Firgrove Poll Merino Stud - Dunkeld, Victoria

Ram Sale

Thursday
October 16, 2025

Auction 1pm Sharp
48 Rams + Private Grade Available
Inspections from 10am
Lunch Provided

Join us On-Property, Thursday 16th October, 1pm for our Mini Auction. Inspections from 10am or by appointment. Lunch provided from 12pm.

Offering rams with multiple trait-leading ASBVs, run under a no foot trimming, unmulesed, May-shorn management system.

Strong, profitable genetics for today’s merino enterprise.

Sale Team Spreadsheet

Sheep Genetics

2025 Sale Team ASBV Averages

About Us

JOSEPH SUTHERLAND

JOHN SUTHERLAND

Firgrove Merino Stud Rams in paddock with Grampians mountains in background

Balanced

We aim to breed a balanced merino, where muscle and fat provide the engine to support a productive, stylish white fleece on a fast growing, early maturing deep body. Our genetics target and capture the markets of lamb, mutton, surplus sheep, (through fertility), and wool.

Resilience

Resilience is bred into our sheep through carcass traits along with worm resistance to get them through the tougher periods and aid in lamb and weaner survival. Scoring breech wrinkle, breech cover and dag has allowed us to cease mulesing.

Environment

With the southern end of the Grampians in South West Victoria as a backdrop, Firgrove is about an hours drive up from the coast and an hour in from the South Australian border and has an “average” rainfall of 630mm. The wool has to stand up to long wet periods, displaying white and fleece rot free. Our rams perform well when they go to drier climates in the north as well as wetter environments in the south.

ASBV's

We use ASBV’s, along with rigid visual classing and a full pedigree to select animals fitting these criteria.

Sheep Genetics data quality score of 89.1 for Firgove Poll Merino

Guarantee

Our rams are reared in the paddock and we back them to perform in the paddock.

Our History

Merino Stud - 42 years

On Property Ram Sales - 22

Poll Merino Stud - 19 years

Guidair Vaccinated - 18 years

ASBV - 9 years