The Sheep
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Our aim is to produce sheep which:
Have increasing fleece weight with wool which becomes finer each year.
Have good constitution and conformation
Are early maturing and large framed
Are highly fertile with open faces
Thrive in our ‘high rainfall’ environment.
The Wool
Nareeb Nareeb Breeding Objective and Index
The Nareeb Nareeb breeding objective index places approximately equal emphasis on increasing clean fleece weight and reducing fibre diameter.
Both traits are simultaneously making large improvements.
Emphasis is also given to ‘style’ - fibre diameter variation (Standard Deviation), staple strength, and comfort factor, which affect spinning performance. In fact, our wool measurements fall well within desirable limits for these traits.
The predicted gains shown below allow for 35% of overall selection emphasis to be used to improve or maintain the standard of conformation and other wool quality traits not included in the index.
NAREEB NAREEB BREEDING OBJECTIVE
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DOES IT ALL WORK?
Nareeb Nareeb measures its performance by the whole wool clip each year from our 15,000 (approx.) sheep. Graph below shows movement over 20 years.
IT CERTAINLY WORKS - FOR LONG TERM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
NAREEB NAREEB GENETICS
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