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Arawata
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John Somerville or Geoff Gill
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address.
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Pine Bush, 1 R D , Wyndham ( J Somerville) & Otahuti, R D 4 , Invercargill ( G Gill )
03 2469 803 ( J Somerville ) 03 235 2620 ( G Gill ) |
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ph.
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03 2469 803
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johnsomerville@woosh.co.nz
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Arawata is a partnership between Geoff & Diane Gill, who farm at Otahuti, Southland & John & Mel Somerville, who farm at Pine Bush , Southland. Both farms are farmed entirely separately, we just share Sires & combine our sale animals for our annual on farm sales. |
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Ever since the partnership started in 1979, our emphsis was on Velvet, Size & temperment. In the mid 1980's we purchased a stag from the Festl park (Germany) whom we called Dick. He became the backbone of our breeding for the next 10 years with his very correct antler structure & strong tops. We complemented him with stags from P Fraser, ( mainly sons of Caesar & Buccaneer ) with their thick velvet & good body conformation.
We also did an extensive AI programs, using Warnham park sires such as Ramasses, James, Charles Rupert, the Sultan, Austin & recently Buller .We also introduced some trophy lines with AI, using semen from Brusnik, Motsumi, Adonis, King & Hannibal.
We have bred some industry leading sires including Lotto, Magnum, Goldie, Cassius and Titan.
Today with Van Gogh & Icon our emphasis is still the same producing big well natured stags with very correct & heavy velvet plus with some emphasis now on the trophy side.
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