spark_28
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i agree with @Nithsdale Farmer but i would say dont leave any intire your first year or so until you establish your best breeding ewes. You dont want to just sell your biggest lambs from the whole lot as they are prob singles and not really your best just have had a better start. Once you see what ewes are consitantly twinning and rearing a good weight of lambs to finish with no intervension then those ewes can be your stud and lambs from the kept for stud breeding.
tbh that was going to be my original plan. was going to record everything the first 2-3 years and then split off the most successful ewes as a nucleus flock. still run them with the original but know which ones i wish to continue recording to hopefully work to an end where i can leave 80% of my flock lambing alone on the hill and have the rest continueing to be recorded