Recent content by poor farmer

oh sorry, I try to buy off farm, I find the rams at the sales are too pumped with meal, there is a sale in Tullow shortly but I believe a very small entry there will be entries in the sheep ireland sales in tullamore & roscrea in august this spring lambing started about 12 th of january...

mostly to Irish Country Meats (ICM) Camolin wexford I am not knocking the charolais I'm sure you have super lambs especially from Texel ewes, we found they wernt able for the hash climate in this area for early lambing , if we were mid season or late lambing the ch might be more suitable

sourcing more HD this year, Terminal only , all lambs are slaughtered in factory @ between 18.5 and 21 kgs mostly R3 and 4 with about 10% hitting U3 I sell on a flat rate price so no grading bonus, we start lambing mid january onwards and out of doors asap last February we had 10 days heavy...

Hampshire Down , Vendeen & Belclare

running some blue faced leicester x texel mules here & intending to buy some mayo mules at the the sale , also have some pure Lleyn have been wondering which ram to put with these for replacements... and tossing between texel, belclare & lleyn as I already have have texel & lleyn...

I ran A HD on pure Lleyn ewes last year & am happy with lambs, actually a couple of them went to the factory in the last bunch BTW some super sheep in the pics , well done to owners & thanks for sharing