Well done to Rachael Longmore who presented an update on the University of New England, AU Meat & Livestock Australia MerinoLink Limited DNA Stimulation Project at the MerinoLink conference.

MateSel is a tool that was developed by University of New England and is hosted on the Sheep Genetics website, helping to take mating selections to another level.

It is well known pregnancy scanning ewes in a Commercial flock has many great benefits and is also a great trigger to get your tag's ordered for the coming lambing season.

NLW (Number of Lambs Weaned) ASBV (Australian Breeding Value) is used to select for reproduction however it combines many stages of the reproductive cycle.

Sally and Sam had the opportunity to present one of the training sessions at this year’s Wyvern Weekend run by the Peter Westblade Scholarship.

Did you know that this response in reproductive rate varies between flocks by as much as 13% and 60% more lambs for each extra condition score (CS).

ASBV’s are currently available for all flystrike indicator traits except for urine stain (more information needs to be entered into the database for there to be a reportable ASBV for this trait).

Ewes in better condition at joining, on average, conceive more lambs and therefore have a higher reproductive rate (foetus/100 ewes joined).

When submitting your DNA samples it is really important that you make sure that they are package up really well before posting, making sure the postage box is well taped and the racks have an elastic band around them or are in a zip lock bag.

Sally was invited to present an update to the Health & Welfare Committee recently about what we are doing with our clients working towards transitioning to non-mulesed and the use of DNA testing.

This video was made from funding from MLA Donor Company, UNE and MerinoLink as part of the UNE/MerinoLink DNA Stimulation Project.