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<blockquote data-quote="M-J-G" data-source="post: 8918032" data-attributes="member: 1819"><p>It's not just a case of them doing well, more that they have to do better than hybrids for there to be a greater demand and price.</p><p>Or is the whole hybrid vigour thing not true in your mind?</p><p>(I ask that out of genuine interest)</p><p></p><p>My origional point was that if you are going to keep a hybrid in your system it may as well be in whichever half of the equation that you're going to reap the most benefit from, and that must almost certainty be in the ewe flock since you have so many more of them that you have ewes.</p><p></p><p>The pig industry is pretty much all about hybrid sows put to a 3rd cross boar because the sow is bringing the same amount of genetics to the table as the boar whilst doing pretty much all the work, making her first cross status beneficial to her overall performance.</p><p>The same has generally been the case with sheep and suckler cows in the past as well.</p><p></p><p>Hybrid rams are fine because they might be tougher, fitter and live longer than a pure, but if they only make it 1or 2 percent of the breeding flock and the remaining 98% are pure ewes that would benefit from being replaced by a hybrid ewe I would be opting for a hybrid ewe as a priority over a hybrid ram.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M-J-G, post: 8918032, member: 1819"] It's not just a case of them doing well, more that they have to do better than hybrids for there to be a greater demand and price. Or is the whole hybrid vigour thing not true in your mind? (I ask that out of genuine interest) My origional point was that if you are going to keep a hybrid in your system it may as well be in whichever half of the equation that you're going to reap the most benefit from, and that must almost certainty be in the ewe flock since you have so many more of them that you have ewes. The pig industry is pretty much all about hybrid sows put to a 3rd cross boar because the sow is bringing the same amount of genetics to the table as the boar whilst doing pretty much all the work, making her first cross status beneficial to her overall performance. The same has generally been the case with sheep and suckler cows in the past as well. Hybrid rams are fine because they might be tougher, fitter and live longer than a pure, but if they only make it 1or 2 percent of the breeding flock and the remaining 98% are pure ewes that would benefit from being replaced by a hybrid ewe I would be opting for a hybrid ewe as a priority over a hybrid ram. [/QUOTE]
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