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<blockquote data-quote="hendrebc" data-source="post: 5642956" data-attributes="member: 70166"><p>I think a wool shedding terminal sire would be potentially more useful than a maternal line. Almost all the trouble I have with maggots is in the lambs. Pour on costs money (but does solve the problem but £££) imagine if you could have a terminal sire that had the same growth and confirmation as a good texel/charollais/whatever that also lost all its wool (even lambs from wooly ewes if that is possible?). Lambs would be much easier to keep over summer with no wool. </p><p>Not sure if shedding is dominant enough for lambs to shed especially first crosses in their first year? Don't really know enough about it all to be honest. But the first shedding ram lamb has gone with 25 ewes here as a trial so will soon find out a bit more <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Could shear the lambs I suppose. Still ££</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hendrebc, post: 5642956, member: 70166"] I think a wool shedding terminal sire would be potentially more useful than a maternal line. Almost all the trouble I have with maggots is in the lambs. Pour on costs money (but does solve the problem but £££) imagine if you could have a terminal sire that had the same growth and confirmation as a good texel/charollais/whatever that also lost all its wool (even lambs from wooly ewes if that is possible?). Lambs would be much easier to keep over summer with no wool. Not sure if shedding is dominant enough for lambs to shed especially first crosses in their first year? Don't really know enough about it all to be honest. But the first shedding ram lamb has gone with 25 ewes here as a trial so will soon find out a bit more :) Could shear the lambs I suppose. Still ££ [/QUOTE]
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