Some of my genetics being used by a local and pretty successful Millennium Blue breeder. My Beltex genes in the dam and lamb sired by an unrelated tup I bred.View attachment 888148
thats a cracking lamb, do you know roughly how old it will be
Some of my genetics being used by a local and pretty successful Millennium Blue breeder. My Beltex genes in the dam and lamb sired by an unrelated tup I bred.View attachment 888148
I would be nervous of putting a square muscly tup like that on ewe lambs personally, but I have zero experience of lambing beltexes so I may well be wrong.Aye up. I'm on the edge of joining the crazy gang
I know a picture doesn't show the whole animal. But would this boy be ok on my Lleyn and NCCxLleyn ewe Hogg's. My fear is he's very blocky/square
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I haven't bought him... yet
I would be nervous of putting a square muscly tup like that on ewe lambs personally, but I have zero experience of lambing beltexes so I may well be wrong.
Aye, that is my thought too. But I wanted the experts opinions. I've no experience of Beltex...
He is a cracking tup, otherwise
Whats he look like front on ? He doesn’t look too heavily boned and hasn’t a breeze block of a head , as well as having a higher set head than some which is a good thing . I’d personally have no worries about Using him on your type of ewe lambs.
I reckon he would be spot on for the job @Nithsdale Farmer
It's a friend's tup, he send a short video with that picture bit I don't want to post the video on YouTube so that I can upload to here...
It's poor, but here is the best stillframe of his front... as he is turning to run away
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And side on
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Size is hard to tell, he says they're smaller than some Beltex you see as they're done mostly off grass and not fed (although, I've no idea what they're grazing in that field but it isn't grass!)
Theres this one, and another similar, for sale if I want them. Would the 2 do 140 ewe lambs?
Have you thought about a Charollsis for your ewe lambs ? They’d leave you a belter of a lamb!
I’d expect that type of ram to serve 70 each easily yes ! He isn’t extreme and looks mobile , can’t see why using them would be a problem . I’ve used and sold thicker types for use on ewe lambs and not had any complaints , so far ......
You are correct about not wanting to drag the mum down, same reason I am using a Charmoise. The char tup would possibly leave you more options, as in some would finish with you, and store the rest etc. I haven’t used a char on ewe lambs, but there is a Welshman who would likely let you know how good the lambs are, and how little drag they have on mum !
But on my gimmers , the char was cracking. They are now going all my terminal bound romtex ewes !!
Oh, yes , awkward one that then !Would that be the wannabe Welshman, Char breeder who uses the Beltex on his hoggs
Get it bought Niths, I'll give you 50 quid for Beltex X store lambsThe aim is for a modest 100 lambs, from the 140 hoggs. If I can sell them for £50ish i should be clearing ALL costs for the year and leaving me a small ££ in my pocket for my trouble.