The confidence to select the next generation of your flock

GeneSeek Australia helps you make more confident breeding decisions with trusted genomic insights. By understanding the genetics behind your animals, you can identify genetic potential, improve selection accuracy and make decisions that support long-term progress in your flock.

Our genomic solutions help you:

  • Select animals earlier in life with greater confidence
  • Confirm parentage and/or reduce pedigree errors
  • Increase the rate of genetic gain within your breeding program
  • Improve selection accuracy using DNA-based insights
  • Identify traits that are difficult to routinely measure on-farm
  • Introduce favourable traits, such as polledness, more efficiently within your flock
  • Manage recessive genetic conditions
  • Benchmark your flock’s genetics and track genetic progress over time

Premium genomic solutions for Australian Sheep Breeders

Smart Flock gives you a clearer understanding of your flock’s genetics, helping you confirm parentage, assess economically important traits and identify recessive genetic conditions that may impact your breeding decisions.

Smart Flock offers a range of genomic testing options designed around your breeding goals, helping you choose the solution that best fits your flock and selection objectives.

The Smart Flock product range is the premium genomic solution available to Australian lamb and wool producers.

Smart Flock helps you accelerate genetic progress, supporting improved productivity and profitability across your sheep enterprise.

Choose the genomic solution that fits your breeding goals

Smart Flock Elite includes genomic profiling, parentage assignment, the sheep poll test (Merino only), and the incorporation of genomic profiles into the Sheep Genetics genetic evaluation for the calculation of genomically enhanced breeding values.

Smart Flock Profile provides the average genetic merit of a flock or mob based on the collection of DNA samples for a random sample of 20 animals. Smart Flock Profile is only available for Merinos at this stage.

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Smart Flock Select gives Merino commercial and ram breeders, including non-Sheep Genetics members, individual-level analysis for 13 traits and 4 indexes, supporting smarter selection and stronger flock performance.

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Smart Flock Parentage determines the parentage of lambs – that is linking a lamb to its dam and/or sire – from a list of potential sires and dams that are provided as being possible parents. Testing is available for all sheep breeds.

Genomic Profiling with a Difference

GeneSeek Australia’s Smart Flock product range offers Australian sheep breeders with a premium genomic solution that delivers maximum value from their investment in genomic testing. To learn more click here.

Smart Flock Elite comes with a guaranteed 28 day turnaround time, demonstrating Neogen Australasia’s commitment to providing sheep breeders with an exemplary customer experience.

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Rather than utilising generic genotyping platforms, Neogen’s Smart Flock Elite and Smart Flock Profile products include the genomic profiling of animals with Neogen’s premium, proprietary genotyping platform, the GGP Ovine 50K.

Smart Flock Elite is fully integrated with Meat & Livestock Australia’s central genomics database for the Australian sheep industry, delivering Smart Flock Elite customers with a blue-ribbon DNA parentage assignment service.

Genomic Solutions for Genetic Traits & Conditions

GeneSeek Australia offers a range of tests to assist with the management of important qualitative traits and genetic conditions in sheep operations.

Depending on the trait or condition of interest, testing can be ordered as either a standalone test, or in association with Smart Flock Elite or Smart Flock Parentage products.

The Sheep Poll Test is designed for Merino breeders and involves testing animals that are phenotypically polled, and identifying those that are predicted to be homozygous polled animals.

Spider Lamb Syndrome testing is available as a standalone test for Suffolk animals and identifies animals that are carriers for the spider lamb syndrome genetic condition.

Export certification reports can be provided for Scrapie Resistance from animals that have been tested with either Smart Flock Elite or Smart Flock Parentage.

Available with Smart Flock Elite, the Comprehensive Traits bundle includes a detailed set of fertility, meat and health traits validated across multiple breeds.

Custom Genomic Solutions

Every sheep enterprise and every breeder is unique, which is why GeneSeek Australia provides a range of customised genomic solutions to help breeders achieve their breeding goals.

GeneSeek Australia’s customised genomic solutions cater for everyone from individual sheep breeders to large-scale pastoral companies, breed associations and research organisations.

Neogen Australasia offers custom genomic testing solutions for organisations with specific needs not met by our standard genomic tests. Our experts will design a test package tailored to your unique goals.

We provide a range of customised genetic evaluation services, from the development of genomics-only selection tools, to the establishment of a single-step genetic evaluation where genomically-enhanced breeding values are calculated on a routine basis.

Neogen Australasia’s NextGen Sequencing portfolio ranges from SkimSEEK to Whole Genome Sequence (WGS) and is ideally suited to use by research organisations who are looking for an additional depth of genomic information.

Genomic Testing Your Animals

Ready to collect samples and order genomic testing in your sheep enterprise. GeneSeek Australia has some helpful resources to get you started.

DNA Sampling

Genomic testing of sheep is most commonly conducted using Allflex Tissue Sampling Units (TSUs).

Purchase DNA Sampling Equipment for cattle and sheep

Purchase DNA Sampling Equipment

Purchase Allflex TSUs and applicators from Neogen Australasia. Order via customer service or the Sheep DNA website.

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Genomic Testing Process

Genomically testing your animals is easy – just follow Neogen’s step by step guide.

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Submit, view and manage your DNA orders via the Sheep DNA website.

Further Reading

For those wanting to know more, contact us for a free consultation to discuss your breeding goals and find a genomic solution that meets your needs. Some useful resources are also provided below.

Breeders Guide to Genomics

The ‘Demystifying DNA Technology – A Livestock Breeders Guide to Genomic Selection’ publication provides useful background information regarding genomic selection and its application in a sheep enterprise.

Purchase DNA Sampling Equipment for cattle and sheep

The Power of DNA Testing

The Sheep CRC’s ‘The Power of DNA Testing’ playlist on YouTube encompasses a series of short videos discussing the value that genomic testing offers to a sheep breeding program.

Sheep CRC Practical Wisdom

The Sheep CRC’s ‘Practical Wisdom’ fact sheet series has a wealth of information on the role genetics and genomics can play in sheep production.