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<blockquote data-quote="JD-Kid" data-source="post: 1882926" data-attributes="member: 479"><p>it's a hard call fastest gains hogget rams of hogget ewes as long as you know the trates or can ID them you can speed up cycles BUT you can also have a train wreck the whole lot may crash by year 4 </p><p>when i was tied up with footrot breeding program once family lines showed up trates those lines could be breed up once tests come out you could breed up faster </p><p>like micron it's a knowen thing simple to test for and can be done early in animals life </p><p>there were about 2-3 years worth of ewes and during a marage split the ewes were split one side got all the better ranked ones other got all the lower ones </p><p>the lower ones were all culled with in 2 more years, the better ones got moved around a bit and i think they may have all be sold out as no one took that stud on the work was shuned a bit like any of the old school breeding schools any one who bucks the system get's looked down on </p><p>we used to buy cull ewes from a large place also had a stud on it used to get quite a few stud ewes in the culls would of been minor things any thing major was sent to killing plants so wool probs , black spot , singles etc etc they may have also been ewes put out of the stud for a few years kept as a back up in case of a train wreck once line showed it was better then sold on</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JD-Kid, post: 1882926, member: 479"] it's a hard call fastest gains hogget rams of hogget ewes as long as you know the trates or can ID them you can speed up cycles BUT you can also have a train wreck the whole lot may crash by year 4 when i was tied up with footrot breeding program once family lines showed up trates those lines could be breed up once tests come out you could breed up faster like micron it's a knowen thing simple to test for and can be done early in animals life there were about 2-3 years worth of ewes and during a marage split the ewes were split one side got all the better ranked ones other got all the lower ones the lower ones were all culled with in 2 more years, the better ones got moved around a bit and i think they may have all be sold out as no one took that stud on the work was shuned a bit like any of the old school breeding schools any one who bucks the system get's looked down on we used to buy cull ewes from a large place also had a stud on it used to get quite a few stud ewes in the culls would of been minor things any thing major was sent to killing plants so wool probs , black spot , singles etc etc they may have also been ewes put out of the stud for a few years kept as a back up in case of a train wreck once line showed it was better then sold on [/QUOTE]
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