By now I’m sure that many of you reading this blog know that we bred and raised a ram we called Omega back in 1991. Since that point in time we have kept the influence of Omega genetics alive in our flock through the power of linebreeding. Omega was a very unique ram in that he sired awesome show lambs as attested by the track record of his progeny in the show ring. Omega’s influence has also worked extremely well for our customers through the many rams and females seeing service in their flocks.
Omega genetic derivatives were responsible for 3 Grand Champion carcasses at the prestigious AKSARBEN Livestock Exposition and 2 Grand Champion carcasses at the National Western Stock Show.
Omega’s influence continues today through the availability of his semen. Some Omega semen was used by Jim Jensen and Rex Galloway of Utah recently. Offspring of this semen were exhibited a county fair in Utah under a very educational format with a certain % of the placing based on live evaluation in the show ring with the largest % of the placing determined by harvesting the same lambs. The carcasses of these lambs are then seperated into wholesale cuts such as rib, loin, leg etc. and each of these wholesale cuts are weighed. The weight of these cuts are then multiplied by the dollars of value that legs, etc. are selling for on the wholesale market that day. The overall champion of the show is determined by combining the live placing score with the harvested value score for an overall champion. I am pleased to share that the lambs out of the Omega genetics won the contest hands down over many of the genetics from well-known flocks from Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, etc. Omega’s influence truly does live on in this very educational contest for the youth of the area interested in real-world sheep production.
Fred Knop