AMM® sheep are unique. For the first time high quality fine wool can be produced on a meat sheep of high fertility.

An AMM ewe at 9 months of age and unshorn. Note the animal's plain body, open face and floppy wool.

AMM® wool is fine in diameter, very soft and lustrous. The adult ewes produce about 8 kilograms of 18.5 micron wool per year and reach combing wool length of 80 to 85 millimetres every 6 months, hence the sheep are shorn twice a year.

Being plain bodied and totally free of skin wrinkle AMM® sheep do not need to be mulesed.

A large proportion of the sheep also have breeches which extend through the inside of the back legs and around the pizzle.

Note the excellent udder size in the lactating AMM® ewe. The udder is also free of wool and not trapping any lambing stain.

Sheep usually have only two milking teats. However, AMM® sheep have been bred with four teats which is associated with the ewes rearing more lambs that are 10% heavier at weaning than the lambs bred by ewes with two teats. These ewes wean up to 130% lambs

The AMM® ewes and lambs bond very well. The ewes defend their lambs vigorously against foxes. The sheep thrive on pasture of low feed availability in both hot and cold environments.

We rear our sheep in the hot and arid regions of far western New South Wales (Balranald) where summer temperatures peak at 50°C and the annual rainfall averages 250mm and the high summer rainfall region of Bendemeer New South Wales where winter temperatures fall to -16°C and the annual rainfall averages 1000mm.