Genetic Notes
Within this section we have a series of pages showing information of general interest to both sheep and beef breeders.
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Genetic topics for sheep and beef breeders
- Creating a breeding plan
- The impact of mature size on efficiency
- Inbreeding and how to manage it
- Recessive inherited diseases
Sheep Breeding Programmes
- Recording lambing ease
- Lamb Survival – A trait of economic and environmental importance
- Recording vigour and suckling
- Getting the best out of Signet Recording
- Maternal ability EBV in sheep
- Scoring Wool Shedding in Signet Recorded Flocks
- Weight adjusted traits in sheep
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Breeding for gigot shape using CT
- Breeding for spine length and intramuscular fat % in sheep using CT
- Breeding for worm resistance - a technical update
- Breeding indexes in sheep
- EBVs in Signet's sheep evaluations
- The terminal sire breeding index
- The maternal and crossing breeding indexes
- The hill sheep breeding index
- Buying a hill ram
- Index customisation tool for sheep breeders
- An API to get EBVs
- Genetic group solutions in sheep breeding evaluations
- Measuring Dag Score
- Using performance recording in crossbred ram breeding
- Out of season breeding
Beef Breeding Programmes
- How beef EBVs are calculated
- 200 day milk EBV for beef cattle
- Ultrasound scanning beef cattle
- Breeding indexes in beef breeding
- Standardised values (indexes) for cattle
- Contemporary groups in beef evaluations
- Genetic linkage in beef recording programmes
- Breeding for polling in cattle
- Recording Cattle Weights