what tup for texel cross ewe lambs

HBush

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The most important thing is that you do not compromise the future breeding capability of that ewe lamb. As they're Texel crosses, with their awkward pelvises, I would say that an easy lambing sire is essential e.g. Welsh, Lleyn or Easycare. You can get improved Welsh rams that'll produce good lambs, especially out of a Texel ewe. They'll just be later maturing and be with you for a longer period.
I have to remark, that this year I bought a Lleyn tup hoping to make lambing time easier with Texel cross ewes and glimmers. It has resulted in 100% lambing assistance and my first ever Vet call out for a caesarian on a glimmer bearing twins. I suppose I bought the wrong Type of Lleyn!
I look back longingly to the year I borrowed a Jacob for ewe lambs (but they came out black with a white blaze).
 

Johngee

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I have to remark, that this year I bought a Lleyn tup hoping to make lambing time easier with Texel cross ewes and glimmers. It has resulted in 100% lambing assistance and my first ever Vet call out for a caesarian on a glimmer bearing twins. I suppose I bought the wrong Type of Lleyn!
I look back longingly to the year I borrowed a Jacob for ewe lambs (but they came out black with a white blaze).
Perhaps you should've bought an Easycare? Although it's been quite an open winter so that could have contributed.
 

Agrivator

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I have to remark, that this year I bought a Lleyn tup hoping to make lambing time easier with Texel cross ewes and glimmers. It has resulted in 100% lambing assistance and my first ever Vet call out for a caesarian on a glimmer bearing twins. I suppose I bought the wrong Type of Lleyn!
I look back longingly to the year I borrowed a Jacob for ewe lambs (but they came out black with a white blaze).

Maybe there was too much Texel in the Lleyn :rolleyes:.
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
I have to remark, that this year I bought a Lleyn tup hoping to make lambing time easier with Texel cross ewes and glimmers. It has resulted in 100% lambing assistance and my first ever Vet call out for a caesarian on a glimmer bearing twins. I suppose I bought the wrong Type of Lleyn!
I look back longingly to the year I borrowed a Jacob for ewe lambs (but they came out black with a white blaze).
Sounds to me like its your ewe breeding thats wrong. Pelvis not suitable for the job?
 

Bury the Trash

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Her Dam was lleyn x Texel her Sire was Exlana ..got 50 of these. The lamb is by a lleyn.... with some Texel in him ;)
...note the belly peeling :)
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We have just brought these in after starting to lamb mainly because of Fox trouble outside atm but I guess it will be easier to keep an eye on them...…so they will stay in now.. but ir its 'easier' to feed ewe lambs less outdoors...if you know what I mean... must try not to get them lambs too big...(y)
 

hendrebc

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Livestock Farmer
Maybe there was too much Texel in the Lleyn :rolleyes:.
There are some bloody awful lleyns out there amongst the good ones. It's hard to believe they are the same breed even.
I don't know how we ended up with him but we had one lleyn ram that has a proper wedge shape... But the wrong way :banghead: had shoulders like a texel and an arse like a welsh mountain (n) I think dad bought him as a runner to go in last I wish I'd never seen him lucky he never served more than a handful of ewes.
Dad is not allowed to pick rams anymore :LOL:
 

TexelBen

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Livestock Farmer
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North Yorkshire
There are some bloody awful lleyns out there amongst the good ones. It's hard to believe they are the same breed even.
I don't know how we ended up with him but we had one lleyn ram that has a proper wedge shape... But the wrong way :banghead: had shoulders like a texel and an arse like a welsh mountain (n) I think dad bought him as a runner to go in last I wish I'd never seen him lucky he never served more than a handful of ewes.
Dad is not allowed to pick rams anymore [emoji38]
It'll be alright for those lambs that come arse first
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Before I stopped lambing the ewe hoggs (was lambing 150 of them each year at the end) I had tried various breeds... a Lleyn tup beats them all for me.
The hoggs were pure Lleyn. I also convinced a good friend to move from using a Charollais to Lleyn. First lambing he did he said he wished he had switched years ago.

Only ones I had to help were the monster singles if I'd been too kind to them that last couple weeks before lambing - and that was my fault, not the sheep.

Agree with others - far too much variation within the Lleyn breed (because of the rapid growth in popularity of the breed they were bred up from anything and everything!).

Same with EVERY breed - you've got to buy the right type.
 

glensman

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Livestock Farmer
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North Antrim
Before I stopped lambing the ewe hoggs (was lambing 150 of them each year at the end) I had tried various breeds... a Lleyn tup beats them all for me.
The hoggs were pure Lleyn. I also convinced a good friend to move from using a Charollais to Lleyn. First lambing he did he said he wished he had switched years ago.

Only ones I had to help were the monster singles if I'd been too kind to them that last couple weeks before lambing - and that was my fault, not the sheep.

Agree with others - far too much variation within the Lleyn breed (because of the rapid growth in popularity of the breed they were bred up from anything and everything!).

Same with EVERY breed - you've got to buy the right type.
Your first sentence coincides with something I was thinking about today. Our lambing started this morning with two 2 year olds lambing for the first times we call these the hoggets, if we're lambing 1 year old sheep we call them ewe lambs. What way are these sheep referred to in Scotland, there doesn't seem to be a clear way of naming different classes/ages of sheep over here.
 

Dkb

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If it helps anyone I’m using a highlander ram across Texel ewe lambs and texel ewes and getting lovely stock out of them. They’re easy lambing and with great vigor which is important too for ewe lambs I always feel
 

ford4000

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north Wales
I use primera on my Hoggs. Good growth so I can get them sold quicker, otherwise a chamois Will give you cracking top of the market type lambs for the end of the year and into the next year. Not the fastest growing
 

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