Berry Partners Deep Dene

18/10/2026

Sale day 2026.

Our first on the green at 303 West Rd MacGillivray.

The weather was primed for our best sale.

Thankyou to everyone who came and supported us, bought our rams or had a look.

Cheers

15/10/2026

What a day at the sale! Perfect weather for our first sale on the green! We are feeling incredibly grateful, humbled, and completely blown away by the support at our annual ram sale today.

A massive thank you to all our long-term clients for your continued trust in our genetics, and a warm welcome to the new faces and names joining the Deep Dene family this year—including buyer H Bastian from as far as the Southern Flinders Ranges!

Huge thank you to the Nutrien Ag Solutions Kingscote , the sale ran so smoothly behind the scenes and nothing was too hard. Thanks to Gordon Wood from Nutrien Livestock - S.A. Stud Stock, you provided such quality auctioneering with some gem phrases falling out of your mouth. Love your work.

Sale Highlights:

Cleared: 44/47 rams sold under the hammer (2 retained for our own commercial flock)

Top Price: $3,800 reached twice! Lot 4 selling to Riverview Pastoral and Lot 13 to Mike & Sandra Smith.

Volume Buyer: Manor Estate, taking home 7 rams.

Top Spender: Manor Estate Holdings.

A special shoutout to Tim Salmon, manager at Manor Estate, and his wife Tara. Today was Tim’s final Deep Dene sale with Manor Estate as they head off to pursue their own exciting new venture. Thank you for your support over the years, Tim, and all the best from us!

Thank you to all our multi-ram and pair buyers for keeping the auction moving at such a strong pace:

5 Rams: Circle T and Riverview Pastoral
4 Rams: McKenzie Trading Trust, A & J Florance
3 Rams: Sugars Hillview, D & J Florance, M & S Smith
Pairs: Treville Farming, Willson River Trading, Veitch Family Trust, P & K Buick, and new buyers H & A Bastian.

Didn't secure everything you needed?

We know a few of our long-term clients missed out on their full numbers today with demand running so high.

We hate seeing anyone go short, we currently have 13 Quality Private Selection Rams available ready to go.
If you need to fill your ram team for the season, please reach out to us directly to arrange a look.

We trust these rams will work hard for you this season, and we can’t wait to hear how their progeny perform.

Thank you again for an unforgettable sale! 🐑

Photos to come later - I didn't take any today!!

15/10/2026

12/10/2026

Can't make it on sale day?

Check out these short videos we created for each lot in the sale. They're very organic.

Link in the comments!

Watch them move shake and groove and see if they'll do the job for you!

Sabrina is ready to take any orders you may have. 😀🐑🐑

11/10/2026

This post is a difficult one for me but I wanted to be completely transparent.

Hopefully you've all been made aware of the change in location for the Deep Dene Poll Merino Stud.

We're moving to improve our biosecurity between our commercial flock and our stud animals as our enterprise grows. We have been considering this move for sometime but it has been brought forward drastically recently after a commercial wether mob came in for shearing and was suspected to have lice.

To be clear this mob was in a secluded paddock by chance, nestled between two cropping paddocks and a creek line. The wethers were sold off shears as mutton and there was no evidence of lice in any other mob throughout shearing. The commercial flock will now undergo a lice eradication program.

To say were gutted is an understatement, but the wheels must keep turning so a plan was put in place, expert advice was sort and we started implementing.

All our young stud animals were promptly mustered cleanly to the cable bridge property, or as we call it, Deep Dene West.

Cable bridge was decided on, as there are existing facilities, shearing shed and yards and is surrounded by natural buffer zones, Berry Partners cropping country and West rd as protection. All the stud animals within the new zone were drenched with a product called Flexolt, which eradicates all lice without the need for shearing and treating. This was done as a precaution.

We've not had lice for over 10 years so this has been quite devastating for us all, but has given us an opportunity to adapt, learn and improve.

There's a little bit involved in moving our stud sheep onto 'Cable Bridge'. Renovating the shearing shed, unused for 30 years. Upgrading fences that are not up to standard. Planting pastures in existing cropping country... The list goes on.

An update on the progress to date.

We've restored the power to the shearing shed, re fenced a broken fence around the shed yard and today have renovated the very unsafe shearing shed landing and steps. It's a good feeling seeing the old girl being repaired and will now be a lot safer to start clearing out and cleaning up inside before our 58th annual on property Poll Merino Ram Sale this Thursday.

Something tells me it will be quite a moment when we shear our first sheep in there.

We appreciate all our very supportive clients during our phone conversations.

Thanks to Charlie at Kangaroo Island Veterinarian Clinic, your advice was king.

Thank you to Simon, and Lloyd for taking time out of your weekend for repairing the landing. And making the 'green' worthy of a ram sale. ❤️

Thanks to Sabrina from Nutrien Ag Solutions Kingscote your continued support and laughs along the way is always appreciated.

