- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Probably advertise them privately. They're in condition to lamb safely, not waddle around a sale ring.
Push come to shove, there are plenty of in-lamb sales coming up at Welshpool though.
Pedigree Beltex Sheep
- Thread starter Eleanor2021
- Start date
Probably advertise them privately. They're in condition to lamb safely, not waddle around a sale ring.
Push come to shove, there are plenty of in-lamb sales coming up at Welshpool though.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Yes. Everything here is mv accredited.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
I sell a lot of charollais shearling ewes for use with beltex rams , they make some fine tups
- Location
- West Country
read my fekkin mind
what intrigues me is the 4 way cross @spin cycle must be developing with his shedders, Icelandic, Shetland and now beltex....
MJT
Member
1. Singles just hay or silage , Twins , same conc as you would feed anything else .
2. Standard mineral licks my singles just have salt licks .
3. Won’t be cycling properly naturally until end of September , so then onwards unless want to sponge and mosh etc .
4. Beltex cross well with a Charolais or texel , or cheviot.
5. Ones that are naturally bred and survive
10 years of breeding them commercially . Takes a while to breed out the rubbishand keep what suits your farm (not just with them , with any bought in breeds) . But when you’ve got them right youl be pleased with them !
- Location
- N.Lincs
It's a ploy..........
.............he reckons if he can breed 'em with big enough @rses it'll cure his 'escape' problem 'cos they'll not be able to get through the holes....
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We cross ours here with Blue de maines,
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
It's a ploy..........
.............he reckons if he can breed 'em with big enough @rses it'll cure his 'escape' problem 'cos they'll not be able to get through the holes....
View attachment 931017...........a few like this will 'plug' the holes and stop the rest getting out too. It's a win/win situation. That @spin cycle really is a Blue Sky Thinker
all this pee taking ...i do have 'feelings' and ambitions to better myself
.........nah i don't
interesting; what's the end result?, easy lambing?
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
The Blue de Maine cross produces Millennium Blue terminal sires.
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Yeah lamb easily and the lambs are millennium blue
We just call them bluetex over here.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I’ve never realy understood the idea behind Millenium Bleus. The 2 breeds in the cross being polar opposites will surely mean that the first cross rams look great, but the next cross will give you some little Beltex types, alongside some godawful lanky Bleu types.
The same applies with all crossbred tups derived from dissimilar breeds. I’ve seen plenty of variability in the few Charollais x Beltex tups I’ve bred here, and the next cross can only become more variable...
The same applies with all crossbred tups derived from dissimilar breeds. I’ve seen plenty of variability in the few Charollais x Beltex tups I’ve bred here, and the next cross can only become more variable...
There's more variation within a breed than between breeds anyway, so when you cross 2 together you just double the variation. Or inconsistency.I’ve never realy understood the idea behind Millenium Bleus. The 2 breeds in the cross being polar opposites will surely mean that the first cross rams look great, but the next cross will give you some little Beltex types, alongside some godawful lanky Bleu types.
The same applies with all crossbred tups derived from dissimilar breeds. I’ve seen plenty of variability in the few Charollais x Beltex tups I’ve bred here, and the next cross can only become more variable...
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I managed to get some photos/video of my Beltex ewes if anyone is interested. I've posted the video on my website: Sheep for Sale | Lowerye
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
You want to lamb a beltex ewe to a tex ram. Good luck.don't listen to those moaning minnys
1-3 pretty much as all sheep
4 crossed with texel or charolais make great terminal sires
5 from commercial users
i don't care what anyone says about belties as far as i'm concerned, in a lowland situation, we're breeding sheep to sell and thats what belties do best
pgk
Member
- Location
- south warwickshire
No!
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
1. Best concentrate to feed housed Beltex? ratios, quantity etc.
bog standard 16% cake and sugar beet 1:1
Singles - high energy lick like Lifeline
Twins - 1/2lb per head x2 daily
Triplets - 3/4lb per head x2 daily
2. Best supplements, licks etc. for Beltex?
lifeline or similar
3. Breeding regime? e.g. introduction of ram, feeding in late pregnancy etc.
Don’t think this is a question you can address in isolation. There’s a whole range from late lambing to go for the shearling market where you’d just turn the tups into teased ewes on the 1st October, to sponging for AI and ET work in early August for ram lamb/showing
4. Best Beltex crosses
The right type of Texel
5. Most popular Beltex rams/tups
Don’t know. I suspect the type I’d chose would be more Texelly than would be the norm, probably so Texelly you’d be better off with a Texel.
bog standard 16% cake and sugar beet 1:1
Singles - high energy lick like Lifeline
Twins - 1/2lb per head x2 daily
Triplets - 3/4lb per head x2 daily
2. Best supplements, licks etc. for Beltex?
lifeline or similar
3. Breeding regime? e.g. introduction of ram, feeding in late pregnancy etc.
Don’t think this is a question you can address in isolation. There’s a whole range from late lambing to go for the shearling market where you’d just turn the tups into teased ewes on the 1st October, to sponging for AI and ET work in early August for ram lamb/showing
4. Best Beltex crosses
The right type of Texel
5. Most popular Beltex rams/tups
Don’t know. I suspect the type I’d chose would be more Texelly than would be the norm, probably so Texelly you’d be better off with a Texel.