yous guys need to get a hobby
mind you....if i have trouble sleeping , could be that this is the thread to read.....infact...
nobody forces you to read this sh!t
yous guys need to get a hobby
mind you....if i have trouble sleeping , could be that this is the thread to read.....infact...
i havnt tbh, but like i say i now know where to come when i need something to induce deep refreshing sleep , ......nobody forces you to read this sh!t
nobody forces you to read this sh!t
OK, getting back to the sheep in question....
Given your own regular comments about sheep with negative fat ebvs, where do you stand on the extreme negative fat ebv on the new messiah of the Texel breed? Kill or keep?
Don’t agree about the sheep ireland the best performance recording system in the world, very far from it being great and easily manipulated on farm with lambs in the rushes for 2 weeks and the meal shed door always open and very poor % with in flocks.I buy my rams on figures, mouth feet and basic physical correctness but I must put character into it now to run with the big boys. In Ireland we have one of the best performance recording systems now in the world but most of my fellow farmers are still hung up on looks and overfed lumps of shite that are reared by small hobby breeders who have no clue about commercial farming as it doesn't apply to them. The sooner the school teachers and policemen are left sitting with their over priced short lived poor genetic rubbish the better. Character never paid the bills. The 350k was a set up like all the rest and anyone who believes different is seriously deluded. It happens at every big sale. It's a pyramid scheme.
Have them bloody rushes in the central region where the ewe disappears for 2 weeks and then comes out with her fresh born lamb with super growth rateRamCompare evaluates the progeny of rams, out of crossbred ewes, run on commercial farms & systems. What better evaluation can their be? It’s a big step in front of evaluating a bunch of rams on their own performance in a test station tbh.
That use in commercial flocks does mean that those rams will usually lose their health status, so their wouldn’t be many ‘pedigree’ flocks that could buy those rams back.
Many years ago, Holme Lacey college in Herefordshire used to run a trial like the French set up, for Charollais rams within the Central Region. It was all very interesting, until it was ‘won’ by a certain well respected lecturer from Harper Adams that had a Charollais flock. It turns out that he’d falsified the birth date by several weeks, which only came to light when his wife sent in the registrations to the Society with the correct birth dates on. It all stopped soon afterwards.
Dishonest strokers always get found out, it’s just good it happened before the progeny of that ram showed up the deceit via their performance. Thankfully extra connect ness within the analysis makes it less easy to influence things by such fraudulent activity now, and another reason why performance of close relatives are used in the BLUP analysis.
Who bred the Irish lamb that went to the north.CT scanning several of the ram lambs will have increased the accuracy a bit, several daughters were retained here, with their progeny recorded for as long as they remained, and an Irish son of the French ram was used in Northern Ireland with progeny recorded. All will have added to the accuracy figure, and all point to him being cr*p.
The Lanark madness continues
£16k for that ......... View attachment 910828
what sort of goat is it?
I said similar to that on the blackie Facebook page during the sale, it was taken off pretty sharp by the modswhat sort of goat is it?
They do say ,''your not a true sheep breeder until you have f***ked up at least two breeds''.One with exceptionally good horns.
Some nice horns for a crook thereThe Lanark madness continues
£16k for that ......... View attachment 910828
They do say ,''your not a true sheep breeder until you have f***ked up at least two breeds.
Some on here would say you've achieved your goal!Going for the hat trick
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