Angus Halliday has been helping out the family farm and Poll Merino sheep stud for many years and is keen to keep going for years to come.
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From a young age, the idea of working on the family farm was fostered and was always seen as the logical progression, for both himself and his parents, Richard and Jacqui.
"I loved being out in the yards and helping Dad in the shed, looking at sheep and going to the shows," he said.
"It was in my plans - and Mum and Dad's as well - that I'd come back and help out one day."
Angus said they had clear plans for the future of their Poll Merino stud Callowie, with the aim of producing sheep with quality wool and a good carcase.
He said they were looking to breed "slick medium, heavy wool cutting sheep, without too much skin and positive carcase attributes, for quality meat and large carcase.
On their 900 hectare property, the Hallidays run 1500 Poll Merinos, with about 1000 in the stud flock.
Between leaving home and coming back to the farm, Angus went to the Western District of Victoria where he worked at Nareen Station for a year before going to Mount Yulong to work with the Rogers family for a couple of years.
"Nareen was a large commercial cattle and Poll Merino enterprise and Mount Yulong was a Poll Merino stud," he said.
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Along with working on his farm, Angus also enjoyed working with Lachy and Lou Day, Days Whiteface, Bordertown, on their White Suffolk and Poll Hereford studs.
"I'd never really done a whole lot with a stud cattle before, so I'm really enjoying learning all the things about them," he said.
"I enjoy switching it up and learning new things about the livestock industry and always trying to learn new stuff."
For anyone considering a future as a stud breeder, Angus said there were few key aims they should be focused on.
"Find traits that you think the industry are really lacking and go for them and try and better everyone's flock," he said.
Angus said the future of the farm was already a strong focus for the family.
"We've just bought 260 Sherlock ewes from Wes Titley, because he was dispersing," he said.
"We've acquired them and brought them on to the home flock and obviously, with the confinement pens, we'll be able to run a few more ewes.
