MT GUARDIAN

Mt Guardian Perendales have been run on Kalimera since the late fifties when my grandfather set up a Cheviot stud to cross with the existing Romney flock. The progression of course was to establish a Perendale stud which was initially run by Derek Anderson (my father), then Derek and myself and now in partnership with my wife Sue. We have been performance recording since the mid sixties and our SIL no 2 confirms the long period of involvement with the various sheep recording schemes. We have generally taken on board the current technologies to advance the genetic merit of our sheep. Besides the standard SIL production breeding values we have been scanning for meat since its conception and are now heavily involved with Pfizer Animal Genetics using DNA parenting and wormstar, and all our sires are DNA footrot scored through Lincoln University... Mt Guardian employs the Shepherd DNA parentage system. This provides highly accurate parentage recording, enabling rapid genetic progress.