Medlicott
Southdowns 15.January.2005 This year has already been a busy one of visitors to the farm, with Todd Anderson and family staying before the Canterbury Ram Fair, as well as our many flock ram clients visiting, and Graeme Hooper and his daughter Jane visiting from the Clear Hills Southdown Stud,Victoria, Australia. While in NZ, principally to see the NZ rams on offer at the sale, they stayed with Bill and Margaret in Timaru. Jane has now become an enigma, having twice visited NZ and brought excellent weather with her. After record rainfalls throughout rural NZ for January, Jane's arrival heralded four days of temperatures eventually making it into the 30s and allowing a rapid increase in hay making everywhere.
The Canterbury Stud Ram & Ewe Fair has just been held on the 13th of January, and Chris (as well as the rest of the family) was stoked when Tasvic Downs 4/03 was sold to Todd Anderson's Tralee Downs Stud for a new world record price of $16000. Chris also sold rams at $4800 and $4500 as well as selling all the other rams and ewes on offer. It wasn't one way traffic however as Chris purchased a ram for $8000 from Tralee Downs, which interestingly enough has the same number as the record setting ram he sold (ie 4/03).
You can read about the sale on the southdown sheep articles pages.
15.November.2004 For those of you who check here regularly, you will have realised that it seems as though nothing has been happening. Well, actually plenty has been happening, but nothing has been written! Chris recently judged at the 2004 Commercial Romney Farmer of the Year, which was won by Southland farmer Adrian Lawson. An article about Adrian appears in the latest issue (circa Nov 9th) of the Straight Furrow magazine, or you can read an excerpt and link to the full article by going to my "Blogs" in the menu to the left.
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The Christchurch Agricultural & Pastoral Show 2004 has just finished show week, with Medlicott Southdowns again having successful results. Briefly Chris was placed:
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More photos will be added soon from the show
30.May.2004 Recently the Central Southdown Breeders Club held a field day at Colin Smith's Bankhead property to discuss future trends in the southdown breed in relation to breed type, the impact of yield grading, and also had presentations from prominent former breeders David Wyllie and Bill Medlicott on the influence of the ewe in your bloodlines, and how to more successfully market your flock rams. read about the field day here >>
11.March.2004
Once again I have been slow in updating the news from the farm. I don't
know whether to blame the heat of January or the wind and rain of February,
but we now appear to be back on a 'normal' weather pattern.
Already this year the farm has played host to visitors from the USA
and United Kingdom.
Mark Johnson from Sandwich,Il. USA and his wife had managed to win a
competition held by the American Southdown Breeders Association and
included in their holiday to NZ and Australia were visits to some Southdown
stud breeding operations as well as an Angus cattle stud. A second generation
southdown breeder, their company was exceptional, and it was a real
pleasure to meet them and entertain them for the day. A lot of ground
and information was digested all round, and it is a shame that as travellers
we never seem to plan enough time.
20.January.2004 Read the article about Chris and his record prices published in the Timaru Herald today article pages >>
16.
January. 2004 Well the annual Canterbury Stud Ram &
Ewe Fair has been and gone once again, with 25 of the 46 rams on offer
selling at auction. Sales were well spread among the vendors, with Colin
Smith's Bankhead 144/02 topping the sale at $12500.00. This ram had
previously been the Champion Meat Breed Hogget at the Canterbury A&P
Show. Medlicott Southdowns sold four of the rams and nine of the ewes
we had on offer and details about these sales can be found on the Stud
Sales page >> Although not as successful as previous years Medlicott
Southdowns did manage to set a new NZ record for a ewe which sold for
$2600.00
- Bill enjoyed his first year at the sale since retirement by sitting
down the front and watching the sheep instead of the bidders and catching
up with a lifetime of acquaintances.
Click
here to read an article about the sale in The Press
8. January. 2004 A new year ushers in another Ram Fair, and once again Medlicott Southdowns will be on offer at the annual Canterbury Stud Ram & Ewe Fair on Thursday 15th January.There will be seven rams and ten ewes on offer and Tasvic Downs will be first into the ring after topping the sale again last year with a world record price for a southdown ram. to read the details about the studs for sale go to the stud sales page or click here >>
6. November. 2003 Its taken three years but the Medlicott Southdowns website has had a makeover! If you have got this far without noticing, I hope it is because you are a new visitor! Also on the homepage now there is a newsfeed which updates several times a week with mainly NZ farming related news.
16.October.
2003
Melbourne Show Well as those of you that read this
will know Bill & Margaret have been in Australia recently (still
there as I write) where Bill was judging. Today I received some proof
that they did turn up and this is the photo. Click on the photo to see
the full version
15.September.2003 Herd of cows? Well if its good enough for Rach to appear in adverts why not Mike! >>click here..
4.September.2003
What are 'Blogs'
Do you know? I am only just finding out too, but if you follow the Blog link on my homepage you will find some interesting
articles that I have come across while surfing the net. they are mainly
related to Southdown sheep or else to our family. When you get to my
blog page you will see a part of an article that I have copied but to
read the whole article you can click on the link at the top of the article.
