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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7113693" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>All the major recording schemes that I know of are delivering real economic progress to their adopters (less so to those that just happen to be members thinking it’s a marketing tool). Tbh I find the Irish star system quite simplistic and a very blunt tool, but it’s a start and I guess it makes things simple to pick out a better performing tup.</p><p>The UK system provides many times more information, especially now CT data and RamCompare data has been included in the analysis. However, because it provides so much data, producing so many trait ebvs, it is a less clear tool to use for those not understanding it, or not necessarily wanting to.</p><p></p><p>There is no reason why you can’t have ‘character’ too IMO, and I would suggest breeding for both is quite important. When I select my replacement females I do so purely on confirmation and ‘character’. If one doesn’t appeal to me, then it gets hung up, regardless of figures. I do look afterwards, and have killed the highest index female in the breed several times. I do look VERY closely at trait ebvs in stock rams though, alongside appearance.</p><p></p><p>To those naysayers that suggest you can’t have character in high performance sheep, and that all recorded sheep are cr*p, I would point out that the record price Beltex (65,000gns) was top 10% index, the record price Texel is top 1% and the record price Charollais (25,000gns) is top 1%. I dare say there published figures weren’t given much, if any, consideration by their buyers, but they did push on for sheep that had performed. There may just have been a connection....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7113693, member: 348"] All the major recording schemes that I know of are delivering real economic progress to their adopters (less so to those that just happen to be members thinking it’s a marketing tool). Tbh I find the Irish star system quite simplistic and a very blunt tool, but it’s a start and I guess it makes things simple to pick out a better performing tup. The UK system provides many times more information, especially now CT data and RamCompare data has been included in the analysis. However, because it provides so much data, producing so many trait ebvs, it is a less clear tool to use for those not understanding it, or not necessarily wanting to. There is no reason why you can’t have ‘character’ too IMO, and I would suggest breeding for both is quite important. When I select my replacement females I do so purely on confirmation and ‘character’. If one doesn’t appeal to me, then it gets hung up, regardless of figures. I do look afterwards, and have killed the highest index female in the breed several times. I do look VERY closely at trait ebvs in stock rams though, alongside appearance. To those naysayers that suggest you can’t have character in high performance sheep, and that all recorded sheep are cr*p, I would point out that the record price Beltex (65,000gns) was top 10% index, the record price Texel is top 1% and the record price Charollais (25,000gns) is top 1%. I dare say there published figures weren’t given much, if any, consideration by their buyers, but they did push on for sheep that had performed. There may just have been a connection.... [/QUOTE]
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