Thank you Brodee for your 'can do' approach to life and helping make this happen.

Thank you to the Holman family for the loan of your portable yards for penning up rams and your food warmer to keep our sausage rolls hot!

We look forward to welcoming you all to our auction Thursday on the green.

Bring a hat!

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10/10/2026

Thanks Deano from Kambah Poll Merinos for hand modelling our wool shot from lots 5 & 9.

9mm of rain yesterday and still hanging in.

Sunshine for the rest of the week until Thursday, sale day, please 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

09/10/2026

While I work on uploading our videos and photos onto our website. Here is a sneak peak of the first six lots in our upcoming ram sale Thursday 15th October. Photos taken after 2 inches of beautiful spring rainfall the week prior.
Watch out for any updates https://www.deepdeneki.com/

04/10/2026

September 2026 has bid it's farewell

The shears are packed, the wool shed quiet,
Just before the dark clouds drew,
Ewes freshly shorn on open pasture
Rest and gather strength anew.
The lambs are settled, calm and feeding,
Quiet post the weaning noise,
While springtime shifts its steady rhythm,
Balancing its trials and joys.
We mowed the hay to catch the sunshine,
Then watched two inches fall instead
Classic spring, a curveball thrown,
With heavy skies and ground turned wet.
A new location for the ram sale,
Changes set for trade and drive,
Through rain and work and turning seasons,
This is how the paddocks thrive.

Sale Day 15th October. Inspection 12pm | Auction 2pm

27/09/2026

Come on over and check out what we have on offer at Deep Dene!

​Every commercial flock has its own priorities, so rather than offering a one-size-fits-all ram, we deliberately breed different specialized lines.

That way, whether you need to boost wool cut, drop micron, accelerate lamb growth, or add carcase muscle to your ewe base, our 2026 draft gives you the flexibility to select the exact genetics your flock needs next.

​A Sample of What You’ll Find in This Year’s Draft

​✂️ The Fleece & Fine Wool Line

​For producers looking to maximize fleece weights, boost staple strength, or refine fibre diameter.

• ​Lot 2 (250222): Massive wool cut — Top 5% Fleece Weight (+36.37% YCFW) with a Top 5% Sustainable Merino Index (173.08).

• ​Lot 9 (250157): Fine wool specialist — Top 5% Yearling Fibre Diameter (YFD -2.84) while maintaining a top 10% overall index value.

• ​Lot 10 (250066): Pure fleece power — Top 5% for both YCFW (+40.93%) and ACFW (+30.91%) with excellent post-weaning frame.

• ​Lot 21 (250113): Staple strength & fleece cut — Top 5% YSS (+9.11) combined with Top 5% YCFW (+35.92%).

​🚀 The Growth & Frame Line

​For operations aiming to get commercial lambs to market weights sooner or build heavy, robust replacement ewes.

•​ Lot 1 (250159): Heavy growth driver, Top 10% Yearling Weight (+13.34 YWT) and Top 10% Post-Weaning Weight (+10.33 PWT) with strong natural worm resistance (-42.24 YWEC).

• ​Lot 5 (250111): Frame and weight engine, Top 20% YWT (+12.17) and Top 10% PWT (+10.23).

• ​Lot 16 (250280): High index, rapid growth, and massive fleece, Top 10% PWT (+10.46) paired with Top 5% YCFW (+43.92%).

​🍖 The Carcase & "Meat Merino" Line

​For graziers targeting dual-purpose performance with extra muscle depth, fat cover, and lamb survival benefits.

• ​Lot 31 (250095): Outstanding carcase & wool combination, Top 5% Eye Muscle Depth (+3.31 YEMD), +1.64 YFAT, heavy fleece cut (Top 20% YCFW), and strong worm resistance (-44.25 YWEC).

• ​Lot 12 (250176): High muscle & staple length, Top 20% YEMD (+2.56) combined with impressive staple length (12.53mm YSL).

• ​Lot 30 (250014): Deep muscle & easy care, Top 20% YEMD (+2.56) with top-tier worm resistance (Top 10% YWEC -57.79).

​Thanks so much for reading through our post!

We’d love to see you on sale day to inspect our Berry Partners Deep Dene Poll 2025 Drop Rams.

​📅 Sale Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026
📍 Location: 303 West Rd, MacGillivray, SA 5223
📞 Contact: Caitlin Berry — 0419 171 020
🕵🏼 Agent: Nutrien Ag Solutions Kingscote Nutrien Livestock - S.A. Stud Stock
• Sabrina Andrews
• Paul Bott

​📖 Browse our Full Catalogue on Sheep Genetics:

https://search.sheepgenetics.org.au/catalogue/sales/12155?db=5&user=0&scenario=8

Booklets to printers tomorrow 🎉

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