Tucker's Dorper in Willaura North | Agricultural service

Tucker's Dorper

Locality: Willaura North

Phone: +61 427 547 636

Address: 945 Moyston Willaura Rd 3379 Willaura North, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.rhyniepastoral.com.au

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25.01.2022 Some black and white tag ewes waiting patiently for the preg scanner today.

25.01.2022 This mob of late joined ewes will be preg scanned on Monday and any drys will be for sale. They are all ages up to 5 but mainly on the younger end. Quality of the video is not great but can take photos and DM them to anyone interested, along with pricing info on Monday.

24.01.2022 We are sadly losing our trusty employee Gary who is returning to the mother country early next year! Gary has been a wonderful person to work with over the last couple of years and his animal husbandry skills have been second to none. We are therefore just beginning our search for a Farmhand for 3-4 days per week on our mixed farming operation at Willaura North. We are currently running approximately 3000 Dorper ewes plus some mixed cropping. Applicant prerequisites:... 1. Interest in regenerative agriculture principles. 2. Livestock and fencing experience. 3. Self motivated with a can doattitude. 4. Ability to work independently and in a team. Salary package and terms of employment to be negotiated with the successful candidate. Please contact Jack Tucker on 0427 547 636 or [email protected] for more information. Feel free to share this post with anyone that might be interested. For more details about our business you can visit www.rhyniepastoral.com.au

24.01.2022 Available to good, responsible home only: Twin orphaned lambs, ewe and a ram. Must be picked up today from Maroona. First in best dressed, please phone or text Jack 0427547636. (Gary doesnt come with the lambs...!)

23.01.2022 Fat, happy Dorpers enjoying the better weather conditions!

20.01.2022 3 weeks into lambing and things are getting hectic in the paddocks!

20.01.2022 Weighing wether lambs with Nev Routley from DMD Stawell on Friday. We will be sorting up their sisters next week ready for Auctions plus the following Tuesday.

19.01.2022 Some fresh Monday morning grass for these ewes and lambs!

18.01.2022 Wether lambs weaned last week having a ball in the lush Spring pasture this evening!

18.01.2022 Including our lambs

16.01.2022 You don’t see this everyday! Triplets are common, quads very occasionally, but six is a whole new level!

15.01.2022 Perfect lambing conditions at the moment. This ewe looks like she could still have another couple inside!

14.01.2022 Jack has just completed a large direct seeding project to provide shelter for our Dorper’s and help with increasing biodiversity across our property. The areas he has focused on link in with existing wildlife corridors. The seed mix contains 4 Eucalypt, 3 Acacia, 2 Callistemon, 2 Melaleuca and 1 Allocasuarina species. Let’s hope this seasons conditions lead to a great result.

13.01.2022 Here at Tuckers Dorper we undertake rigorous testing of our product daily, sometimes twice daily if the weather is good! Here is our chief tester Johnny, hes still hard at it even though its Saturday evening. Johnny gives this batch of chops 10/10!

13.01.2022 Mustering Dorper ewes and lambs for marking can have its challenges...

12.01.2022 Our Dorper ewes are loving this beautiful weather leading up to our lambing season which kicks off on the 1st June

12.01.2022 70 mixed age ewes just preg scanned and assessed for AuctionsPlus. They are an excellent line of ewes 100% in lamb, at an overall percentage of 175%, due to start lambing early August. Average weight 78kg they could run on the smell of an oily rag until lambing. Full details will be available on AuctionsPlus in the next couple of days which we will share here.

11.01.2022 We have exciting news! If you loved purchasing our Tuckers Dorper Lamb in the past, you can now buy it through the PDLmarketplace! Just head to https://www.pdlmarketplace.com.au click on buy lamb, enter your postcode, create an account and select our farm! ... The PDLmarketplace is a new digital shop that lets Prime Dorper Lamb farmers, like us, sell lamb directly to you. It lets us share our story and our customers get to know us and how we farm before you purchase, something that means a lot to us. So, if youd love to enjoy our lamb again, just visit the marketplace and you can!

11.01.2022 A great trip to the Amarula on property sale, and success with the purchase of the 3 rams we were after. Thank you very much Lorroi Kirkby and Justin Kirkby! Now for the leisurely 1345km tootle home down the Newell.

11.01.2022 King of the kids One of our rams grazing with a handful of lambs on a moody summers day!

11.01.2022 Lambs are hitting the ground thick and fast!

10.01.2022 First in best dressed! 1 Orphaned lamb available. Need gone this arvo.

09.01.2022 We posted last month that Australian Soil Management had successfully registered a soil carbon project on our behalf with the Australian Clean Energy Regulator. Here is a case study that provides more detail for those of you interested in the process of registering a soil carbon project and why we’ve personally decided to go down this path https://www.rhyniepastoral.com.au/friends-partners

08.01.2022 First draft of June drop lambs heading for the truck!

08.01.2022 5 1/2 month old ewes lambs going onto fresh grass today- what a Spring!!

