Covid-19: sack or back recording?

[Ysgythan]

Breeders - In a year of marketing uncertainty can you justify the cost? Or is this the last year you should get rid of any sort of data provision?

Are Signet even going to be allowed to go farm to farm backfat scanning?

Buyers - if you haven’t been that involved in selection based on EBVs do you reckon it will help if we don’t get collective sales?

 

[neilo]

Signet aren't doing ultrasound scanning on the early lambing flocks this year, nor are SAC allowed to CT scan. The position for later lambers will likely be reviewed when they know what the social distancing rules are at the time (but unlikely to happen).

Why on earth would you stop this year when any extra data added will still feed into the analysis? I would take extra note of the accuracy figures on sheep with no background data though, as their ebvs will be based on weights only.

 

[Woolless]

I would have to admit, the fact that back scanning might not happen hadn't even entered my mind. That's only part of the picture, though. Plenty of other data which can be submitted.

If the big tup sales are to be affected, then more sales on farm and perhaps more emphasis on data and less on heads and competitive cabbage eating?

 

[Nithsdale]

I've kept a ruck of lambs entire. I'm not buying anything this year.

 

[primmiemoo]

(Ah. Not a thread about waxing, then. Carry on.)

 

[An ancient git]

I'm going back for another 'EasyRam' this season . rubbish to any recording here , but these NZ types get up and go !!

 

[Woolless]

I'm going back for another 'EasyRam' this season . rubbish to any recording here , but these NZ types get up and go !!

Not everyone wants to record their own sheep but you will be reaping the benefits of @easyram1's efforts recording his flock

 

[Ysgythan]

Why on earth would you stop this year when any extra data added will still feed into the analysis?

because a break in routine is a time to reflect and look at some cost:benefit analysis.

 

[Ysgythan]

If the big tup sales are to be affected, then more sales on farm and perhaps more emphasis on data and less on heads and competitive cabbage eating?

the London Marathon is postponed to October at the earliest. I doubt they’d say that without speaking to government. Are we looking at collective but socially distant sales in October?

 

[Ysgythan]

I've kept a ruck of lambs entire. I'm not buying anything this year.

it may come to that yet. On a simple basis you know all you need to about your own best lamb. Inbreeding will even give the figures a boost for next year.

 

[neilo]

because a break in routine is a time to reflect and look at some cost:benefit analysis.

Shouldn’t everyone be doing that continually? I know I do, but whether I act on it might be a different matter.

I am instigating a few changes with the sheep here, but stopping recording the Charollais certainly isn’t one of them.

 

[Ysgythan]

Shouldn’t everyone be doing that continually? I know I do, but whether I act on it might be a different matter.

I am instigating a few changes with the sheep here, but stopping recording the Charollais certainly isn’t one of them.

it’s easy to slip into “well we did it last year”

there is something which has kept us doing it, although jam tomorrow wears thin if it doesn’t appear.

I just thought this year should be a turning point for EBVs, if farmers aren’t going to look to them when sales are lock down when will they? I’m just not getting that feeling and wondered if it was actually out there.

 

[Tim W]

Go ahead and quit using BLUP , no skin off my nose
But some may think that this is a year when recorded stock comes into it's own?
Our customers that i have spoken to are happy to pick their rams on data and have them delivered ---there's less need to see the rams in a sale when you know something about them already?

 

[Woolless]

the London Marathon is postponed to October at the earliest. I doubt they’d say that without speaking to government. Are we looking at collective but socially distant sales in October?

Quite possibly but a socially-distanced Kelso, for example, would be very different.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I'm planning on buying 30 females and 2 tups. All will be the result of performance recording or genetic testing.

 

[Ysgythan]

Go ahead and quit using BLUP , no skin off my nose
But some may think that this is a year when recorded stock comes into it's own?
Our customers that i have spoken to are happy to pick their rams on data and have them delivered ---there's less need to see the rams in a sale when you know something about them already?

those are your customers. If they weren’t prepared to do that it would be interesting.

 

[Ysgythan]

Quite possibly but a socially-distanced Kelso, for example, would be very different.

it’s a struggle to imagine

 

[Ysgythan]

I'm planning on buying 30 females and 2 tups. All will be the result of performance recording or genetic testing.

it’s also the end of April. I suspect some will start really thinking about it in September.

 

[unlacedgecko]

it’s also the end of April. I suspect some will start really thinking about it in September.

I couldn't do that. I have a really clear vision and a plan of how to achieve it.

 

[Ysgythan]

I couldn't do that. I have a really clear vision and a plan of how to achieve it.

I’d like to think so too, but then sheep happens