark Wool Department in Melbourne) suggested I look at some rams on the way home from a new stud called Charinga.
I and the clients with me were impressed with size of sheep, crimp definition and softness of wool.
We came back and purchased rams privately for the next four years at the back of Roger’s father’s woolshed, and in 1995 a nervous Roger put some rams up for public auction at Wedderburn Wool Expo.
Roger continued to auction rams at Wedderburn until he decided to hold his own On Property sale in 1996, and David Morgan, Myself and Roger lined up the sale.
Each year since then I have been privileged to be involved in selection of ram sale teams and also private selection rams.
I have bought rams for clients each year at auction and private selection, and have seen these sheep improve and evolve in to a modern day merino with good frame and constitution, straighter neck and plainer body and breech, whiter wool with defined crimp, while still retaining heavy wool cutting ability.
I purchase rams and class flocks from north of Deniliquin (12” rainfall) to
Pyalong/Kilmore (27” rainfall) area and have found rams suitable for these areas, and in between, available at Charinga.
Two client’s flocks I class with their Charinga blood teams recently had success at Elmore Merinos to Match Wether trial, at the Field Days site against stiff competition.
In 1999, Roger, Donna and Lendon started a White Suffolk Stud, and offered them for sale after the Merino auction.
We have purchased these rams atauction and privately and have found them
ideal to put over merino ewes, as they left long bodied lambs with clear open faces and clean around the points. We find the rams to be vigorous workers, with the ability to cover a lot of ewes.
Some clients retain their young merino ewes (which generally are smaller) to put to white Suffolk rams, and if finer shouldered rams are put over them they are lambing easily.
I can only say that my experience with Charinga Merinos and White Suffolks has been a good one.

STUART W HODGSON OAM
MERINO SPECIALIST
LANDMARK AUSTRALIA
MOBILE 0427 908 831
“I have purchased Charinga rams on behalf of my clients for a period of 13 years, these sheep have gone into a variety of climatic and pastoral conditions.
I had been attracted to the Charinga bloodline for it’s ability to not only cut optimum wool weights of highly crimped stylish wools that process so well, but also give a desirable body shape, these two important genetic body traits are of paramount importance to the future of our merino industry and coupled together they provide an animal of dual purpose suitability.
I have been impressed with the genetic improvement Charinga sires have delivered and feel they are an important building block in the direction our industry must take.”

Gilbert Cochrane
Axedale, Victoria (03) 5439 7490
“This year will mark our 17th year on the Charinga bloodline. I am proud to have been associated with Roger and Donna, and their family members over this time. During this time a lot of different influences have impacted on the merino industry, a lot of new breeding technology adopted, and a lower than desired wool price.
Fortunately Charinga sheep remain as productive as ever. Roger always kept commercial returns for his clients as a focus in his breeding programs.
Roger always gives a very honest assessment of our sheep, enabling us to select rams that will enhance the long term aims of our breeding program.
Long stapled, heavy, cutting, deeply crimped very nourished wool, on a big easy framed animal, is Charinga’s trade
mark, giving us the opportunities for a return from either wool or meat.
Ease of lambing is a hidden bonus.
The foresight to begin a White Suffolk stud reflects his client’s needs for a mix of merino and prime lamb in their operations. In the current Merinos to Match bloodline trial at Elmore site, Charinga sheep lead the way for body and fleece weights, while being average for micron.”

STEPHEN & MARY SATTERTHWAITE
MULLER STATION , NEW ZEALAND
0011 64 3 5757044
We imported two Charinga rams in 2005 and single sire mated each to 120 selected ewes. The resulting two generations of progeny have been outstanding, particularly their predictability and evenness of type.
Wool quality, especially fibre alignment and handle, superbly suit our wool contracts with the NZ Merino Co.
85% of the 2006 born females have been retained to stud (classed by Stuart Hodgson) and we were so impressed with their brothers that we culled our entire ram battery and mated all our commercial ewes, this autumn, with exclusively Charinga sired 2 year old rams.

Glen Rubie
Lachlan Merinos, Forbes NSW (02) 6857 2118
We've been breeding our own rams through AI for 15 years and have continually been looking during this time throughout NSW and Victoria for an impact type of sheep to complement our flock. We have found that Charinga sheep are what we've been searching for with great combination of frame, softness, cut and lustre, having a very positive overall impact on our flock.
In 2003, at the Australioan National Sheep Show, Dubbo, we recieved 1st and 3rd in the medium wool section and 1st in the strong wool section (all 19.1 micron and under), showing the real impact that Charinga's sheep have made so far on the lachlan Merinos.
we fell priveleged that Roger has shared his knowledge and immeasurable breeding skills with us, helping to direct us into the future. We have no hesitation in recommending Charinga sheep and Roger's honest and generous advice.

