- Location
- Cheshire
Fit twice as many in the race as well…The great thing about swales is that you can put a heap of ewes in a pen or race and work away in among them without fear of injury ( or castration!!!)....
1948 Blackie
- Thread starter Ysgythan
- Start date
NZDan
Member
- Location
- Broomfield, New Zealand
One thing I'll say for Blackies is you can't smother them, I had 700 Blackie Ewes (Proper Perthshire ones not the wee shites of things) Panic and all rush into a closed in area, they must have been 4 or 5 deep for quite a while and only one dead. Most other sheep would have seen 50 or more dead.Fit twice as many in the race as well…
You probably started the cut at the throat though
You don't need to theres plenty of threads abusing most of the breeds!
Beltex can't breathe, walk or live beyond 2yrs oldCharollais are nesh, thin skinned, milk less Texels have heads bigger than the cabbages they're fed onMules have cow titsEverything else has increased proclivity to escape or die or produce worthless lambs.And don't mention those that the wool falls off of its own accord unless you've got a few days to read all the replies
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Never mind their is awlays Romneys and romtexs to save the day ..
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I used to keep blackies now i dont ,
- Location
- Cheshire
It’s Suffolks with the cow tits, and being gormlessYou probably started the cut at the throat though
You don't need to theres plenty of threads abusing most of the breeds!
And don't mention those that the wool falls off of its own accord unless you've got a few days to read all the replies
Suffolks are stupid, built like donkeys with shitty arses.
I've interferred with both and would say Ryelands are fatter, woolier more awkward versions of Southdowns. Both have wool from the tips of their ears to their toes.
Berrichons feet fall off. Dorpers feet don't fall off they just aren't born with any. Shetlands can escape from a sealed room. Dorsets are fat woolly and always pregnant.
I did a live dead, using Blackie hoggs/tup lambs, hell what a carcase!! I have often wondered if sheep with a slack back ,being polite, left it in the carcase, yes you could see them a row of almost deformed bodies hanging up, still if having its head and horns stuck in the air matters most.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Got to get elbow deep occasionally.
- Location
- Cheshire
I was thinking that
Occasionally a wether but they're hanging upside down from the shed ceiling by then.
- Location
- Fife
Blackie ram lambs will smother easy enough. Don’t ask me how I kn9w
How do you know?Blackie ram lambs will smother easy enough. Don’t ask me how I kn9w
Crickey, they must be wilder than folk say if they`ll go 4 or 5 deep...
This slagging of job seems to be really taking off now...
Some folk really should get out more.....