Welcome on the page about the flock of Jan and Reinard Everts. We are young breeders of the age of respectively 22 and 20 years. Jan is employee at a woolcompany and Reinard is a Veterinary student. We are breeding Blue Texel sheep, a colour variant of the 'normal' Texel sheep. On our farm we have also white Texel sheep. We have been a member of the flockbook 'Stamboek Blauwe Texelaars' since 1995.
Dams have to wean 2 lambs yearly and become on average 6 years old easily. Good maternal characteristics are needed. To help us breeding the sheep we want make use of information about the growthrate of the lambs (135-days weight). These weights are corrected for littersize, age of the mother, period of the lambingseason and gender. In 2006 we will also make use of ultrasoon scanning of muscledepth and fatcovering.
This year we have used the very musculed 0799-0767 from two white parents of the Texel breeder H. Hissink from Wijster (Drenthe). This ram is judged with 87 points for his muscles, 87 points for his type, 88 points for his fleece and 86 points for his general appearance (which means 'very well'). Father of this ram, the white Texel 4624-0295 (breeded by ir. H.Th.M. Berentsen, Doornenburg, Holland), is classiefied as Premium Ram. The Prolificacy index of this ram is 109/27 (average is 100, the number 27 is an indication of the reliability with a scale of 0-80).
Besides this ram we have used also the powerful self-breeded ARR/ARR ram 26045-0066 (muscles 86, general appearance 86, height 69 cm). The mother of this ram is judged with 90 points for development (which means 'excellent'), 88 points voor muscles and 88 points for general appearance ('very well'). This ewe got in 4* times 7 lambs, including her litter as a 1-year old ewe. The father of this ram is the ARR/ARR 0043-1697 who was born out of two white parents. Grandfather of 0043-1697 is the with 'Keur' classiefied ram 3938-2600, breeded by the well-known Texel breeder C.A. Commandeur from the island Texel itself. We have also used the three-year old ARR/ARR ram 26053-0037, judged with 88 points for development, 88 points for muscles and 87 points for general appearance ('very well'), breeded by Mr C.D.J. Vethaak. His height is 69 cm. This ram became champion during the show in Gasselte 2003. Our flock is certificied free of the Maedi Visna virus. All our rams and ewes are tested of scrapie. Most of the ewes we use for breeding are ARR/ARQ, some of them are even ARR/ARR. We are trying to elevate the level of ARR/ARR ewes. Due to policy of the Dutch Government it is since 2004 compelled to use ARR/ARR (scrapie-free) rams.
For more information you could call: (+31) (0) 599 23 48 93 or mail: reinardeverts@hotmail.com
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