I do lambs with dyesect, as soon as they are dry and then drift out to the hill, have done so for many years without any problems. my ground is rotten with ticks, I will do over 600 lambs, by the time I am fished. Now with outdout the down side is just how much of the stuff I get covered in...
We had a bull that carried it, and he did leave fantastic calfs, that I found to be very easy calving, but I found when keeping heifer replacements, they were very unpredictable, some made brilliant cows, some of my best! And some were terrible completely useless. If I wanted to just sell store...
I personally find the whole small sheep more hardie a load of crap, the hill will grow the ewe to the size it allows, we have a hard enough job trying to get size in our lambs with out, selecting little 3 shear tups that stand not much higher than your knee cap, and missing 2 ribs! I have a...