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<blockquote data-quote="JD-Kid" data-source="post: 8255158" data-attributes="member: 479"><p>yea know were yer coming from on hills here and would be good to ID the best ewes but DNA is a bit out of reach price wise </p><p>do use EID alot with hog scanning 2 and 4 tooth scanning avg of all scans etc etc lambs mostly kept out of ewes scanning 1.75% avg </p><p>looking at records ewes that had single as 2 and 4 tooth tend to be lower all there life so going to look at them harder looking at records the 2's single/single vs 3 or 4 single /twin ..twin/twin is about 30+% diffrence in scanning but you are guessing realy if they rased just a single or nothing come weaning </p><p>from what I have seen hogget lambing not realy much diffrence in outcome with hoggets that did not get to weight to mate there life time scan avg same as ones that did 2 and 4 tooth avg showed up more </p><p>but yes would be great to know what rams leaving best off spring weight gains etc etc thats were DNA testing would come in</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JD-Kid, post: 8255158, member: 479"] yea know were yer coming from on hills here and would be good to ID the best ewes but DNA is a bit out of reach price wise do use EID alot with hog scanning 2 and 4 tooth scanning avg of all scans etc etc lambs mostly kept out of ewes scanning 1.75% avg looking at records ewes that had single as 2 and 4 tooth tend to be lower all there life so going to look at them harder looking at records the 2's single/single vs 3 or 4 single /twin ..twin/twin is about 30+% diffrence in scanning but you are guessing realy if they rased just a single or nothing come weaning from what I have seen hogget lambing not realy much diffrence in outcome with hoggets that did not get to weight to mate there life time scan avg same as ones that did 2 and 4 tooth avg showed up more but yes would be great to know what rams leaving best off spring weight gains etc etc thats were DNA testing would come in [/QUOTE]
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