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The breeding programme on the farm is focused on breeding sheep that can perform positively on a forage-based diet.
Looking back on the production system utilised over 20 years ago for producing rams for sale, Neil McGowan says it was appalling how much concentrates they were feeding rams to prepare them for sale.
He describes how the farm’s breeding programme found itself caught in an “increasingly competitive feeding race”.
It was a situation which was neither working for the farm or the producer purchasing these rams. The severity of the situation really hit home through attendance at discussion group meetings.
Exacting standards on the maternal ability and commercial performance of breeding stock have grown the customer base of a Scottish farm’s Texel and Lleyn