- Location
- Cheshire
Sheep breeds why?
- Thread starter Aspiring Peasants
- Start date
Ours except 3s lamb outsideI don’t know about others on here but everyone I know with scotch mules, NCM and even a lot of Welsh mules lamb them all indoors
I lambed 300 mules outside this time and couple of years a go I lambed 400 yearling mules outside (couldn't sell them in 2018), there no problem really, they have no cake and run on stubble with beet trailered across the fields from tupping until march. They are rearing just over 500 NZ Suffolk lambs that will sold as one load straight off the ewes in august.I don’t know about others on here but everyone I know with scotch mules, NCM and even a lot of Welsh mules lamb them all indoors
just when you thought it was sorted...
and isn’t the Charolais a South Down x Leicester originally?
- Location
- West Wales
When did they lamb? My I’ve already had some off my March lambed mules with numbers growing each week
obviously a lot of the posters on here lamb them out etc but I meant in the main I don’t know many who do, saying that apart from the big hill flocks there arnt that many outdoor lambing flocks down here
Quad - Land RoverQuad: Yamaha.
Buggy: Polaris Diesel
Handling Sustem: Rappa,
Pickup: Toyota/Isuzu.
That’s a few questions sorted already
Buggy - Land Rover
Handling system - 1980s original still going
Pickup - Land Rover
I don’t know about others on here but everyone I know with scotch mules, NCM and even a lot of Welsh mules lamb them all indoors
I lamb indoors too.
- Location
- West Wales
Poor you
Poor you
yes, the Land Rover is 03, I don’t know how we’d replace it.
Start 20th April. It’s a upland farm really so doesn’t get growing until then really. But it’s a cheap system and has made a good job out of a bad situation.When did they lamb? My I’ve already had some off my March lambed mules with numbers growing each week
obviously a lot of the posters on here lamb them out etc but I meant in the main I don’t know many who do, saying that apart from the big hill flocks there arnt that many outdoor lambing flocks down here
- Location
- N.Lincs
Yeah, but the Dishley Leicester was a very different thing from a modern BFL.. ..and it was a long way back.
Very similar in the way that the Lincoln was used to improve both the Cheviot and the Texel many moons ago.
Maybe things like the above answer @Aspiring Peasants original question - all these old sheep breeds have the 'building blocks' for anything, as yet unforseen, that we may need in the future. One good reason to keep them going.
Maybe one day somebody might just want some wool - us longwool breeders can only live in hope......
.......one day, Rodney
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I can honestly see a future in wool as a sustainable, renewable fibre. I just don't want to be peeling the stuff off myself for pennies at the moment.Yeah, but the Dishley Leicester was a very different thing from a modern BFL.. ..and it was a long way back.
Very similar in the way that the Lincoln was used to improve both the Cheviot and the Texel many moons ago.
Maybe things like the above answer @Aspiring Peasants original question - all these old sheep breeds have the 'building blocks' for anything, as yet unforseen, that we may need in the future. One good reason to keep them going.
Maybe one day somebody might just want some wool - us longwool breeders can only live in hope......
.......one day, Rodney
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
got to come , millions thrown at ecology / carbon capture / sustainability/ at some point someone will cotton (lol) on to this cheap natural fibre
- Location
- N.Lincs
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Actually, I was a little tempted at one point by the RBST's 'Love a Longwool' campaign but I had been drinking heavily...Just 'keep my name on file' at Woolless Towers - have tups, will travel
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
The way it’s currently processed is hardly environmentally friendly!
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
Re: Heterosis
This explains it quite well even though it is about cattle and not particularly new:
https://futurebeef.com.au/wp-content/uploads/breeding_for_profit-LR.pdf
This is quite pertinent to the discussion (from the above pamphlet):
This explains it quite well even though it is about cattle and not particularly new:
https://futurebeef.com.au/wp-content/uploads/breeding_for_profit-LR.pdf
This is quite pertinent to the discussion (from the above pamphlet):