Skintagain
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Their lack of meat and fat doesn’t help eitherI wonder if they've bred too much wool off the swaledale now, not really wool now, it's more hair
Their lack of meat and fat doesn’t help eitherI wonder if they've bred too much wool off the swaledale now, not really wool now, it's more hair
Might have more meat and fat if they had more woolTheir lack of meat and fat doesn’t help either
Never been keen on Swaledales as they look puny in comparison to our larger Scotch Blackface, all are bred pure & all lambs sold fat.Their lack of meat and fat doesn’t help either
To be fair thats whats needed here , this place thrives in warm rain . Cold dry is useless here.Is that with "warm" rain instead of cold rain ?
I dont normally shear yows til july to be honest .You are very low then. We could get away with shearing late may on some away ground but often wait until early/mid June that will be 850ft
a lot of our ewes are turned out with lambs in March April at 1200’ they wouldn’t thank me for hacking their fleeces off until late June
Never fancied breeding cheviot mules ?Might have more meat and fat if they had more wool
Modern Swales are small and very fine. But pound for pound they have a lot of lambs nowadays milk well and rear big lambs but they are now very hungry without the food they don’t perform imoNever been keen on Swaledales as they look puny in comparison to our larger Scotch Blackface, all are bred pure & all lambs sold fat.
It would take me till august to get the courage to do RomneysI dont normally shear yows til july to be honest .
I think he’s gunna try some this yearNever fancied breeding cheviot mules ?
They sort the shearers from the clippers for sure , last few years i have had some very good you gIt would take me till august to get the courage to do Romneys
Wouldn't be many hill sheep ready here either in May.I was always told a sheep would take no hurt being shorn if she was ready
There isn’t many ready in May up country
Modern Swales are small and very fine. But pound for pound they have a lot of lambs nowadays milk well and rear big lambs but they are now very hungry without the food they don’t perform imo
Would you take a mule over one of your trial shedders?Sounds like an ideal ewe to cross with a BFL…
If a farmer asked me to shear his ewes in May up here I would tell him to do one!!!!Farms around 650 ft, sheep on moor around 1,400 ft, obviously we are in the South West so milder than the likes of Scotland but people tend to do what they have always done. By the time ours go back onto the moor at the end of Nov after tupping they have a full fleece & in our case winter very well on the moors whatever the weather.
They talk about cruelty to sheep but nobody ever mentions how cruel it is on the shearers shearing sheep early too !Be a cruelty job here if you sheared hill blackies first week of May. Cruelty for sheep and shearer that is.
Would you take a mule over one of your trial shedders?
A lot would only have just started lambing then.Be a cruelty job here if you sheared hill blackies first week of May. Cruelty for sheep and shearer that is.
Might have to try something else someday but best thing about swale is you can keep twice as many to the acre as the bigger sheepNever fancied breeding cheviot mules ?
What do you meanWhen will you start creep feeding the lambs?