Growth, muscling, style

At Streamland we strive to produce a Suffolk sheep that is equally fit for producing fast-growing and well-muscled commercial lambs as it is for the front paddock of the lifestyle block.

Lean, muscular growth, paddock fitness and vigour, coupled with calmness and classical Suffolk character are what we aim for.

Quality Suffolk Rams - available now! (Jan 2024)

Tis the season! We have some excellent Suffolk rams for sale, ready to breed now. Ram details and pricing can be viewed online on the Sale Rams page and Rams by Pricing pages.  Or contact us using the the form below. You're welcome to come and view them at any time.

Ewes - available now! (Jan 2024)

We can put together a package of ewes and a ram that will get you started or add to your existing flock. Contact us for more details.

Our property

The photo at the top of the page is taken from high up on the ridge at the north end of the farm. The ridge extends along to the right in the photo and the boundary goes behind the large bush seen sitting at the top of a grassy paddock. It continues along the ridge and down to the Araparera River. The farm is a mix of gentle rolling to steep hill country, primarily with kikuyu and browntop grasses and clover. We run 200 breeding ewes including hoggets, plus the property carries through the breeding and sale rams and the young stock. Rams are grown out and wintered on the hill country.

​Farming Sustainably
We are only here as caretakers of the land which will long outlive us. Our goal is to improve what we can; plant trees, fence waterways, grow more pasture with minimal inputs and good management, improve pasture quality through species diversification, improve soil health and subterranean ecosystems. We follow biological farming principles as we can apply them to our farm.

Raising livestock ethically
It was written "every cow is a mother, treat her like one" - well so is every ewe! As a stud we handle our sheep a lot, and they get used to it. Gentle handling. Gentle shifting. An open gate is an invitation to new feed - we shift every mob every day to new feed. Putting a harness on a ram means a bucket with yummies and a paddock of ewes. The prevention of problems is paramount, staying on top of our health management program, avoiding issues and ensuring sheep are well fed and healthy.

Breeding livestock ethically
As stud breeders our job is to improve the animals through breeding, and not just to make them more profitable. We think it's important that lambs have a good start in life, hence why we DNA test for cold tolerance. We also think it's important that ewes can raise twins, hence why we've been milking the sheep at lambing to assess milk production, udder quality and ewe body condition, and weighing lambs at weaning to identify great ewes. We use state of the art software technology to select and mate our flock to identify the best ewes, rams and matings, to avoid inbreeding and ensure that we can do so into the future. We also think it's important to give our top stock good lives, here or elsewhere, so we let the good old ones retire and live out their days, and the younger ones find new homes as we make room for our younger replacements.