Farm profileStep 3 · Enterprise
Step 3 of the wizard. The sheep enterprise core — flock type, breeding system, ewe retention. Drives every weight downstream.
Identity
Your operation's basics. Used in reports and the dashboard summary.
Sheep enterprise
The breeding system, lambing pattern, and retention shape every sheep weight.
Running more than one enterprise on the same property?
Many farms run a self-replacing flock alongside a terminal-sire program over cull ewes,
or add a wether-trading enterprise. The figures on this step describe your primary
enterprise. To capture and rank a second or third concurrent enterprise (each with its own
breeding system, breed, market, and retention thresholds),
use the Enterprises page
— each enterprise gets its own ranking scope.
Breed type
Wool, terminal, maternal composite, shedding — different breed types have very different trait priorities.
Reference population
Genemap maintains a silent reference of historical animal records used to lift accuracy on every producer's breeding values, expand pedigree depth, and refine variance components.
By default, your animals are silently contributed to this reference, anonymised by hashed identifiers — never displayed back to other producers row-by-row, only used to improve the engine's overall accuracy.
You can opt out at any time. Opting out also revokes any records you've already contributed.
Ready to rank?
Steps 1 and 2 above set location and pasture context. Steps 4–9 below refine costs, supplements, property, objectives, and historical performance. You can rank sheep right now or finish the wizard first — the engine works either way, calibration just gets sharper as you fill more in.
Rank sheep now →
Continue to Step 4 →