Hi Chris, I am currently testing 57 sheep at codon 171 for QR or RR scrapies resistance. The breakdown is 12 Herd Sires, 9 replacement ram lambs, 24 ewes, and 12 ewe lambs. I am just dieing to get the results in the mail! I plan on doing more testing on my spring 2006 born lambs later this year. I have been working towards RR sheep since 2003.
All the sheep I am testing are 50% or more Barbados Blackbelly. I don't know of anyone who has a 100% Barbados Blackbelly RR ram! If someone does have such an animal please let me know!!!! Mark Wintermute -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Buchanan Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:50 AM To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Subject: [blackbelly] RR and QR Hello all, While reading some stuff on hairsheep, I ran across some Katahdin people talking about their sheep being RR and QR and QQ. I read on to discover these letters have something to do with the sheep's genetic resistance to getting scrapie if exposed? Not really sure on that... but apparently RR is the most desired. ANYWAY, have these tests been run on any Barbados sheep that anyone is aware of? It would be interesting to see how our sheep stack up. Thanks Chris B _______________________________________________ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.in fo _______________________________________________ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info
