Meet Our Icelandic Sheep - AI Sire Descriptions

THROTTUR:  Excellent back, loin and leg muscling.

White and angular. Broadly handsome and strong-head bearings.  Very thick neck, high shoulders, broad and muscular. Very broad chest . Broad and well filled behind. Rather long-bodied and powerful ram.

Strong and straight legs.  Scores:  8.0,9.0, 8.5, 8.5,9.0,18.0,7.5,8.0,8.5,=85.0

Wool Description:  Wool is of average quality with few dark hairs in fleece.  Thick thel and even and curly tog.

Daughters:  Very good fertility and average milking capabilities.  Prolificacy:  106   Milking Abilities:  104

MQI:  130%.   Meat score:  133%   Fat score:  128%

Overall score 2004:  86.5     2005:  85.5

Color Inheritance: Throttur is heterozygous white, carrying black and moorit color genes.   So, Throttur will produce lambs of all colors, but not likely spotted.

Genotypic analysis v / scrapie infection: Neutral