Not sure where you're heading with this one. If you're after a breeding animal then most of the registered, pedigree flocks I know of will be offering, as I do, top quality animals that are the culmination of years of hard culling, rigorous care and regular infusions of often very expensive quality ram bloodlines. I would never offer for breeding an animal I wouldn't keep myself if I had the room. Anything else goes to our freezer or to market as lamb or store lambs. Sometimes a breed just falls from fashion - think of the way the Border Leicester and Suffolk have waxed then waned over the last few decades. Continentals such as the Charollais, Texel, Rouge and Vendeen are presently popular but for how long? The Southdown was the sire of choice for over a century, fell from fashion, became rare, now I have a waiting list for both ram hire and ewe lambs ....