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Breed Benchmark

From autumn 2006 all Scottish Blackface sheep recorded in the UK have been analysed across breed and so are able to be compared directly. This is new and we are one of only a very few breeds able to offer an across breed comparison.

A summary of the 2011“benchmark” is published here. This shows the EBVs for all 7 traits and the overall Index for the top 10% and top 25% of animals born. EBVs published on this site can be compared to these figures and, from now, all Scottish Blackface sheep recorded in the UK will be directly comparable to the benchmark figures.

	8 wk EBV	Mature EBV	Litter EBV	Maternal EBV	Scan Wt EBV	Muscle Depth EBV	Fat Depth EBV	Hill 2 Index
Scheme Top 10%	2.00	6.05	0.19	1.74	4.55	2.00	-0.10	262
Scheme Top 25%	1.58	4.82	0.15	1.38	3.70	1.37	0.00	227

For the full breed benchmark showing the Scheme results for 5%, 10%, 25% and 50% view the

SBF Breeding Evaluation document