The establishment of Sheep Genetics provides a platform for standardisation, calculation and use of credible and accurate breeding information across all sectors of the Australian sheep industry.
World's largest sheep genetics database
Sheep Genetics core product is the provision and maintenance of a national database for the calculation of performance breeding values. These breeding values will be released as a single national language, known as Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs).
ASBVs are designed to be used by ram breeders and commercial producers to compare the genetic potential of rams and ewes for a range of industry agreed traits, across flocks, independent of the environment and location.
With performance records on more than two million sheep – one million Merinos and more than one million meat sheep – Sheep Genetics is one of the world’s largest and most powerful sheep genetic information source.