Swaledale Ewes @ What Breed of Ram?
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can’t be doing with top knots.
They won't be around long enough for it to be a problem
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
that’s what you think
everybody on here would get lost once they passed Builth
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
It's the getting them gone is the problem... if you sell live!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
There's an awful lot (too many) Texels with bad legs these days
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- Fife
In my case its budget 100%
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
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
- Location
- North Antrim
I very much doubt that you are buying a scrap tup just because it's cheap.
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- Fife
For a terminal to go over draft ewes? Yeah I am. Although that's on farm cost, so haulage is part of the budget.
- Location
- North Antrim
The charollais you put up pics of were not scrap, quite the opposite.
- Location
- Fife
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.
That’s a sire purchase cost of 86p per lamb, ignoring any salvage value from the tups.
This is what I mean by budget.
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- Fife
It was pretty tongue in cheek. My budget varies depending on the job.
I don’t blink at spending money on maternal tups I want @Woolless.
selection was figures/key traits, then visual inspection (including temperament). The best looking animal in the world is no use to me at all if he lacks the key traits I’m after.
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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.
yes. Never buy a tup without walking him out.
ah yes we’ll that’s the first and last question...
- Location
- North Antrim
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.