Key Points:
- Tough lambs, extremely hardy
- Well muscled
- Durable, fertile ewes
- Fecund hoggets
- Easy-care sheep
- Improving facial eczema tolerance
General Information:
- SIL Recorded; NZ Animal Breeding Trust (Bureau)
- Lambs born small, without difficulty
- Lambs bond strongly with their mothers
- Growth rate, up to 400 grams per day
- White, bulky wool approximately 34 micron
- Lambs have medium to good muscling
- Many prime lambs at weaning
- Lambs maybe grown to very heavy weights
- Efficient grazers and converters of grass to meat
- Easy care sheep. Longevity
- High live weight to carcase weight yield
- Very pleasant meat to eat
- Reasonable to good parasite resistance
- Scanning percentage-170% plus, with few triplets
Comments: Ewes mature late and are still growing as four tooths. This breed is used throughout the whole of New Zealand. Despite a major drought in 2007, OSRS experienced unaltered conception rates in Finn Texel ewes.
