Introducing the Exlana sheep after eight years of development

Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 00:18 UTC

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The concept of an easier care animal is not new – as SIG, a group of eight sheep farmers developing Sheep Improved Genetics, are the first to admit. But after years of breeding sheep through genetics, not cosmetics, the Exlana breeders say they have bred the ultimate animal. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
OK, so it sheds its own wool; but does it pick it up off the moorland and deposit it in sacks?
Or has Sheep Improved Genetics also cloned genetically modified moorland-wool-collectors also?

Joking, but intrigued by how self-shearing works out in practice.
Jul 22nd, 2013 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
1 GeoffWard2

I agree, you would think the minimum would be close confinement while the coat is coming off to prevent as much dirt as possible from damaging the yield.
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Mr Ed
Plenty of my friends have dogs that shed hair, I've lost a fair bit too. We now have, in England, a race of Meisterschafen who will rule the world. They are not uneatable, but unbleatable.

But put it up in the Lakeland fells against a Herdwick, or in the Borders against a Border Leicester, and you may find that its path to World domination is baaed.
Jul 22nd, 2013 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Mr Ed ... “Haw, haw, haw!”

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M-WD_9Nlao0/TWLEl7InAyI/AAAAAAAABUg/HAX-u52ZO1A/s640/1210255252_470x353_laughing-horse.jpg&imgrefurl=http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/2011/02/genuine-mexican-plug-mark-twain.html&h=353&w=470&sz=29&tbnid=EYrIvC5hq3ddIM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=111&zoom=1&usg=__jkS76uOTQPQpgA1Emq5fdZ9AVGk=&docid=mhgr0ZDO7-XP4M&sa=X&ei=9E7uUaDsEoe50QXRoYBQ&ved=0CEEQ9QEwBQ
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