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In my opinion Waidale 5-05 is an exceptional ram. I used him as a ram lamb, he is now into his fourth mating, he is my best breeding ram by quite a bit, I keep in the vicinity of 50% of his progeny as opposed to a figure of around 30% or so for most my other Romney sires.
As a lamb he was quite simply outstanding. His actual growth rate from when he was weighed just after weaning for another 12 weeks was actually 450 grams a day. This is of course impressive, but what is even more impressive is that he passed this on to his progeny, they too generally have very good growth rates.
Furthermore, there has been major shift away from very big Romneys in New Zealand to a small or medium sized Romney, 5 has been amazing in this regard as while he has high growth rates, ie they mature quickly, they don’t end up real big sheep, they are on the whole good medium sized sheep.
His SIl figures back up what I actually see in his progeny, namely growth rates, maturity, meat etc, on top of that, as you can see from his pedigree and sil figures he has a good fertility background. You will also note from his pedigree that he has a footrot score of 1,1, which is the best you can get.
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