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You're not trying to breed a genome — you're trying to breed a phenotype. The goal is animals that combine the right genes with the right growing conditions to produce the most valuable outcome for your operation. Sapien helps you measure that and move towards it every season.
Once your breeding objectives are set, the job is to make sure every season moves you closer to them. Sapien is designed to make that process accurate and efficient at the crush.
- Manage AI joins at the crush — individual animal identification ensures the right semen goes to the right animal
- Identify and record successful natural joins against individual animals
- TSU sampling and results recorded per animal with barcode reader support — every sample matched to the right animal without cumbersome manual entry
- If you're registering animals with your breed society, Sapien makes the process straightforward
EBVs describe genetic potential. Phenotypes describe what actually happened. Sapien lets you capture the traits present on the ground to inform EBVs for your breeding herd and measure how close your operation is getting to its ideal.
- Capture phenotypic traits at the crush — growth, carcase, fleece, temperament, and structural traits as relevant to your programme
- Link trait data back to sire and dam records to inform EBV accuracy
- Track the gap between genetic potential and expressed performance — the signal that tells you whether management or genetics needs attention
- Animal cards carry the full ancestry picture so breeding decisions are made with complete context
The breeding decisions that will shape your herd in five years need to be made on the best available evidence. Sapien's dashboards let you cut performance data by sire, dam, bloodline, or sire's sire to find the patterns worth acting on.
- Analyse carcase results by sire, dam, bloodline, or sire's sire
- Identify which genetic lines are delivering the most consistent growth, carcase, carcase, and reproductive performance in your environment
- Find the trends with the biggest impact and let those drive next season's breeding decisions
- Compare genetic performance across different management groups to separate genetic signal from management noise
The biggest effect with collecting the information has been a more fertile, younger herd, because now we know what they are. We needed to measure our performance if we were going to improve it.