Kereru Station principal Bob Steed said the stud sire was bought by Ngaputahi Station, operated by Angus Cameron and Rod McCaughan in the Pohangina Valley.
It’s the second Kereru-bred ram bought by the Manawatu pair in recent years following success with the progeny from the first ram.
Bob Steed and wife Anne, and their daughter and son in law Helen and Rhys Dackers, run Kereru stud at Tangiteroria, between Whangarei and Dargaville, and have been breeding Romneys for 40 years.
The sale ram had a very high index for maternal worth, plus disease factors (+FE, +FEC), which put him in the top 5% in New Zealand.
Kereru is a member of Advanced Romney Designer Genetics (ARDG), a group of sheep studs that are industry leaders for production, facial eczema and worm faecal egg counts.
In recent years ARDG rams have been sought-after by top studs in the North Island to enhance their facial eczema tolerance.
Kereru Station sells Romney rams all over the North Island and to the top of the South Island, and the rams are known to shift well and perform to a high standard.
