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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 8081568" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I’m guessing it wouldn’t take long to breed Charollais, Texel, or a cross thereof to shed. You’d likely need a big flock of them to start with though, so that you could select from within those shedding lines as new genetics would take a generation or two to shed? </p><p>How long would it take to breed out the compromises that would have to be made on terminal traits, that introducing currently available shedding genetics would entail? </p><p>Would it be worth the time & expense for what is always likely to be a very ‘niche’ market, and where the rate of genetic progress on terminal traits will always trail that made by more mainstream (woolly) breeders?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 8081568, member: 348"] I’m guessing it wouldn’t take long to breed Charollais, Texel, or a cross thereof to shed. You’d likely need a big flock of them to start with though, so that you could select from within those shedding lines as new genetics would take a generation or two to shed? How long would it take to breed out the compromises that would have to be made on terminal traits, that introducing currently available shedding genetics would entail? Would it be worth the time & expense for what is always likely to be a very ‘niche’ market, and where the rate of genetic progress on terminal traits will always trail that made by more mainstream (woolly) breeders? [/QUOTE]
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