Our sheep

As well as being energy efficient lawnmowers, our easy doing sheep can be used for meat, fibre, therapy animals and agritourism.
Our goals are to breed small, compact sheep with excellent conformation, easy lambing and good meat qualities. We select for calm temperament and use low stress handling techniques so our sheep are friendly and easy to handle.

We have now scaled up our production so that we can provide starter Babydoll flocks for commercial vineyards and orchards as well as stud quality Babydolls.

See Babydoll notes from Tocal Field Days talk 'Babydolls on Small Farms'.

Roogulli Babydolls

The prize winning Roogulli Babydoll stud has focused on breeding high quality white and coloured Babydolls since 2015.

Our latest breeding challenge is to develop lines of coloured Babydolls using the recessive colour genetics that naturally occur in Southdowns. Read more

Hillgrove Babydolls

The Hillgrove flock, founded in 1921, was purchased by Roogulli Farm in 2025. The stud has skillfully bred a Babydoll style of Southdowns for over one hundred years, starting long before the Babydoll breed was even thought of. Hillgrove genetics have been used to establish all the older Babydoll flocks of Australia.

Our first home bred Hillgrove lambs arrived in 2025. We look forward to working with this flock and using our knowledge of breeding Babydoll sheep to continue the Hillgrove stud tradition of producing elite, high performing genetics. Read more
Babydoll sheep breed on an annual cycle. We join our rams and ewes in early Autumn for lambing in early Spring. These lambs are weaned at the end of the year. We typically sell our sheep in Summer.

Jump onto our waitlist if you want to be notified when our Babydolls are available.

Science of wicking beds

We have grown food in wicking beds for many years. Roogulli Farm has been used to research why and how wicking beds work in a university research project.

We are no longer doing research in this field but are happy to share the results of what was learned. If you like what was done, you might like to continue the research yourself and also share the results with the wider community.