Hope you`ve remembered yer parachute...Whilst I’m on my high horse,
Hope you`ve remembered yer parachute...Whilst I’m on my high horse,
Did same for first time this year, those not good enough for pure or crossing or had been lame.
Lambs are brown faced, few with wooly top knots, not as much as a Hampshire.
Been run on rough ground with fell twins, mid April born, prob all go in run up to xmas
They won't be around long enough for it to be a problemcan’t be doing with top knots.
They won't be around long enough for it to be a problem
I’ll tell @Henarar on you
They won't be around long enough for it to be a problem
Whilst I’m on my high horse, there’s lot of Texel blood in Beltex, the ones that can walk anyway...
In my case its budget 100%in my case , research 75% , figures 15% , hand/ eye 10%
youu cant buy on budget , thats how you get suckered into that fed trimmed one in mart , that said have never paid more than a v good commercial price for any stock ram since the 80s (inc my french ones ) , theres plenty of commercial rams for sensible money thats where the the research comes in . Find your seller first , market chatter will give you best inclinationIn my case its budget 100%
I very much doubt that you are buying a scrap tup just because it's cheap.In my case its budget 100%
I very much doubt that you are buying a scrap tup just because it's cheap.
The charollais you put up pics of were not scrap, quite the opposite.For a terminal to go over draft ewes? Yeah I am. Although that's on farm cost, so haulage is part of the budget.
No they weren’t. I was very happy with them, especially at £185/hd. I think I should get an average of 2 years from each, with each tup serving 100 ewes. At 10% empty and 120% lambing, each tup should sire 216 lambs over his working life.The charollais you put up pics of were not scrap, quite the opposite.
youu cant buy on budget , thats how you get suckered into that fed trimmed one in mart , that said have never paid more than a v good commercial price for any stock ram since the 80s (inc my french ones ) , theres plenty of commercial rams for sensible money thats where the the research comes in . Find your seller first , market chatter will give you best inclination
I’ve never had one of his tups. As you say they used to be reasonable when he sold them at Penrith or Cockermouth but they seem a hell of a trade now. If they work and aren’t inclined to die then that’s the reason.We’ve had Slater tups for 20 years now. Between 1 & 4 per year depending on requirements. We’ve never had one melt and die on us. He feeds beet pulp, not high protein concentrates. Unlike texels we buy in the sales of which 1 in 4 will shrivel away too nothing in the first year! My main issue with Slater tups is they are total tw*ts for fighting!! I’ve had more than one pasting from a slater tup. Bloody things.
I’ve tried pretty much every combination he does, all for various different ewes and jobs. Apart from the price (everyone else has clicked on he’s got the goods now, look at his production sale averages) I couldn’t be more satisfied.
There's an awful lot (too many) Texels with bad legs these days
In my case its budget 100%
The charollais you put up pics of were not scrap, quite the opposite.
Let's do, they had the body, skin and fleshing, the aesthetics after that are a secondary matter in fat or store lamb production. Breeding stock is a different matter.that’s a matter of op...no not going there again [emoji38]