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Does the hill shepherd get a fair share of the pie?
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<blockquote data-quote="LTH" data-source="post: 7465538" data-attributes="member: 149060"><p>When you go buy a pure tup</p><p></p><p>The blue faced Leicester are the same breed and produces the same maternal traits, just different appearance. When you go and buy a tup of any breed you know what your getting as they’ve been bred to produce consistent type of animal cross bred tups produce huge variation. But your still producing a breed by line breeding similar genetics and stablising them like the aberfield and primera have been stabalised to produce a breed, breed types are one thing that can be down to choice but preserving the genetic pool so you can breed the sheep you want is important, so when you buy a Cheviot tup to put over your ewes it is a Cheviot and you know the qualities you will get. Same with 3 way crosses in dairy cows you need good pure Swedish reds, fleckveihs or whatever to produce that animal!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LTH, post: 7465538, member: 149060"] When you go buy a pure tup The blue faced Leicester are the same breed and produces the same maternal traits, just different appearance. When you go and buy a tup of any breed you know what your getting as they’ve been bred to produce consistent type of animal cross bred tups produce huge variation. But your still producing a breed by line breeding similar genetics and stablising them like the aberfield and primera have been stabalised to produce a breed, breed types are one thing that can be down to choice but preserving the genetic pool so you can breed the sheep you want is important, so when you buy a Cheviot tup to put over your ewes it is a Cheviot and you know the qualities you will get. Same with 3 way crosses in dairy cows you need good pure Swedish reds, fleckveihs or whatever to produce that animal! [/QUOTE]
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