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Latest results from a better breeding project have shown a higher return of more than £20 per ewe. The Quality Meat Scotland- funded Scottish Sheep Strategy project, Benefits of Better Breeding in the Scottish Sheep Sector, has demonstrated once again that sheep producers can achieve greater margins by using a High Index recorded sire. The Hazelbank trial near Lockerbie with purebred Lleyn's has shown that High Index sired lambs left gross sales worth £20.49p per ewe more than returns from Low Index sired lambs. Results from Westerhall near Dollar, one of the Scottish Blackface Focus farms, have backed up these findings, also showing that returns from High Index sired lambs were worth an additional £17.93 per ewe with the 2008 lamb crop through increased carcase weight and more lambs on the ground. Mamie Paterson, chair of... [read full story]
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