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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7013955" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>I am not sure whether the figures are as accurate for terminal sires but I would certainly not buy a maternal ram without some figures. I always look at the ram first and the figures second though.</p><p></p><p>We have increased lambing % and weights sold by a very significant amount since using the figures for our flocks. However one has to be careful on interpreting what some of them actually mean and don't go to extremes.</p><p>A fault of the old traditional Romney was that it would get very fat before it had reached a commercial weight. So we tended to go for a high weaning weight with a low fat score with large eye muscle.</p><p>We fairly quickly noticed that while finished weights went up by over 10% some of these just kept growing and wouldn't finish. By going back to higher fat cover but keeping the eye muscle has been a great improvement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7013955, member: 699"] I am not sure whether the figures are as accurate for terminal sires but I would certainly not buy a maternal ram without some figures. I always look at the ram first and the figures second though. We have increased lambing % and weights sold by a very significant amount since using the figures for our flocks. However one has to be careful on interpreting what some of them actually mean and don't go to extremes. A fault of the old traditional Romney was that it would get very fat before it had reached a commercial weight. So we tended to go for a high weaning weight with a low fat score with large eye muscle. We fairly quickly noticed that while finished weights went up by over 10% some of these just kept growing and wouldn't finish. By going back to higher fat cover but keeping the eye muscle has been a great improvement. [/QUOTE]
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