New Sires.

New Sires for this year.                                                        Updated: 08/04/2008

    This season we shall be progeny testing one of our best home-bred rams and a new purchase from the Rainbow flock, both of which are scrapie genotyped ARR/ARR.

Rainbow House of Letterawe (XPU7009).

    Rainbow House of Letterawe (XPU 7009) was purchased privately from Andrew & Jan Walton's Rainbow flock after I placed him first in the ram lamb class at the Staffordshire County Show. Seeing him at the show, where he was the only ram lamb shown untrimmed, he was full of flesh with great width over the loin and rump and a full gigot, coupled with an incredibly tight, dense fleece. What I did not know at the time was that he had also scanned with an eye muscle depth of 40.9mm and a muscularity score (from CT) of 7.92. He is sired by multiple show champion, Southam Exotic (NE 4419), who has sired progeny to 7,600gns, out of a daughter of Lowerye Evangelist (ZVY 4079), an Apostle son that I sold to the Walton's at the 2004 Premier Sale. I am told that the dam is a typical Evangelist daughter, wide,  full of flesh and a regular member of the Rainbow show team. House's fleshing qualities have given him a muscle depth ebv of +3.72mm and an index of 295, despite carrying a little fat.

    I have used House over more than 120 females and over two of my ET donor ewes, so he will have a fair crack of the whip. It will be interesting to see how well he nicks with daughters of Eric, an exciting prospect.

    Lowerye Humpty Dumpty (ZVY 7061) is a son of Crogham Five Star (AB 5085) out of a thick L.Eric daughter. His dam was born by ET from a daughter of sire reference ram Caernevas Ascender from my very best female line that traces back to FX 1023. Humpty Dumpty is a huge, long ram with a masculine head and incredible width throughout. He scanned with an eye muscle depth of 37.5mm at a liveweight of 70kg giving him an index of 401. He has been selected as a sire reference ram for use in 2008 and will be the fourth consecutive generation of reference ram.

L. Humpty Dumpty (ZVY 7061).

  Sire Reference EBV's:

    I have included the top 10% percentile ebvs for reference. 

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