2025-778 Sheep Genotyping Services

Signet Breeding Services is the part of AHDB responsible for delivering the UK’s national genetic evaluations to sheep producers. Signet delivers three mixed breed genetic evaluations to the sheep industry, one for terminal sire breeds, one for lowland maternal breeds and one for hill breeds. Our terminal sire and hill evaluations utilise genomic information that has been provided to AHDB from a variety of different sources using a range of chip types. Genomic approaches are rapidly being developed for our lowland...