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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7945914" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>Signet aren’t encouraging it but, especially with CT scanned genetics, they do provide a means to select for it. The market here isn’t rewarding it though, so I would think progress in that direction will be limited/non-existent.</p><p>Quite the reverse, premiums are being paid on confirmation, rewarding the use of Texel, and especially Beltex, genetics which are extremely low in imf% but have hard gigot muscling.</p><p></p><p>As you well know, Signet ebvs have changed a lot since 40 years ago. It’s now 20 years since excessively lean sheep were hammered hard on index, not that that has much to do with marbling/imf. Increased growth and muscle yield is obviously still the main aim of terminal sire BLUP, as it should be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7945914, member: 348"] Signet aren’t encouraging it but, especially with CT scanned genetics, they do provide a means to select for it. The market here isn’t rewarding it though, so I would think progress in that direction will be limited/non-existent. Quite the reverse, premiums are being paid on confirmation, rewarding the use of Texel, and especially Beltex, genetics which are extremely low in imf% but have hard gigot muscling. As you well know, Signet ebvs have changed a lot since 40 years ago. It’s now 20 years since excessively lean sheep were hammered hard on index, not that that has much to do with marbling/imf. Increased growth and muscle yield is obviously still the main aim of terminal sire BLUP, as it should be. [/QUOTE]
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