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I believe the gene is the Inverdale gene. Aberdale is the sheep, bred in Aberystwyth, incorporating the Inverdale gene.

The origional sheep were called Inverdale

I used to bale the silage for the innovis farm in Edinburgh and I gave a hand during lambing back at that time (2006 ish) when the first rams were put out to farms for trial and they were all referred to as Inverdale.
 

neilo

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IIRC it's the Aberdale Gene. Basically a fecundity gene going in some lines of Texel. Each copy of the gene increases litter size by 0.3 in females.

So breeding a Aberdale to a base ewe should result in heterozygous ewe lambs, which will have 0.3 lambs more than their mothers.

I'm sure @NZDan and @Global ovine will correct me if I'm wrong.

I'll pre-empt them;), GDF9 is a different genetic mutation to the Inverdale gene. It gives a 30% increase in prolificacy,without the risk of infertility in double carriers that the Inverdale gene gives.
Some Cambridge sheep carry it, as do some NZ Texels (@easyram1 can probably add to this:rolleyes:), as no doubt would other lines, if they were tested.
 

ford4000

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I'll pre-empt them;), GDF9 is a different genetic mutation to the Inverdale gene. It gives a 30% increase in prolificacy,without the risk of infertility in double carriers that the Inverdale gene gives.
Some Cambridge sheep carry it, as do some NZ Texels (@easyram1 can probably add to this:rolleyes:), as no doubt would other lines, if they were tested.
I believe that Belclare sheep also have the FecG mutation on the GDF9 gene, and the most likely place that they got it from was from prolific Lleyns
 
jeeeeeeeezuus:D Think any grass just needs a medium to grow in, more important for milking cows would be how flat/big fields do you have to get enough winter feed. Most farms here in the peninnes have swaleys were cows once were, we are nearly all sheep now. Texels up on the moor etc.

If anything it looks like the ryegrass has seeded so is probably lower energy than a leafy unimproved, but plenty of clover which doesnt need dairy fields for it to grow in.
I find the ryegrass leys and natives which have taken over, cocksfoots/timothy/yorkshire fog etc and ryegrass are worse than unimproved land if they aren't carefully controlled through may/jun.. best fattening field on this farm by far is the one in my avatar, grazed it this year to try knock the buttercups in favour of clover, now its all leaf/mixed flowers loads of clover, etc and not a seed head in sight.
I always put any groups over there if i want to keep them separate, old knackers, lumpy bags, out to cull with footrot when it was bad, now codd sheep etc.. sheep and lambs go from struggling to the fittest on the farm. Field probably not been touched since the war.

Merely commenting on the fact the lambs are not being reared in marginal conditions to test their conversion of poor grazing. Plus its in a part of the world where arable and dairy are the norm.
 
IIRC it's the Aberdale Gene. Basically a fecundity gene going in some lines of Texel. Each copy of the gene increases litter size by 0.3 in females.

So breeding a Aberdale to a base ewe should result in heterozygous ewe lambs, which will have 0.3 lambs more than their mothers.

I'm sure @NZDan and @Global ovine will correct me if I'm wrong.
Close. Inverdale(BMP15) gene was first discovered in Romneys, 1 copy lifts lambs by .6 lambs per ewe, 2 copys and the ewe is sterile, its carried on the x chromosome.. It's since been added to UK texels sold as Aberdales.
There is a gene in Texels called Lambmax(GDF9) which one copy lifts by .3 and two copies lifts by .6 lambs per ewe.
 

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