Breeding Objective: | Selecting low-input animals that have high performance in both breeding and finishing systems, using the dual-purpose index. |
The Texel-Cross Road Using Texel genetics that have been selected for maternal traits, as Mount Linton has, is crucial for cross-breeding with your maternal ewes. The Texel has become renowned as a terminal sire breed with high meat yield and growth rates. But it has also been bred on Mount Linton as a dual purpose animal that has fertility and improved lamb survival. It is these dual-purpose characteristics that the Station is seeking in a maternal sheep.Selecting for the High Five: Fertility Survival, Meat Yield, Growth and longevityA specific MLM (Mount Linton Maternal) SIL index has been designed to evaluate the genetic performance of animals within the new flock including:
Check out these current sires SIL data:![]() Mount Linton Mainstay 3065/2012 |
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