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Regulin ... increases selection pressure

How does Regulin … accelerate genetic gains?

Accelerate your genetic gains

Regulin can be of great benefit for studs and other producers who want to accelerate their genetic gains by increasing selection pressure.

Whether you’re looking for more, and better quality, rams and ewes to sell or put better sheep into your breeding flock for future years – getting more lambs from each early joining with Regulin will give you more choice about those you sell, those you keep and those you cull for the trade market.

Use with AI and hand mating

Using Regulin in your AI or hand mating program <link to AI protocols> means you can get more progeny from the desired ram/ewe combination, thus increasing your options with the offspring.

More sperm in every ejaculate

If you’re collecting semen, research from the University of Sydney <link> shows that Regulin increases the number of and motility of sperm in treated rams. Which is why we always recommend treating rams as well as ewes for natural joining and early conceptions.

Meet a farmer who accelerated genetic gains with Regulin

Chad Taylor
‘Mumblebone’
Wellington, NSW
2,400 Stud ewes & 5,000 commercial ewes

Mumblebone is one of Australia’s leading Modern Merino enterprises led by Chad and Louise Taylor, in Wellington NSW.

Regulin has beeen a standard part of the breeding program at Mumblebone for in recent years.

“We’re pretty excited to be tapping into faster genetic gains and offering them to the industry. Some of the changes we’re seeing include products like Regulin.”

A year without using Regulin and a subsequent reduction in conceptions presented Chad and his team with a smoking gun.

“Regulin is very easy to administer, and the benefits just flow from there. It’s a comfortable 20% gain. Regulin has been a wonderful benefit to this business in getting out-of-season joinings up to the same level as our in-season joinings.”

Find out more about Mumblebone at: mumblebone.com.au

Read more about Broadview at: paxtonstud.com.au

Martin Harvey
‘Broadview’
Western Flat, SA

Martin Harvey and his wife Kirsty run ‘Broadview’ which incorporates Paxton Stud (Border Leicesters, White Suffolks and Poll Dorsets) in Western Flat, South Australia.

They use Regulin because they get more lambs, but the compression in lambing is also a great benefit. In the video, Martin says:

“This year we’ve had a phenomenal lambing. We’ve never had so many lambs in such a short space of time, which for us is ideal, because when we’re selling rams we have an even drop and a really good selection of even rams for our clients."

The Harveys have also used Regulin to synchronise the joinings of their different breeds, which means their stud rams are older at sale time.

“Our rams would be at least a month older than other studs’ Border Leicester rams, and the fact these rams are only 12-14 months old when we sell them, we implant them with Regulin before we sell them and they’re cherry ripe to go out and do the maximum amount of work.”

And it doesn’t stop there – they’ve also had success with their commercial flock and in particular with ewe lambs:

“Last year we got 92% of ewe lambs in lamb – which is extremely good for ewe lambs, and this year we got 96% conception in the ewe lambs and we’ve just marked 150%.”

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