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Performance recording pays off for Scottish Texel flock

The Aberdeenshire-based Seed family use performance recording to back up visual appraisal in order to best meet the demands of their pedigree breeding stock customers

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Performance recording pays off for Scottish Texel flock

The family run 100-ewe pedigree Auchry Texels alongside a flock of 50 traditional Bluefaced Leicester females and 350 cross-bred ewes at Home Farm, Auchry, near Turriff. The top-performing Texel ewe...

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