Suffolk’s making the grade

farmer james

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Mixed Farmer

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Olney, north bucks

• May 7, 2020

• #1

Suffolk sired lambs grade sheet above, these were aired by our home bred performance recorded Suffolk rams, born second half of Jan and predominantly fromLleyn ewes.
Nearly all of my lambs go locally do are not graded, always good to see some graded to show that you getting the job right.
FJ

 

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Sandpit Farm

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Derbyshire

• May 7, 2020

• #2

Have you got pics of those E3Ls? I bet they looked incredible

 

farmer james

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Olney, north bucks

• May 7, 2020

• #3

No sadly not, not too good with the camera on my phone will see if I can get a few snaps off the next consignment.
FJ

 

Dyffryn

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Corwen

• May 7, 2020

• #4

Off grass alone or creep feed?

 

Dkb

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• May 8, 2020

• #5

Seriously impressive to be getting E grade lambs out of Lleyn ewes by a Suffolk. Any chance of a few pics of the sires?

 

farmer james

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Olney, north bucks

• May 8, 2020

• #6

Dyffryn said:

Off grass alone or creep feed?

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They have had creep
FJ

 

farmer james

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Olney, north bucks

• May 8, 2020

• #7

Dkb said:

Seriously impressive to be getting E grade lambs out of Lleyn ewes by a Suffolk. Any chance of a few pics of the sires?

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I will try and get some pics of our stock rams, they will not look anything special as we do not push our rams for the ring and pick on their EBV’s more.
TBF I expect the E grade lambs are more likely to be out of some homebred Suffolk cross ewes, I will check later as I have grades to lamb tags.
FJ

 

farmer james

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Olney, north bucks

• May 8, 2020

• #8

Dkb said:

Seriously impressive to be getting E grade lambs out of Lleyn ewes by a Suffolk. Any chance of a few pics of the sires?

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Not the best picture but what I had time to get, some of our stock rams, the white faced tup is a highlander we put across reject Suffolk’s to produce a xbred commercial ewe.
FJ

 

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farmer james

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Mixed Farmer

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Olney, north bucks

• May 10, 2020

• #9

Dkb said:

Seriously impressive to be getting E grade lambs out of Lleyn ewes by a Suffolk. Any chance of a few pics of the sires?

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Having looked in more detail the lambs out of Lleyn ewes have done better than out of our old Suffolk cross ewes.
20 lambs out of lleyn ewes graded as follows
E2 3 lambs
E3L 1 lamb
U3L 8 lambs
U3H 2 lambs
R2 1 lamb
R3L 5 lambs

The other 2 E3L’s in the batch were purebred Suffolk’s.
FJ

 

farmer james

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Olney, north bucks

• May 22, 2020

• #10

Sandpit Farm said:

Have you got pics of those E3Ls? I bet they looked incredible

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I I don’t know how this lamb graded but would be typical of the our lambs this year.
Also happy to find out Lavendon Suffolk ram was the top Suffolk for days to slaughter on the ram compare project on the latest results.
FJ