With an unfortunate lack of events this summer the Texel Sheep Society has launched an online competition to replace those it usually runs at events over the summer months.
This year, you have the chance to win a weight crate to help you manage your flock and make the most of the commercial opportunities the Texel breed offers.
Texel breeders continue to develop the breed to suit the needs of the commercial sheep industry, with Texels the UK’s number one terminal sire and also a popular maternal breed.
Recent years have seen performance within the breed excel even further, with lambs recorded with the Texel Sheep Society’s texelplus genetic improvement service now 4.5kg heavier at 20 weeks than lambs of the same age in 2011.
In addition, texelplus recorded lambs also have 0.25mm more loin muscle depth than lambs in 2011 and are also 1.8kg heavier at eight weeks old than in 2011.
Today just shy of 34% of pedigree Texel lambs are sired by texelplus lambs, helping disseminate the improvement in performance throughout the breed and, through commercial ram sales, the wider UK sheep flock.
These improvements in performance bear out the well known mantra ‘measure to manage’ and now the Texel Sheep Society is offering you a chance to enhance your flock management with the chance to win a weigh crate (shown opposite). To enter simply click here.
