What about cull and commercial animals?

What about cull and commercial animals?

The intention of culls and commercials is to encourage complete cohort recording. The data collected from these animals is used in the evaluation to help estimate breeding values for their relatives. However, breeding values of these animals are not reported back to you.  

Important A maximum of 30% of each year drop is permitted to be submitted to Sheep Genetics with cull and commercial tags. Cull animals cannot go on to be a parent (listed in pedigree) Commercial animals can be a dam, however their ID will not be displayed by Sheep Genetics in the pedigree of the lamb.

 

Entering culls and commercials

When you enter data into your software package you need to indicate in the ID which are cull (CU) or commercial (CO) animals.

These IDs have a CU or CO at the start of the tag number (last 6 digits) of their ID.

199999 2020 CU0001

199999 2020 CO0001

It is strongly recommended that animals are not re-tagged as cull or commercials following measurement as there may be other contributing information that is impacted, for example where there is a genotype or carcase data listed against the original ID.

Billing

The per head billing charge is triggered when animals are submitted with a measurement at or beyond the billable age stage. Any animal that is indicated as a cull or commercial through the inclusion of CU or CO in their ID before they reach this billable age stage will not be charged.

The billable age stage for LAMBPLAN is weaning, or any measurement thereafter. The billable age stage for MERINOSELECT is any trait measurement submitted after weaning.