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£90-120 depending on which draw.

Looked a kirkly hall but they wanted me to sit in a classroom for 4 days just to pass pa1 which seems a bit ott for a short online multiple choice test..

Suffolk tups leave too many light brown and mongrel looking lambs over shedders which is ok deadweight but not for stores when buyers arnt sure what they are Beltex and dutchys are easily lambed and quick on there feet good to sell but are far too bare for outdoor lambing and easily get cold...

You can tell sheep were a good trade last year👌👌

Can't see them buckets lasting long with the amount of stone we have. Shearing them off at ground level will be ok as long as they don't just push over into ground or lift too much soil

Has anyone tried It? Small amount to lift with no local contractors. Won't matter if there is alot left behind for hoggs to clear up

Reduced growth rates and hard work for penning up. I run 550 plus lambs and it works but would prefer to half it if I had the grazing infrastructure

What will they eat roughly on grass half a kilo a day or less

Plenty of tops triplets and lean twins getting a run onto grass for a hour every day. 1st time running ewes on beet right up to lambing so crossing fingers they look well enough atm

600 ewes on beet up till lambing then on to grass to lamb. Lifting excess to sell atm. Is it worth keeping some back to spread in lambing paddocks. Or will they ignore it to eat grass. 4-5cm of grass atm but sheep will get on top of it by the end of lambing

Still a lot nicer to sell a texal x for 100 than a easycare for 50 even if you lose 20% over a lifetime it's still 80% of the ewes making 40% more per animal. Nz have low cull ewe trade compared to us so makes the low ewe weight a no brainer for them but not so simple for us

I've never worked this out but 50% won t be far off when you add together all the ewes that get culled early for bad bags, mouths, geld, lean, we cull on 7 year old and there's never many to cull on age alone

40% lifetime mortality be 7-8% per annum mortality?

10 to 20% of a age group over it's lifetime would be more like it