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Best Sheep breed

brownswiss · 2012-09-15 07:03:02

http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=69398&page=2 "I'm all for correcting trace element deficiencies, but I find no reason to excuse any genetic weakness in any breed by continuous pharmacutical treatment. If a breeder has Suffolks which get daggy because of failure to pellet dung, or more susceptible to worms…

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http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=69398&page=2 "I'm all for correcting trace element deficiencies, but I find no reason to excuse any genetic weakness in any breed by continuous pharmacutical treatment. If a breeder has Suffolks which get daggy because of failure to pellet dung, or more susceptible to worms etc....then sort them out genetically. I know of flocks of NZ Suffolks as clean as any other breed because the breeders have tackled this head-on instead of masking the problem to breed on in commercial flocks. Fortunately for the UK these flocks were sampled for recent importations."....

Just looking for breeders respnse to the above forum discussion.

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