Breeding values will help more lambs hit market specification

摘要

The preliminary results from the first two years of RamCompare, the UK's firstcommercial progeny test, were made available to the sheep industry at the Sheep Breeders Round Table in late November.During the first two years, data was collected from nearly 6,000 lambs sired by more than 70 different rams used on six commercial farms and fed into genetic evaluations. Artificial insemination (Al) was used to link farms and years, enabling the farm or year effect to be removed within the genetic evaluation.