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<blockquote data-quote="NZDan" data-source="post: 8120460" data-attributes="member: 1037"><p>There are a couple of large Romney studs here in NZ that have a fair level of black genes in them. They don't seem to worried about it, as one of the stud principle said 'just put any black lambs of as prime' We tail on one place that gets rams from them out of 2500 ewes he probably gets 10-40 black lambs a year, they all just go prime.</p><p>The other perk around black sheep (not dominant black) is that the gene that causes the white pattern in sheep also causes a drop in ovulation rate of about 0.15 per copy of the gene, all other things being equal black sheep have more lambs than white sheep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NZDan, post: 8120460, member: 1037"] There are a couple of large Romney studs here in NZ that have a fair level of black genes in them. They don't seem to worried about it, as one of the stud principle said 'just put any black lambs of as prime' We tail on one place that gets rams from them out of 2500 ewes he probably gets 10-40 black lambs a year, they all just go prime. The other perk around black sheep (not dominant black) is that the gene that causes the white pattern in sheep also causes a drop in ovulation rate of about 0.15 per copy of the gene, all other things being equal black sheep have more lambs than white sheep. [/QUOTE]
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