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Evaluating Balance and Style

This picture shows a "nasty" lamb that is very unbalanced. This lamb is heavy fronted, deep and low necked, broken topped, too heavy through the middle, steep rumped, and broken topped. If this "nasty" lamb were cut in half, everything would fall towards the front.

This lamb in this picture is straight and stylish, but lacks balance because it has the wrong Christmas tree shape when viewed from the side. This lamb is heavier in the front half than in the rear half.

The lamb shown here has excellent balance with the volume of weight in the loin and leg. The lines indicate the correct Christmas tree shape this lamb possesses when viewed from the side.