Signet and EGENES (SRUC) have been looking at creating a new postnatal lamb survival EBV to help breeders genetically improve young animal resilience ...
Sheep
Guidelines for ultrasound scanning
Changes to the guidelines relating to the ultrasound scanning of sheep Samuel Boon, Signet Breeding Services and Janet Roden, Independent Geneticist ...
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 ...
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 ...
New report: The Impact of Generation Interval
Pedigree breeders often ask how they can make faster genetic progress within their flocks. The rate of genetic change achieved within a flock is depe ...
Sheep Breed Survey Results Now Available!
The fifth Sheep Breed Survey has been completed in England, Scotland and Wales and gives a unique insight into the industry’s complex breeding structu ...