Meat
Merino Precoz
B tier
Merino Precoz is a French early-maturing Merino-derived meat type selected for faster growth and better conformation than traditional fine-wool Merinos while keeping white-faced wool-sheep character. It serves intensive and semi-intensive French systems needing both wool income and heavier lambs. Lamb is pale and mild with improved loin depth versus pure fine Merino—suited to French butchery cuts and controlled indoor finishing. Flavour stays refined; producers balance concentrate use against the breed’s pastoral roots for consistent retail quality.
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History
French breeders selected early-maturing Merino lines for improved meat yield.
Official programmes promoted Merino Precoz in mixed wool-meat regions.
Performance recording refined growth traits for commercial lamb turnoff.
The type remained a specialised French option beside continental terminal sires.