![]() ![]() In the ten years that followed, the Yalgoo flock average was reduced from 19 microns to 16.3 and eventually to its current 15.8 microns. Grant insisted that it was possible to aggressively reduce micron without sacrificing major economic traits like body size, fleece weight and fertility, whilst ensuring wool and structural traits were improved. In this new era of sheep breeding, breeders were able to set flock goals and benchmarks. Yalgoo was a 19 micron flock cutting 4.5 – 5 kgs of wool. In 1997 Yalgoo were amongst the first to embrace sheep breeding values. With the limiting technology and breeding tools available this was considered rapid genetic progress. Wool quality and structural traits were also improved. Wool cuts stayed predominantly around the 4-5 kg mark and body weights were fairly stagnant. ![]() In the first 25 years the Yalgoo flock went from a 21 micron flock to a 19 micron flock. Yalgoo has been measuring and selecting based on economically important traits for 50 years. This ensures that genetic progress is both measurable and assured. The good news for our clients is that we haven’t been distracted by intangible traits and fads that hinder genetic progress. For the best part of the last 5 decades we have been concentrating on the objective and measurable traits that make wool growers money. We are basically commercial breeders that wanted to put as much pressure on commercially relevant traits to enhance our commercial ewe base, using all means possible. First and Foremost, Yalgoo has and will always be predominately a commercial merino enterprise. ![]()
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