Doug & Val Best
Goodnight, NSW (03) 5038 2260
The impact that Charinga has had on our sheep and micron has been very exciting. Our association with Charinga began in 1997 with the artificial indsemination of approximately 80 ewes with semen from "MUNCHY". In his progeny we immediately saw sheep with great bone and big frames that carried a lot of wool.
As well as Munchy we have since used DOC 005, SOV 001 as well as DAVID Purple 280, all of which have been impact sires, each making a postitive contribution to our ewe base. It has been very satisfying to watch soft bundly, deep, well-defined crimpy wool evolve in out flock. Since the Charinga influence, our sheep have been able to hold the microns, on a predominantly sub-clover pasture base. Interestingly, our ram group has also been able to hold and often decreased their micron with age.
We are extremely pleased with the direction that Charinga is taking our sheep

CLAUDETTE & GERALD WOODHOUSE
MYACK MERINO STUD, FOUNDED 1934,
FLOCK NO: 1291, TARCUTTA .N.S.W.
PHONE (02) 6928 7156
After the wool crash of the 1990’s we knew we had to find the genetics that would increase the frame and wool cut of our fine wool sheep to meet our clients new demands for dual-purpose merinos, as they could no longer rely on their wool cheque. We were even prepared to accept an increase in micron to achieve this end. In 1998 we attended a “Charinga” field day and discovered the genetics we had spent 10 years searching for. We were careful at first, using a number of “Charinga” AI sires under Roger’s honest, skilled and steadfast classing advise. It was no mean feat to transfer these sheep to a normally high rainfall area of 28 inches but we couldn’t be happier with the resulting progeny and have to date purchased two stud rams and continued to use AI sires, they have performed in both very wet conditions and the worst drought years in history. The two stud sires that we purchased actually decreased in micron from around 20 micron on sale day, to a consistent 16.4 to 17 micron and our oldest stud ram is now 9 years old and still going strong (fine). The results in our stud ewes from 1999 to 2006 speak for themselves; our micron has decreased from 19.8 to 17.4, our wool cut has
increased from an average 5 kg to 6.6kg. All this on a much larger framed and clean faced sheep that
produce super soft wool with great lustre and a deep crimp. We believe that “Charinga” merinos have the genetics we were searching for and have proven themselves in our flock with all the above qualities and confidently recommend them to other producers.

DAVID MORGAN
SHEEP AND WOOL CONSULTANT
MOBILE 0408 178 498
“Charinga bloodlines are being used extensively through out Australia. I can only comment on the
clients around Stawell, St.Arnaud and Woodside,
Victoria who use these rams with remarkable success.
Large framed sheep, with a long staple or deep
crimping white wool and cuts up to 9 kg– highly Productive.
It is imperative today to produce quantity and quality. There are no better sheep for this
purpose than Charinga bloodlines.
With mutton and live export prices so good, the top merino wether value is over $100 per head.
It interests me that this spring there are very good contract prices for merino lambs, but they need to be large framed and heavy.”

Wilcox Classing & Management
Jim Wilcox, Swan Hill, VIC, Mob: 0428 500 005
DD Kaylock & Co of Moulamein NSW started their association with Charinga buying rams 5 years ago. The flock was 23.5 to 24 mic and getting stronger. Peter Kaylock & Shaun Collins approached me and asked what they should do to turn this strong wool slide around. After classing the ewes for the first time I suggested the Charinga Stud. We were looking for free growing, stylish (crimpy) lustrous wools on large frame sheep that would survive the harsh times. The Charinga rams certainly fitted this criteria. We have purchased rams from the Charinga sale and also at private selection in the $1,000 to $2,000 price range. In the last 3 years in particular we have reduced the adult sheep micron from 23.5 to 21.5 and increased the fleece weight by ½ a kilo. We are also getting high lambing percentages ( 90 to 100%).

JULIANNE BOAK
AGRI-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CONSULTANT,
MOBILE 0438 416 176.
“The Polkinghorne’s are passionate about their sheep, their clients, the wool industry and the business of
farming. The industry has aspired to breeding a large framed dual purpose merino sheep that maintains both wool quality & cut.
The Polkinghorne Group can be congratulated for having achieved to breed such a sheep.
Over many years they have utilized their skills in sheep breeding/classing and continually sought out new
technologies in genetics to breed the dual purpose
merino sheep suited to most grazing areas in Australia and overseas countries such as New Zealand, South
Africa and Argentina.
The Charinga and Banavie ‘brand’ sheep continue to produce soft handling, deep crimping, high lustrous wools sought out by wool industry manufacturers.
Wool industry manufacturers will seek out
opportunities to purchase these ‘branded’ wools now and into the future at a premium price because they recognize that these wools have excellent spinning qualities with low to nil wastage.
The wool industry will also need to continue to revitalize consumer awareness of wool. This in turn will assist in increasing consumer demand for high quality fashionable wool garments in the very competitive world of fashion.”