PREMIUM Texels demonstrated their ability to add value to their progeny across a range of farms and systems in the RamCompare project Texel sires have demonstrated the breed’s ability to add value to flocks across the UK in the latest results from AHDB’s RamCompare project, with the breed providing 11 of the top 15 rams for carcase merit over the project’s duration from 2016-2020. Seven of the top 10 rams for carcase merit across the project’s timespan were Texels as were seven of the top 10 of the rams used in the project’s latest research season, 2020. Designed to provide an overarching index showing the genetic merit of sires used in commercial flocks, the carcase merit index combines EBVs for carcase weight, carcase conformation and carcase fat class, explains Texel Sheep Society chief executive John Yates.