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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7492304" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>IIRC it’s caused by a recessive gene. If you are having lots then I suspect those genes must be in your females, as well as any rams you are using. A simple change of ram breed/breeder won’t stop it if that’s the case, unfortunately.</p><p></p><p>As a genetic variation, it will always occur in any population, at a low frequency. Any responsible breeder should cull any lambs that exhibit the problem, end of, otherwise that frequency will increase. If you are getting enough to be a problem then it would suggest you have been buying/breeding from lines that should really have been hung up.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately plenty of breeders, across all breeds, don’t see it as a issue that deserves a cull tag, so the problem persists.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😡" title="Pouting face :rage:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" data-shortname=":rage:" /> It should be almost non-existent by now, regardless of breed or breeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7492304, member: 348"] IIRC it’s caused by a recessive gene. If you are having lots then I suspect those genes must be in your females, as well as any rams you are using. A simple change of ram breed/breeder won’t stop it if that’s the case, unfortunately. As a genetic variation, it will always occur in any population, at a low frequency. Any responsible breeder should cull any lambs that exhibit the problem, end of, otherwise that frequency will increase. If you are getting enough to be a problem then it would suggest you have been buying/breeding from lines that should really have been hung up. Unfortunately plenty of breeders, across all breeds, don’t see it as a issue that deserves a cull tag, so the problem persists.😡 It should be almost non-existent by now, regardless of breed or breeding. [/QUOTE]
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