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More importantly having lively lambs which get straight up and follow the dam trains the young ewe to be a better mother.
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& Della Jones Gippfinn Finnsheep Stud 130 Jeeralang West Rd Morwell 3840 Australia         CONTACT US   Email:  stevendella@finnsheep.com     Telephone:   (From Australia) 0351223328 (Internationally) 613 51223328 Mobile:  (From Australia)   0427041253   (Internationally) 61427041253     This many people have visited this site:        
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It is one of several North European short-tailed Landrace breeds.
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This may be the future for the Australian prime lamb industry too, (See: FINNSHEEP LINKS ).
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"In spite of having the lightest birth weight the Merino-Finn lambs grew comparatively faster than all other breeding groups....Merino-Finn wool was more like Merino than all of the other crossbred wools...The Finn-Merino crosses show favourable heterosis in fertility, early maturity, survival rate, and some fleece characteristics...Merino-Finns had the best crossbred carcasses both at first cross (yield 43.4%) & second cross (yield 57.8%)...Merino-Finns lambed @ 181.4% and Border Leicester-Merinos @137.2%... fertility in the Merino can be effectively increased in a first cross to a level which might be achieved after more than 50 years of selective breeding.
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This cross's heavy weight lambs produced from a terminal ram (in New Zealand Suffolk-Oxford Down and Dorper cross rams are a rising choices) have to be seen to be believed...
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Finnish-Landrace sheep: Definition from Answers.com

» More Answer these Why is a sheep called a sheep?
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Most cases are in purebred Finnish-Landrace lambs but cases have occurred in crossbred lambs.
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Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community: 0;"> Copyrights: Cite Saunders Veterinary Dictionary Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition.
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Browse: Unanswered questions | Most-recent questions | Reference library Featured Videos: Top View more Animal Life videos Related topics List of sheep breeds Related answers Is it a Herd or sheep or flock of sheep?
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Finnish Landrace

Fleeces have a numerical count of 50 to 60 or 23.5 to 31.0 microns with a staple length of 7.5-15 cm Since their arrival in North America, Finnish Landrace rams have been used extensively in crossbreeding programs to produce a prolific crossbred ewe.
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The breed is considered to be several hundred years old, descending from the mouflon that live in the wild on Sardinia and Corsica.
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Finnish Landrace Alberta Sheep Breeders' Association "Finnsheep" or  "Finnish Landrace" Best know for its exceptional prolificacy, with purebred ewes producing 3-5 lambs per lambing.
www.albertasheepbreeders.ca/Finnish_Landrace.html

Finnsheep (Finnish Landrace) - NEW ZEALAND RARE BREEDS

FINNSHEEP New Zealand Rare Breeds Website: www.rarebreeds.co.nz – Information » Home » Breeds » Directory » About » News » Webmart » Projects » Gene Bank » Links » Join » Contact     STATUS New Zealand: Rare Importation: 1990 Finnsheep (Finnish Landrace) A Rare Breed of Finnish Origin Finnsheep   (Photo courtesy Daniel Wheeler) Finnsheep hoggets, showing the naturally short tail       The Finnsheep or Finnish Landrace first arrived in New Zealand in the 1980s and was released from quarantine in 1990.
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It is characterized by its high fertility (lambing rates frequently exceed 200 percent) and its white, lustrous, bulky fleece.
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      A few thousand of this breed can today be found throughout New Zealand.
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American Finnsheep Breeders' Association, Inc.

Recently, Finnsheep have been discovered by American handspinners for the color, luster and soft hand of their wool.
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Box 51, 222 Main St Milo, IA 50166 641-942-6402         fax 641-942-6502       asregistry@yahoo.com Search this site or the web: http:/ /WWW FBA Website Copyright 2005-2012.
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It also serves as a communication link among its members and others interested in the breed.
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This entire website and its contents are the property of the Finnsheep Breeders' Assocation and may not be used without the written permission of the FBA.
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Finnish Landrace - EastLink -- User Web Pages

Please contact Greg Marshall at 902-848-6013 or by email at jgmarshall@eastlink.ca If you are interested in learning more about Finnsheep please visit the Canadian Finnsheep Breeders Association homepage.
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Our flock consists of close to 30 registered ewes as well as 3 rams from different bloodlines.
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MANAGEMENT TIPS - my connected community (mc2)

Heterosis (hybrid vigour) will be expressed in the mothering ability and fertility of the two-way crossbred dam, and in the growth rate of the three- way crossbred Progeny.
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The Finnish Landrace breed has evolved with a high ability to rear Multiple lambs.
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Increasing the proportion of cattle on the farm has been the most recommended option to get the significant increases in profitability required to sustain the farm operation.
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Implementing a pre-lamb annual shear policy will reduce shearing costs and improve the length of the fleece.
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As lambing date approaches the ewe intakes should be increased up to 2.0 to 2.5 kg DM/d/ewe.
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Prolific Breeder Barren ewes uncommon, three to four lambs born per ewe.2.
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Finnish Landrace Sheep - Our Icelandic Sheep Farm

