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Leading Suffolk for Overall
Carcase Merit index for 2020
is the high yielding Midhope
Hans Solo L20:16:00992.
This AI sire bred and
nominated for RamCompare
by John Key, was in the Top
1% of the breed for his EBVs
for Muscle Depth and CT
Muscle Weight.
The Impact of Signet breed is massive and has been part
Recording on the Suffolk of the breed’s commercial appeal in
Breed recent years.
The National Suffolk Breeding If you wish to get involved in
Evaluation will include over 12,000 performance recording, getting
new lamb records that are added your lambs assessed using
each year by Signet and the Suffolk ultrasound or receiving breeding
Sheep Society; out of these new values to aid breeding decisions
records over 45% are from flocks then contact Signet for a starter
actively engaged in performance pack. Recording fees start from
recording with Signet. £95/flock plus £3/ewe for flocks
using online data entry.
Amongst those Suffolk flocks with
100 or more lambs, nearly 60% With commercial producers actively
of them record their lambs with seeking recorded flocks, it pays to
Signet, so the trickle down impact get involved – taking the Suffolk
of genetic improvement within the breed forward a generation at a
time.
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