I've been pushing them to use some 'confirmation' rams to compare against some of the massive growth rate lines (although this fella and his sire are both well within the top 5% for growth too).
). Ronnie's dam had a couple of cracking ewe lambs bred the same way this time, and will be flushed to the same ram this October.
That's some achievement.
I can see I'm going to have to keep an eye on you during my rise to Total Domination Of The UK Sheep Scene.
Ugly buggers though, aren't they?
), but that ewe managed to have half a dozen ewe lambs and a ram lamb. The ram lamb, which has stood out since birth, was in the group I took to Aberystwyth for CT scanning at the end of August. Parent average had him pegged at an index of 443, which would have put him in the top half dozen Charollais lambs this year, but I always thought from his performance that he was likely to exceed that comfortably. 
More smugness I'm afraid...
Another year rolls on, and the high muscularity lamb that was the subject of this thread was used as a flush sire on one ewe last year, as well as his sibling being used for natural service. Unfortunately ET didn't go as well as usual last year (worst results in nearly 20 years
The latest BLUP run has just been done, and the figures went online last night. My boy done good, and the breed has a new top index of 530.
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That's also three generations on the male side that have achieved those high indexes from our March lambing flock, without ever seeing an ounce of creep, just to further dispel that little myth.
He doesn’t have a very nice hair do though, does he?
Just goes to show what you can do when you've a couple of Beltexs wandering about the place
Seriously though, @neilo , well done
