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Random. But this is the type of skin / coat type we are selecting on the shedding lambs. Finding these lambs also have the best shape and thicker skin!
It’s got a black nose. Cull.Random. But this is the type of skin / coat type we are selecting on the shedding lambs. Finding these lambs also have the best shape and thicker skin! View attachment 1038244
There is something slightly 3rd Reich about itIt’s got a black nose. Cull.
My understanding of it is you shouldn't need to test....Will get some photos of the myomax lambs at some point. Everyone seems to be obsessing over it, so have found some ewes with double copies and rams with double copies and have got 100 odd lambs out of them to test.
That's exactly how it works. Classic Mendelian Punnett Square inheritance.My understanding of it is you shouldn't need to test....
..double carrier x double carrier should surely be a double carrier
My understanding of it is you shouldn't need to test....
..double carrier x double carrier should surely be a double carrier
You can see why we called our first one Ho Chi MinhProbably still worth testing to confirm, particularly if lambing outdoors with minimal intervention. Any trial would be an expensive nonsense if an inadvertent mixup at lambing meant that your ‘double myoMax’ ram was actually a non-carrying moustached goat who’s mother had dropped it next to your double carrier ewe and buggered off… just as an example.
Do you dock and castrate all the shedding lambs? I’ve got some born mid April not touched yet and I’m tempted to leave them alone. Hoping to sell all the males as stores in early September off farm though so perhaps would be better if they were done- not sureRandom. But this is the type of skin / coat type we are selecting on the shedding lambs. Finding these lambs also have the best shape and thicker skin! View attachment 1038244
I think you'll have rather a limited market for undocked entire ram lambs in September. Why not ring them in the first 24 hours, takes minimal time and shouldn't cause any problems with maternal ewesDo you dock and castrate all the shedding lambs? I’ve got some born mid April not touched yet and I’m tempted to leave them alone. Hoping to sell all the males as stores in early September off farm though so perhaps would be better if they were done- not sure
Dunno mate. Everyone seems to want a bit of paper proving stuffMy understanding of it is you shouldn't need to test....
..double carrier x double carrier should surely be a double carrier
One flock - nothing docked but everything castrated.Do you dock and castrate all the shedding lambs? I’ve got some born mid April not touched yet and I’m tempted to leave them alone. Hoping to sell all the males as stores in early September off farm though so perhaps would be better if they were done- not sure
Probably still worth testing to confirm, particularly if lambing outdoors with minimal intervention. Any trial would be an expensive nonsense if an inadvertent mixup at lambing meant that your ‘double myoMax’ ram was actually a non-carrying moustached goat who’s mother had dropped it next to your double carrier ewe and buggered off… just as an example.
Dunno mate. Everyone seems to want a bit of paper proving stuff
But it’s fairly low down the list of traits we are after.
Think it adds 7% muscling to back end basically.
7% more muscle on a sh!t sheep and it’s still a sh!t sheep. You can get plenty of sheep with better muscle depth etc that don’t have myomax than one with.
But it’s another thing to tinker around with.
Yes maybe so- that’s why I was pondering what to do. I left them alone last year and fattened the ram lambs myself which was ok but we are on some high land and I was looking to shift them a bit sooner to try and free up some room.I think you'll have rather a limited market for undocked entire ram lambs in September. Why not ring them in the first 24 hours, takes minimal time and shouldn't cause any problems with maternal ewes
Yes maybe so- that’s why I was pondering what to do. I left them alone last year and fattened the ram lambs myself which was ok but we are on some high land and I was looking to shift them a bit sooner to try and free up some room.
I’m a one man band lambing over a few parcels of land- running up to 1600 feet so won’t be ringing them at birth as I’d rather leave them quiet and in what little shelter they have.
Would think if you plan to sell as stores they would definitely be better with the balls off !Do you dock and castrate all the shedding lambs? I’ve got some born mid April not touched yet and I’m tempted to leave them alone. Hoping to sell all the males as stores in early September off farm though so perhaps would be better if they were done- not sure
I was hoping if I found a private buyer it might not be such an issue. In Hereford market last couple of years store tup lambs have been making just as much if not more than clean lambs. But this is usually a later in the season- Nov onwards. Obviously the fact that they are shedders, I’m looking to sell in September and the price of feed may have some impact on the price.Would think if you plan to sell as stores they would definitely be better with the balls off !
Yes, I've seen a buyer at Hexham specifically looking for tup lambs but I'm not sure that I'd want to rely on it for placing big numbers.I was hoping if I found a private buyer it might not be such an issue. In Hereford market last couple of years store tup lambs have been making just as much if not more than clean lambs. But this is usually a later in the season- Nov onwards. Obviously the fact that they are shedders, I’m looking to sell in September and the price of feed may have some impact on the price.