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Six sheep systems. One engine.

Wool-primary Merino, dual-purpose maternal, terminal sire slaughter-lamb, shedding sheep, pelt-primary Gotland and Karakul, and dairy sheep — each modelled correctly with the right traits weighted the right way for your enterprise.

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Production systems

Modelled correctly. Not generically.

A wool-primary Merino flock isn't ranked the same way as a terminal-sire slaughter-lamb operation, or a Swedish Gotland pelt-primary flock. Each system carries its own trait emphasis, grading scheme and economic objective.

Wool-primary

Fine-wool Merino

AU, ZA, Patagonia, Uruguay. Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed. Market prices are MLA's Australian indicators.

Drivers: CFW · FD · CV · SS · CC · SL · breech wrinkle
Dual-purpose

Maternal wool + meat

Romney, Coopworth, Corriedale, Border Leicester. NZ pastoral and Australian high-rainfall maternal flocks. Lambs weaned per ewe joined drives the economics — NLW weighted 2×.

Drivers: NLW · maternal worth · wool · longevity · hogget fleece
Terminal sire

Slaughter-lamb terminal

Suffolk, Texel, White Suffolk, Poll Dorset, Hampshire, Charollais, Beltex. Used over maternal ewes for slaughter progeny. Wool zeroed; lean weight + muscle depth weighted heavily.

Drivers: CT-scan lean weight · muscle depth · IMF · GR · (S)EUROP grading
Shedding sheep

Shedding & hair sheep

Dorper, White Dorper, Katahdin, St Croix, Damara. US southern, southern African, tropical regions. Faecal egg count and parasite resistance are first-order — WEC weighted −2× (lower is better).

Drivers: FEC · parasite resistance · maternal · adaptation · growth
Pelt-primary

Gotland · Karakul · Icelandic

Sweden Gotlandsfår, Iceland, Karakul (Namibia, Central Asia). Slaughter at 13–18 kg carcass for premium pelt — pelt revenue can exceed carcass at klass 1. Pälskvalitet 4×, Lockighet 3.5×.

Drivers: Pälskvalitet · Lockighet · Lyster · Färg · pelt curl · carcass-pelt balance
Dairy sheep

Lacaune · East Friesian · Awassi

French Roquefort country, Mediterranean dairy systems. Milk yield drives revenue — weighted 4×. Milk protein 1.8×. Somatic cell count strongly penalised.

Drivers: Milk yield · milk fat · milk protein · SCC · NLW

Mob-based ram allocation, built for sheep.

Cattle mate-allocation logic doesn't fit sheep. Sheep operations run ram:ewe ratios from 1:50 to 1:100, single-sire stud matings alongside multi-sire commercial mobs, and split maternal vs terminal mob mating. Genemap's MAS.1 module handles all of it natively — min-cost-flow optimisation of which ram team goes on which mob, with inbreeding caps, usage caps and maternal/terminal split.

1:50 – 1:100 ratios Single-sire seedstock Multi-sire commercial mobs Maternal vs terminal split Inbreeding control
Why sheep producers choose Genemap

Built for the way sheep are actually bred and sold.

Not a cattle product with sheep tacked on. Sheep economics, sheep evaluations, sheep mating logic, sheep grading — all native.

i

Wool pricing, honestly held

Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed. Market prices are MLA's Australian indicators. The wool maths (micron premium curve) is in the engine and waits on a licensed price source.

ii

18 sheep evaluations registered

AU Sheep Genetics (LAMBPLAN/MERINOSELECT/KIDPLAN), MLP; NZ SIL + nProve; US NSIP; UK Signet + RamCompare; IE Sheep Ireland; FR IDELE; ES MERAGEM; NO Sauekontrollen; IS RML; SE Elitlamm; UY SUL; AR INTA Patagonia; BR GENSOR; CA GenOvis; ZA Logix Sheep. Real percentile bands are integrated for AU Sheep Genetics today; other systems carry source-URL metadata and are flagged "label-only" until upstream tables are ingested.

iii

Pelt-primary support

Pälskvalitet, Lockighet, Lyster, Färg as first-class evaluable traits. No mainstream breeding platform supports pelt economics — Genemap does.

Wool — micron-premium aware

Your micron premium, once licensed.

The fibre-diameter EBV is worth different money at different micron-bracket premia — Genemap's wool maths prices FD / YFD / AFD on the premium curve, not a single average. Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed. The indicators below are the ones that would be used; none is read today.

AWEX EMI + MPGs

🇦🇺 Australia · not licensed
EMI plus 10 micron-specific guides (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 μm). No AWEX feed until the price guides are licensed.

British Wool

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · not read
Auction averages plus per-grade (Welsh Mountain, BFL, Mule, Cheviot, Blackface)

NZ Wool

🇳🇿 New Zealand · not read
Strong wool, fine wool (Merino), lamb wool weighted indicators

ASI USA

🇺🇸 United States · not read
Per-grade clean prices: 80s 18μm fine, 70s 20μm, 64s 22μm, 60s 24μm, 54s 28μm coarse

Genemap for sheep. Set it up in 60 seconds.

Add your country and your town. Pick your production system. Genemap configures your evaluation system, grading scheme, currency and units automatically.

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