Beef producers in the UK aim to produce high quality meat as efficiently as possible but ultimately, payments for cattle relate to their carcase weigh ...
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A New Lamb Survival EBV in Progress
Signet and EGENES (SRUC) have been looking at creating a new postnatal lamb survival EBV to help breeders genetically improve young animal resilience ...
Changes to the Scottish Blackface Breeding Evaluation produced for Signet Recorded Flocks
Samuel Boon, September 2016 Based on work completed by EGENES/SRUC and funded by AHDB Beef and Lamb & Quality Meat Scotland Summary AHDB and ...
Recording sire information on BCMS passports generates new breeding tools for carcase traits.
Kim Matthews and Samuel Boon Whilst improvements in carcase conformation and fat class have been observed over the last decade, at present only 55% ...
Review of genetic improvement in UK beef cattle and sheep
Genetic improvement delivers substantial economic benefit to the UK’s sheep and beef industries. The financial benefit to UK sheep producers via incre ...
Funding Agreed for Combined Breed Genetic Evaluations
UK genetic evaluations of sheep have traditionally been undertaken within purebred populations. However, much of the UK sheep industry is a stratified ...
Poster on Lamb Mortality
A new poster has been produced by Dr Jo Conington which explains about risk factors influencing lamb mortality. This is important work bearing in min ...
Variation in spine characteristics in sheep
Implementing the use of spine traits in a commercial breeding program has been seen to improve meat production from the carcass of larger-bodied pigs. ...
Four Teated Sheep
Alexander Graham Bell (first person to patent the telephone) was one of the first people to record the existence of sheep with extra teats – noting in ...
Utilising Maternal Trait EBVs in Beef Breeding Programmes
Beef bulls have a major impact on the quality of the UK suckler herd as all suckler cows are sired by a beef bull. To improve the efficiency of the na ...