I'm aware easy calving bulls have shorter gestation. Does the same hold true for easy lambing rams?
My ewes are due from today (150 days since rams went in). But a large proportion of the easy care sired lambs have been born in the last 4 days.
Any thoughts?
As some will have been aware NZ Beef and Lamb Genetics has been running a Low Input Central Progeny test. It has just completed it's 2nd mating ( I'm scanning the ewes today) and the initial results from the first lamb crop are being released next week.
The aim if the CPT was to look at...
Alternative crop, no more rapeseed woes:
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Where is the best place to find North Country Cheviot rams that are grass fed only and performance recorded? Can anyone recommend the best breeders to talk to? Also are North Country hill and Lairg cheviots the same thing? Thanks.
I thought I would start an alternative thread to the Holstein bull thread. What are people's best Bulls? Mine would be Black Isle glen albyn and tittenser hylke.
Who's worked for you ?
My best old cows are by picston shottle and comstar outside they both have there faults the main one being they are to big. The in younger cows the outside son Jeeves looks to be the stand out sire. They are that bit smaller, solid cows with better udders and more set...
Last week i upgraded my phone from a Nokia nearly as old as me to the cheapest smartphone on the market so now i have the TFF App and find myself taking photos of everything.
So i thought I'd start a dairy specific picture thread where people can post pics of cows, calves, bulls, parlours...
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