Meet Our Icelandic Sheep - AI Sire Descriptions

Myrkvi 10-905 from Brunastadir farm, Fljot, North-Iceland

Conformation scoring: 2010-52-112-31/3,5/4,0-8,0-8,0-8,5-8,5-8,5-18,0-8,0-8,0-8,5=84,0 poiints

Description: Black with short and good looking head, rather coarse and narrowly curved horns. Broad neck, rather coarse shoulders but good rib shaping. Strong and broad back. Rounded and muscular loin. Excellent gigot muscling. Strong feets. Vigorous ram with good overall harmony.

Wool: Very dark and even black color. Wool yield above average with thick thel and medium long, curly and medium fine thog.

Results: Myrkvi 10-905 is now beginning his second year as an AI ram after being selected on the basis of good results at his birth farm. He was used a lot last winter and a big number of his progenies were evaluated this autumn. Amongst them were quite a lot of lambs with very good conformation, especially regarding back, loin and gigot muscling. One year old son of Myrkvi performed very well in a progeny testing this autumn at Myrkvi‘s birth farm. Myrkvi is considered to be a very good breeding ram.

BLUP:   Carcass grading  112  /  Fat grading  118/   MQI   115

Myrkvi‘s breeding indexes tell us that he will be a very good father to daughters, both regarding prolificay and milking abilities.   Prolficacy   106  /  Milking abilities   105

Color inheritance: Myrkvi is black and carries both moorit and spotted.

Scrapie resistance genotype: Neutral.

 

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Carcass grading	112
Fat grading	118
Meat qualities
Index	115
Daugthers
Prolificacy	105
Milking abilities	109
Scrapie resistance genotype: NEUTRAL
Colour inheritance: Myrkvi is solid black. Carries spotted and moorit.

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