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So if you use a Texel, the lambs will be 5/8 and will (should) look very good, as it is almost 3/4. With Lleyn being dominant in the ewes, they should be easy enough lambing... go with the Texel
So if you use a Texel, the lambs will be 5/8 and will (should) look very good, as it is almost 3/4. With Lleyn being dominant in the ewes, they should be easy enough lambing... go with the Texel
But a Texel ewe crosses very well to a Charollais ram, whilst avoiding the hard pull associated with too much Texel blood........and might even get lambs that don't suffer from 'Texel Stall' in mid-summer. Just saying.
As posted above, @Green farmer wouldn't go far wrong with either. Charollais crosses will be faster to market, but Texel crosses would leave you a female lamb with potentially an extra market.
You've turned them out already? Loving an outdoor nithsdale February lambing ! Just proving how hardy these Suffolks can be! Well done chairman elect !
11 weeks since I last posted on here
Not much to report, really. Ewes were all dosed with Triclabendezole and injected with Dectomax the week after the last pictures (last week of September). Tups are still in with the ewes but very quiet, so that's a good sign
They will be in this coming week for a Closantlel dose, and a spray of Crovect as there appears to be lice bothering them, and for @Ysgythan favourite past time of mine, as I pull off the tups
There's just 150 fat lambs left (mostly all hill lambs), with 70-80 planned to be leaving in the next 10 days to fortnight and hopefully the rest will shift by mid-January.
Like every other part of the country, the rain here has been awful since June. November on the whole has been a break, with plenty frosty mornings. Things have certainly dried up.
Here's a picture for pictures sakes feeding the ewe hoggs this morning. They are on 1/2lb just to keep them coming forward... they looked very poor in October, the weather had taken its toll and the 'wintering' ground has much less grass so pickings is short. They've picked up a lot and with this dry weather. Long may these frosty days continue
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Nice headgear.. so as not to "out" yourself.....
I thought he’d joined Islam and it was a burkaNice headgear.. so as not to "out" yourself.....
I thought he’d joined Islam and it was a burka
I thought he’d joined Islam and it was a burka
I thought he’d joined Islam and it was a burka
Why waste diesel chopping up bales ? When you can just drop them in a ring feeder. Can see the logic if doing tmr mix but just chopping it up to put it on the floor doesn't make sense to me. We had similar feed trough to yours and cattle nosed silage over the side and made work forking it back in again.
Same arrangement as our neighbour has on his sheep shed. His panels are at a steeper angle but I suppose he doesn't need as much 'trough volume' for sheep.Panels are in at roughly 45degrees and sat onto concrete blocks