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Self Replacing Maternal Breed
- Thread starter TheRock
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CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Your future in sheep farming? - Wairere Rams
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CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
You might need to turn your phone sideways to read it ...
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Is that last pic the inside of the window ?
Corn & Horn
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How would the Exlana’s maternal ability compare to the NZ Romney? Very impressed with the Romney’s maternal ability, not so impressed with the quantity of wool and associated work!
- Location
- Devon
Depends who you ask, or where you buy them from.
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- Fife
Buy exlana rams and breed up your Romneys
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
That would take an eternity and not much Romney left at the end of it?
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- Fife
5 crosses according to Charley Walker.
Be cheaper than wholesale selling and buying. And you'd retain the adaptive genetics which suit the farm.
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Exlanas making the paper.
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Currently running shedders next to Romney’s, same management. Shedders winning. As good lambs, probably more of them. And less hassle.
Who is the rasta hippie?
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- Montgomeryshire
You know the ballpark you’re in with the Romneys….. Exlanas aren’t even in the same one, imho of course.
They do, of course, have less wool and associated work.
*just in case anyone thought I wouldn’t be along.
easyram1
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- North Shropshire
EasyDams are being used on a number of flocks to avoid twice a year shearing. Mix is Romney 50%; NZ Texel 25%: NZ E Frisian 25%. will have a couple of the latest imported rams on stand at NSA Scotsheep next week and others at Malvern NSA event in july.
Big Romney flock round here put shedding tups onto them for replacements. The professional shearing contractors said they where the worst ewes they had ever shorn from around the world. Romney wool welded onto the skin.
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
If I wanted to change from Romneys, think I'd definitely just sell them, get shedding ewes in and concentrate my efforts on knocking them into shape.
CopperBeech
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Agreed. Life is too short to spend 5 years plus shearing half shedding sheep. I’ve been handling shedding lambs out of Romney’s recently and they just look like a Romney!
BELOWAVERAGE
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No disrespect to anyone here and I've never knowingly set eyes on you, but these chap's who are successful with Exlana's don a different style of hair cut to most/not all shepherd's, you don't think that's where your going wrong ? Perhaps making them feel unwanted/not at home. (This is a joke before anyone gets too wound up)You know the ballpark you’re in with the Romneys….. Exlanas aren’t even in the same one, imho of course.
They do, of course, have less wool and associated work.
*just in case anyone thought I wouldn’t be along.