Finnish Landrace Sheep Finnish Landrace Sheep Home Around the Farm Finnish Landrace Sheep Pygmy Goats Contact Us Icelandic Sheep Finn Sheep   Our Finnsheep     Kyliki (above) white ewe lamb Kyliki  (Eldorado 23603)Kyliki is a white twin ewe. She has a nice straight back, and overall nice form.  She comes from a prolific line.
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Maatiainen ry

The Finnish landrace Association was established in 1989 and presently has over 1700 members.
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Members collect the seed of old landraces of ornamental and useful plants, as well as wild plants.
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During the course of their long history landraces have been modified by the complex interactions between natural evolution and human cultivation.
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This year our trip abroad takes us to Bulgaria, where our participants look forward to acquainting themselves with local people and their landscapes as well as with plants and animal landraces.
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This gives landraces special significance in defining local identity and a sense of history.
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The term landrace is also used for varieties or forms that have been bred on the basis of local populations as opposed to the products of of modern intensive, commercial breeding.
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REFERENCES - finnsheep.com

Onset of puberty and oestrus activity in Galway, Finnish Landrace and Finn- cross ewe lambs during their first breeding season.
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Carcass traits of lambs produced by crossbred dams of Finnsheep, Dorset and Rambouillet breeding and slaughtered at two weights.
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A relationship between the duration of oestrus, ovulation rate and litter size of sheep.
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Reproductive performance of crossbred ewes of Finnsheep, Dorset and Rambouillet breeding when lambing in the fall.
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Hinkelman, L.A., Bradford, G.E., Pollack, E.J., Anderson, G.B.
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Summer lambing performance of crossbred ewes of Finnsheep, Dorset and Rambouillet breeding when mated to purebred of crossbred rams.
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Red Tractor Ranch

HOME         Red Tractor Ranch San Martin, Ca We are a small family farm in Central California.
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We currently specialize in Finnish Landrace sheep and free range poultry.
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Genetic associations of prolificacy with performance, carcass ...

That raises question about the mothering ability of LR sows.
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They found an unfavorable genetic correlation between direct (piglet) and maternal (sow) effects in proportion of live pigs born that were alive at 3 wk in a Finnish Landrace population (−0.41 ± 0.09), whereas the corresponding correlation was close to zero in a Finnish Large White population (0.16 ± 0.50).
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For a more detailed description of prolificacy traits, see Serenius et al. (2004).
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For example, Rothschild and Bidanel (1998) pointed out that few genetic correlation estimates between reproductive and meat quality traits are available in the literature.
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Based on these moderate estimates and general tendency of signs of the estimates, it seems that meat quality may be favorably correlated with AFF and PM, whereas the correlation between meat quality and TNB seems unfavorable.
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Selection potential of different prolificacy traits in the Finnish Landrace and Large White populations.
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finn - Website » Page 1 of 7

Most ewes lamb with ease if in good condition making the shepherd's job easier.
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Medium Brown Fawn Golden Brown Chocolate Steel Grey True Black Ice Grey (Kainuu) Bright White Iridescent Cream News and Views Sample Fleeces from our Flock Finnish Landrace Sheep
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Top-quality Finn wool that is properly prepared brings premium prices in the hand-spinning and fiber arts markets and is well worth the investment.
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A quality ewe will be able to raise her lambs to industry acceptable weaning weights for her breed without intensive supplementation of the lambs by the manager.
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Wool is one of the characterisitcs that make Finnsheep so very versatile and should be a prime consideration when selecting stock.
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Their short tails have a hair tip and are not docked.
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The farm's guide

After the Second World War, the number of goats declined rapidly and a group of enthusiastic breeders collected some of the remaining animals.
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Charateristics of the breed include a long hair coat and well developed udders.
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The Erzgebirg is red-brown with a black dorsal stripe, belly, legs and face mask.
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Unfortunately in the following years, many animals were used as recipients for embryo transfer of Angora or Boer goats or for crossbreeding with Boer for meat production.
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They are a large size and are black in color.
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Read the rest of this entry » Posted in Domestic Animal | Tags: black dorsal, breed is found, face mask, kept primarily, Livestock Breeds | No Comments » Dutch Landrace November 11, 2009 | Author admin Also Known By: Nederlandse Landgeit The Dutch Landrace is original goat race of the Netherlands and shows great similarity with other northwest European landraces as found in Scandinavia or the feral goats in Great Britain.
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New Zealand Sheepbreeders' Association - Finnsheep

Being fine-woolled it may eventually become recognised as a useful dual-purpose breed.
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The ewe's chief concern is with her lambs no matter the number.At the Southland Wool Breeds lamb competition held at the Makarewa Freezing Works, a line of NZ Finn/Border Leicester X lambs were chosen from a small flock of 45 ram lambs.
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(Ref MAFTech)The NZ Finn is sexually precocious and will 'cycle' for several months longer than our standard British breeds.
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In Finland there has been a rigorous selection programme for live weight over the past twenty years.
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  Bodyweight Wool Ewes: 50-70 kg (110-154 lb) Rams: 66-93 kg (145-205 lb) Very white, lustrous wool.
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Fleece has good colour and bulk.Fibre diameter: About 27 microns.Staple length: 75-125 mm (3-5 inches).Fleece weight: Range 2.5-4 kg (5.5- eczema..
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