Coolalee

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Coolalee is an Australian short-wool meat sheep breed. It was developed from an eight-year breeding program that began in 1968, by crossing Wiltshire Horn, Suffolk, Hampshire Down, Poll Dorset, Lincoln, and English Leicester sheep. The first Coolalee rams were commercially available in 1983. These rams are used as terminal sires to produce prime lamb.

Coolalee sheep have shown strong results in an independent central progeny testing system for prime lambs. The tests aim to identify top meat sheep sires and their ability to sire elite lambs with a carcass weight of more than 22 kg and a fat score of 2–3. The testing also showed significant reductions in fat depth in first-cross Coolalee lambs.