Data driven sheep breeding at Hannaton with Jonno Hicks
Episode Ep 293 40 min 37s

Data driven sheep breeding at Hannaton with Jonno Hicks

From Head Shepherd Mark Ferguson
What's the difference between a sheep that looks "right" and a sheep that breeds "right"? Jonno Hicks from Hannaton Poll Merinos and White Suffolks, reckons he's finally found the answer. In this week's episode, Jonno talks through his shift from visual assessment to genomics and data-driven breeding, and why the first years weren't the easiest- despite employing a "guy in New Zealand he heard on a podcast". At Hannaton, they now record fleece attributes, carcass traits, structural trai...

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