Meet Our Icelandic Sheep - Previous Breeding Rams
Drifandi: Black and horned with very good looking head. Muscular shoulders, wide chest and very good rib shape. Very well muscled back. Broad and well muscled rump. Excellent leg muscling. Very good looking and muscular ram.Wool quantity well above average and thick fleece. Little bit of grey hairs in the fleece. Curly, medium fine and even thog. Drifandi is a grandson of AI sires At and Grani and also has Kveikur in his pedigree.
Drifandi was bought for AI in 2012 after progeny testing at Hestur experimental farm resulting in very good eye muscle depth and shape as well as good dressing weight. His progenies have very good meat qualities, especially leanness as the sheep from Hestur is known for.
His daughters abilities are yet to be discovered but his indexes are promising concerning prolificacy and milking abilities.
Drifandi was bought for AI in 2012 after progeny testing at Hestur experimental farm resulting in very good eye muscle depth and shape as well as good dressing weight. His progenies have very good meat qualities, especially leanness as the sheep from Hestur is known for.
His daughters abilities are yet to be discovered but his indexes are promising concerning prolificacy and milking abilities.
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Carcass grading |
117 |
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Fat grading |
 106 |
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Meat qualities |
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Index |
112 |
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Daugthers |
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Prolificacy |
113 | ||
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="110"> Milking abilities |
103 | ||
Scrapie resistance genotype: Neutral |
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Colour inheritance: Drifandi is homozygous black. Carries neither moorit or spotted. |
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Score 2011: 86,5 points
Ultrasound 2011: Eye muscle thickness 30 mm, back fat thickness 1,9 mm, muscle shape 4,0. (S)
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