It should change colour when your mouse hovers over it so that means
that you can then click it. There are some interesting pieces. Enjoy!
28.August.03
More updates!
The photos have been finally updated or made more presentable and on
the links page there is a daily updated column which points to mainly
IT news and Business news from USA and Australia. Some of the articles
can be quite interesting. Soon I hope to be adding daily NZ news updates.
22.August.03
Queen of Calves How do calf-rearers rate Queen of Calves?
Rachael Medlicott of Riversdale, endorses the merits...
>> click here to read what she said
4.August.03
Time for some news!It's time I put some new content on this
website..you are right..well without any recent articles to add I have
updated the links page instead..there are farming magazines, red meat
recipes, and lots of other interesting websites you can access from
my links page now. The other news is that Bill is off to Melbourne soon
to judge at the Royal Show...so there is still work in retirement for
him after all!.. 7.January.03
Annual Canterbury Stud Ram & Ewe Fair Yes the sale is on from
Wed 8th until Frid 10th with the Southdown Stud Ram & Ewe Sale on Thursday
at 1.30pm - Clifton Downs has three entries & Tasvic Downs two in the
sale.to check pedigrees etc, click here
Sale Stats
2.January.03
Its a new year & lots has happened!! Part of the farm has been
sold, restructuring is under way, Bill & Margaret are retiring in February,
Chris,Shelley & Miles will move out to the farm
24.April.03
Retired Yes..Bill and Margaret have retired to Timaru and
Chris has taken over the farm..this all took place at the end of February.
24.April.03
Update Due to changes in ownership and many other reasons
the website should be getting some new updates..please read through
the site as some information will be changing and hopefully soon we
will also be updating the pedigree side of the site
World Record
10.January.03
Tasvic Downs 34/01 sold for $13,200.00 at the Annual
Canterbury Stud Ram & Ewe Fair setting a new world record price
for a Southdown ram....Sale
Stats Read the article in The Press here Article
19.December.02
Two new articles added!..a history of the southdown The
Modern Southdown
& an article about Chris from the Farm Review Progressing
the Breed
For Sale
30.October.02
Yes thats the sign on Chris's farm..The auction is on November 22nd..go
to Auction
and have a look
9.June.02Time
for an update!! This
week has just seen the completion of the Southdown Society's bi-annual
tour. We were even priviledged to have friends (Graham Hooper & daughter
Jane) from Victoria, Australia along for the trip before visiting some
homes throughout NZ. The week was summarised in The Southland Times.
The whole article can be found under the 'articles' section of this
website or by clicking here. Articles
29.January.02
"Local
ram breeders share top-price honours" The headline in the Timaru
Herald Farm Review 29/1/02 written by Lindsay Mutch (rural editor)
The whole article can be found under the 'articles' section of this
website or by clicking here. Articles
11.January.02
A successful sale with 7 of the 8 rams on offer being sold and Tasvic
Downs achieving the top equal price ($4000) for a ram.
8.1.02 The South Island Stud Ram Fair in Christchurch on 10/1/02
is nearly here and Medlicott Southdowns will have eight Southdown rams
on offer. Four from the Clifton Downs Stud and four from the Tasvic
Downs Stud.More details can be found under the for sale page.
13.December.01
Medlicott Southdown semen can be sourced in the USA now through
Martin R. Dally
4000 University Road
Hopland, CA 95449
Ph/Fax (707) 744-1538
mdally@toprams.com
His company is Super Sire Ltd and information can be found at his website
www.TopRams.com
23.November.01 Well the news below was last week now and if you haven't seen the results yet I will be updating them soon. The good news however for Medlicott Partnership is that in the Elite Merial Class,Chris (Tasvic Downs) placed first by a whisker from Bill (Clifton Downs).
Below are a couple of extracts from The Press that appeared during the Royal Show.
"The Southdown sheep paraded before the Australian Southdown breeder, Geoff Baker of Southern Pastures, Victoria, at the 71st New Zealand Royal Show hosted by the Canterbury A&P Association. The whole of the Southdown showing were of top quality according to Mr Baker. The Reserve Champion ram was the winning hogget owned by Chris Medlicott of Waimate. This hogget class consisted of 23 rams. The winning ram was a lengthy sheep, with a good meaty carcase, a sires head, a full loin and showing plenty of style."
Also at the 6th World Sheep & Wool Congress Tasvic 99/00 was sold for $4400.
13.November.01 This week (Thursday, 14th-16th, November) the 6th World Sheep & Wool Congress is taking place at Canterbury Park in conjunction with the Royal Show and an Elite Ram Auction is being held at 3.00pm on Thursday 15th. Fourteen different breeds will be represented at the sale with the elite genetics of each breed, supported by excellence performance figures to show the quality of these rams. This gives intending purchasers a great chance to buy a superior ram of your choice. Tasvic Downs will be represented in the Southdown section of this sale.