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McCutcheon Ovine Genetics

Grand Valley, Ontario

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Dam	Sire	Embryos Remaining	Price $ Canadian	Catalogue
Embryos are available from 36 elite donor ewes	Eight sires have been used across the donors	280 in the group	300	E RI 0001

McCutcheon Ovine Genetics is Canada's largest and most successful breeder of the prolific Rideau breed. The flock comprises 400 registered breeding ewes with many genetic lines. The flock is on an accelerated breeding program and has an intensive data collection and selection program. The Rideau has proven to be one of the best milking breeds in North America.

This is a large supply of some of the best prolific genetics available anywhere. These embryos are approved for export to Canada, the US and Europe. Approvals are possible for all of the Americas and other countries as well.

Rideau sheep are a prolific, maternal line of sheep designed to raise the lambs that they produce. The Rideau is a Canadian breed that supplies a high economic return to the sheep producer. The primary contributing breeds to this new breed are: Finnish Landrace - 39.9%, Suffolk - 19.5%, East Friesian - 14.5%, Shropshire - 8.9% and Polled Dorset - 8.4%. Rideaus have many lambs, will breed out of season, will continually produce on an accelerated lambing system, are easy lambers and have enough milk to easily raise triplets. Several ewes in the flock have raised quadruplets and one ewe has successfully raised quintuplets. Lambs are vigorous and growthy with moderate muscling. Average flock performance for the flock is shown in the table:

The flock is bred to lamb on the cornell star system with 5 lambings a year and each ewe has the opportunity to lamb 5 times in 3 years. The flock is still increasing in size. Once the flock size is static we expect to be able to easily achieve an average lambing interval of 280 days and 2.1 lambs marketed per ewe per lambing. Individual ewes have produced up to 9 lambs in one year and 35 lambs in a lifetime so far.

* Note: These values are not actually zero. There were about 5 or 6 bottle lambs raised each year

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Breed: East Friesian

Axel Meister and Chris Buschbeck WoolDrift Farm
Markdale, Ontario

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Dam	Sire	Embryos Remaining	Price	Catalogue Number
AMX 050F	O105-0018	14	$300	E EF 001
AMX 025E	O105-0018	8	$300	E EF 002
AMX 001E	O105-0018	4	$300	E EF 003

WoolDrift is one of Canada's first and leading dairy sheep enterprises. These dams are British stock. They produced 1.4, 1.8 and 1.5 kg/d in their most recent lactation. Sire is rated as fat and protein improver. His dam produced 923 kg. milk in 230 d lactation with 6.02% fat and 5% protein in her second lactation.

In addition to the frozen embryos listed, fresh embryos can be made available.

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Breed: Charollais

Rebecca and Ted Skinner Cedar Creek Farm Bowmanville, Ontario

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Dam	Sire	Embryos Remaining	Price	Catalogue Number
CC 113F	CC 81E	2	$400	E HR 001
CC 80E	TRO 17D	4	$400	E HR 002

Cedar Creek Farm obtained genetics from the first Charollais embryos to be imported from the UK. They have since imported new genetics that include five lines from three of the UK's more prominent breeders.

All animals are on the Ontario Sheep Flock Improvement Program and have seven-trait EPDs. All 1997 lambs have data on backfat, loin muscle depth and area.

Breed: East Fresian

Rinus van Doorn Axel, Holland

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Dam	Sire	Embryos Remaining	Price	Catalogue Number
RIB 213F	Upperten 24075 - U420	16	$350	E EF 006
RBC 247F	Upperten 24075 - U420	7	$350	E EF 007
RIB 213F	Upperten 0221-0137	9	$350	E EF 008
RBC 247F	Upperten 0221-0137	10	$350	E EF 009
RBC 261 F	Upper ten 24075-U425	7	$350	E EF 010
RBC 213F	Upper ten 0221-0137	9	$350	E EF 011
RBC 261F	Upper ten 24675-U418	4	$350	E EF 012
RBC 213F	Upper ten 24075 - U420	8	$350	E EF 013
RBC 247F	Upper ten 24075 - U420	5	$350	E EF 014
RBC 261F	Upper ten 0221-T0291	6	$350	E EF 015
RBC 280F	Upper ten 0221-T0291	3	$350	E EF 016
RBC 213F	Upper ten 24075-V200	7	$350	E EF 017

These donor ewes were imported as embryos from Holland. They were selected from the elite group of Dutch Friesians. They were bred with imported Dutch semen. Upperten combines superior Dutch milk yield and fat and protein improving bloodlines. His dam, in her second lactation produced 1099 kg of milk in 294 days with 5.3% fat and 4.95% protein, his granddame produced 923 kg in 230 days with 6.02% fat and 5% protein.

In addition to the embryos listed above, we have produced 16 embryos from in vitro fertilization, from the ovaries of the donors recovered at slaughter.

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