Six Hundred Acre Wood SRS Poll Angora Goats

22/08/2026

DAY 8, Pirate and her twins taking the tally to 31 dams/48 kids, 15 singles, 15 sets of twins, our first triplets, average birthweight 3.5kg, from our 2022-24 drop does.🥰💪

16/08/2026

2026 kidding season hit the ground with 3rd time kidding three year old doe Twiggy and a hat trick (each buckling weighed 3.2kg) along side half sister Famous with a doeling 3.4kg and buckling (hiding behind mum) at 4.5kg! 🥰

18/03/2026

The boring basics that get results. Our fleece weight data to follow after this weekend's remaining shearing: top performing 6 month old buck so far shore 1.7kg of 20.8 micron, 4.6 standard deviation mohair, with a staple length of 170mm. And he's polled.💪😀 SRS Merino Calcaling Poll Merino Stud

25/01/2026

Biogenic life cycle approach towards estimating the carbon intensity of mohair production: conducted done for wool, now for mohair.

Significantly less carbon emissions in wool production when a biogenic life cycle approach is used. What would the carbon emission reduction for mohair look like?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X25003713

Key Takeaways for Mohair Producers (the tl;dr version): The science is shifting. ISO 14067:2018 provides a framework for accounting for biogenic carbon that better reflects the reality of grazing systems than emissions-only models. Mohair has inheren...

16/01/2026

of Fibre's sorting team working on some of the clip prior to auction,

04/01/2026

Just a man and his dog and his sheep and his goats.

Calcaling Poll Merino Stud and Hundred Acre Wood SRS Poll Angora Goats trial successfully running and together in .

28/11/2025

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development thank you and super excited to announce our success in obtaining a Carbon Farming grant because of our focus on and here in the .

10/09/2025

In just four years, principles applied every year sees 2025 with our highest kidding efficiencies, highest average birth weights, and most kids on the ground in the shortest time, all from paddock joining and paddock kidding during the worst WA winter weather we've recorded.

Multiparous does 5 years+: 137%, average birthweight: 4kg
Multiparous does (2022): 147%, average birthweight: 3.8kg
Secondiparous does (2023): 100%, average birthweight: 3.5kg
Primiparous does (2023, 2024): 150%, 3.4kg

Our first kidding year was a baptism by fire (28 multiparous 5-year-old plus does, 9 3-year-old maidens), we had 117% kidding rate with average birthweight of 3.5kg. Dystocia, still-borns, exposure, and constant 24/7 getting kids to suckle and dams to mother up!

Consistent application of these principles is key:

1. high birth weight sires
2. high post-weaning daily weight gain sires
3. fast-maturing sires (capable of joining at six months old)
4. sires from does with exceptional maternal instinct
4. minimum doe joining weight 33kg
5. fast-growing does (reaching joining weight at 7 months) and
6. maternal nutrition (protein and minerals).

Along with standard conformation requirements. Producing a fit-for-purpose and robust Angora goat growing soft, lustrous, fine, high-quality mohair regardless of age.

Our next post explores the association between doe joining weights and kid birth weights.

SRS Merino SRS Angoras XytoVet WA College of Agriculture - Cunderdin Calcaling Poll Merino Stud

07/09/2025

Joint display with Calcaling Poll Merino Stud at WA College of Agriculture - Cunderdin's Open Day.

SRS Merino SRS Angoras Merino WA WA College of Agriculture Denmark Wagin Woolorama Perth Royal Show XytoVet

29/08/2025

Record-breaking kidding day for our amazing -growing !

Most kids born on one day (21)
Heaviest single born to a maiden (4.92kg)
Most maidens kidding on one day (7 does)
Most twins born on one day (7 sets)
Most maidens kidding twins on one day (3 does)
Almost 100% increase in uterine capacity whether single or twin
Last but not least - anticipated dominant trait (PP) bucklings (pictured with poll dam, poll sire pictured with red tag) to be confirmed with DNA testing.

XytoVet SRS Merino SRS Angoras