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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7013928" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>Are you judging them on what they look like as mature rams, or how their lambs perform to slaughter weight (which is the only bit that performance recording attempts to quantify)?</p><p></p><p>I can understand why you might want a ram to look big and strong as an aged ram, but that really is an irrelevance to the commercial production of lamb. I have known of plenty of bloodlines that have been sh*ts of lambs at slaughter weight, and who wouldn't grade without a lot of hard feed, but who have made clonking good shearlings and sold in the thousands. I also know plenty of bloodlines that produce lambs that are good and ready at slaughter weight, off cheap forage only, but who never get above 120kg themselves. Which makes for the better commercial ram?</p><p></p><p>Judging adult rams is totally unconnected to what their lambs do ime, unless your primary aim is to produce more adult rams the same (which is unfortunately what the shearling trade is all about at ram sales of course). 'A real Shearling maker' <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7013928, member: 348"] Are you judging them on what they look like as mature rams, or how their lambs perform to slaughter weight (which is the only bit that performance recording attempts to quantify)? I can understand why you might want a ram to look big and strong as an aged ram, but that really is an irrelevance to the commercial production of lamb. I have known of plenty of bloodlines that have been sh*ts of lambs at slaughter weight, and who wouldn't grade without a lot of hard feed, but who have made clonking good shearlings and sold in the thousands. I also know plenty of bloodlines that produce lambs that are good and ready at slaughter weight, off cheap forage only, but who never get above 120kg themselves. Which makes for the better commercial ram? Judging adult rams is totally unconnected to what their lambs do ime, unless your primary aim is to produce more adult rams the same (which is unfortunately what the shearling trade is all about at ram sales of course). 'A real Shearling maker' :banghead: [/QUOTE]
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