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Place of Origin | United Kingdom |
Origin | The Meatlinc is a British breed, in the Terminal Sire category, developed from a breeding program originated by Henry Fell in the early 1960’s.Originally a mixture of chosen individuals from five breeds, two British and three French, the Meatlinc evolved as a result of many years of rigorous and disciplined selection based on performance recording carried out under strictly commercial conditions. |
Purpose | Meat |
Characteristics | The breed was closed to any further use of outside genetic material in 1975. It is thus a genuine pure breed with recognizable uniformity. It is amongst the biggest of the British breeds, a mature ram weighing 140 kg (over 300 lbs). |