08.01.2022 Happy New Year to all our followers As we enter a new decade and with the recent expansion of our Dorper enterprise we are thrilled to now have our lamb available to purchase through the PDL Marketplace The PDL Marketplace aims to transform the relationship between consumers and Australian farmers. They connect consumers directly with Australian Dorper producers, providing a way to make better choices which support farmers, ethical animal handling and the environment. Fo...r more info check out their website http://shop.pdlmarketplace.com.au/ #meatsheep #knowyourfarmer #thankafarmer #tuckersdorper #ethicalfarmers #regenerativefarmers #australianag #farmingforfuturegenerations #landcustodians #pdlmarketplace #grampiansregion #victoria See more

07.01.2022 Playtime in the paddock

07.01.2022 Resting in the shade on a lovely autumn day here in the Grampians region. These Dorper ewes were recently joined and will lamb in June. At the moment they are enjoying being on a lupin stubble.

07.01.2022 The extremely talented Janette Lucas www.janettelucas.com recently created a logo for our business and we couldnt be happier with the result. Combining production with conservation is an important part of our business model and we think Janette has captured this beautifully by incorporating our main enterprise, Dorper sheep, with the biodiversity that we are nurturing across our property. Thank you Janette.

07.01.2022 Its reassuring when we get cold snaps like this knowing our sheep have plenty of trees to seek shelter under! Its days like today that our tree planting efforts definitely pay dividends! Stay warm everyone

06.01.2022 Its #foodiefriday! Enjoy your weekend everyone

06.01.2022 Feeding the rams in these chilly conditions!

06.01.2022 Ewes and lambs on rotation in the early morning sun today before the weather turned!

05.01.2022 We have the remainder of our 2019 ewe lambs on AuctionsPlus on Tuesday. They are a good line of ewes with the majority classed out by the previous buyer simply because their colouring isnt quite right.

05.01.2022 Why would you buy a fancy bale un-roller with all this free labour available?? #dadimitchy

05.01.2022 We have got pups!.... Pure Kelpie, both parents natural heading dogs and solid in the yards. Father a good backer. If you would like to know more about them please get in touch. (Mother in pic)

04.01.2022 Alexia Mitchell is a very talented third-year Media and Communications (Sports Journalism) student at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Melbourne. She recently made contact with us about producing a film and an article featuring the Shepherds Hut Sanctuary and wind turbines located on our property for an assignment she needed to do. When we established the sanctuary one of our initial goals was to share it with the community so that it could be used to contribute towards ec...ological research and ecological education of people who come into contact with the sanctuary. For this reason we welcomed Lexis request wholeheartedly and think she has done a great job. We hope you enjoy learning a little more about the Sanctuary, how we incorporate our Dorper enterprise into the overall management of this area and the benefits we are seeing since its establishment in 2016. You can follow Alexia on Twitter @lexilegs99 with Lexi Mitchell.

04.01.2022 Dorpers in the headlights at dawn this morning with Mt Good Morning Bill in the background.

03.01.2022 Here are some ewes and their summer boyfriends moving onto fresh grass with the assistance of Bob the kelpie (who cant be seen...)

03.01.2022 Some very content ewes enjoying the shade while they munch on one of our multi species perennial pastures that was sown earlier this year. #increasingdiversity #soilhealth

03.01.2022 Happy Dorpers enjoying some fresh grass!

03.01.2022 These ewes and lambs are loving the fabulous spring growthIt was a beautiful evening to be out moving them onto new pasture.

02.01.2022 Here is the head shepherd putting flock rams out with the ewes today. We have gone two weeks earlier than last year, aiming for a mid May lambing.

01.01.2022 Have a look how protective this ewe is, chasing the ravens away and then pushing her lambs the other way. I watched this for 15 mins - at one stage there was 6 ravens, but without intervention from me they got the message and left! Very pleasing! (Apologies for the poor quality, long distance phone vid...)

01.01.2022 As some of you are probably aware, we recently purchased all Norm and Heather Summervilles The Croft Dorpers as they are retiring. We thank them very much for the opportunity, and will continue with with the goals of high productivity and easy care, through focusing on fertility and lambing ease, shedding and conformation (especially feet). The main aim of this move is to fast track the improvement of our own genetics, but given that we have taken on the entire 2019 drop of ram lambs we will have some rams for sale later in the year.

01.01.2022 Very excited to receive our first ever pack of Mt Moriac Beef. Really looking forward to trying it#grassfedbeef #surfcoasthinterland #homedeliveryacrossvictoria #paddocktoplateisthebest

01.01.2022 UPDATE Since our recent post letting you know our lamb can now be purchased through the PDL Marketplace we have had a couple of delivery queries. In these early days there will, unfortunately, be regional areas where the home delivery service is not currently available. If you enter your postcode on the PDLmarketplace website and find this situation applies to you please be sure to still enter your contact details and you will be informed if and when home delivery is avail...able to your location. Thanks for your patience https://www.pdlmarketplace.com.au/faq

01.01.2022 Recently weaned ewe lambs on the move between showers today.

01.01.2022 Tidy little line of Dorper Ewe Lambs to be sold on Auctions Plus next Tuesday in the National Sheep Sale. Contact Nev Routley for further information