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80% of Ram breeding flocks in the NI of NZ have triple drench resitance.

Well said @neilo

The evidence is the opposite is true, low methane sheep have smaller rumens I looked at using methane measurement as a proxy for feed efficiency but the correlation was very small and more efficient sheep tended to have higher methane out put.

Dorpers have better feet than AWs in my experience.

They are rubbish imho. Bad feet, sh!t temperament, poor performance. If you think they beet existing UK shedding breeds then you're delusional or been conned.

Have you looked at Kiwitech gear, at least as good as Rappa, if not better.

Had dinner with a man in the know last week, only 10% of Angus bulls are sold through sales. And a famous bull that was the first to break 30k which is the equivalent of 1.2m now.

I've a dog like that, he'll sit on the truck or in the yards happily, but when ever I go through a gate he rushes through and 40 metres out in to the paddock, it does my head in, but as he's 12 I suspect it's to late to break the habit.

I insist on my dogs doing that, I've always assumed it was a given that all dogs did that, and my dogs are pretty hopeless at most other things.

On intensive bull system studies at Massey Uni the Jersey X bulls out performed the Fresian bulls on kg per ha.

Mate them. They're quite common in the steep hill country of NZs east cape. The farmers use Jersey Bulls over (angus) yearling heifers and finish the steers and terminal mate the heifer calves. By using a Terminal Angus bull the calves qualify for for Angus Premium and the Jersey back ground...

It will be interesting to see how they go. The work done at MARC showed the JerseyX beef cow to be the most productive as far as weight of calf wean per kg of cow, they also had the highest weight of calf weaned per cow life time due to the cows both having high calve weights and a better than...

That is what I assume, if they're wearing a mask they're positive. Most folk I know aren't testing, or vaxing or getting sick. but it seems that those that do one also do the other two. I'm still suffering with a little joint pain that started the week after my 2nd jab and got worse after my...

They were stacked up against a shoulder height wall, right to the top a good number ran up and over the wall, it was quite a sight, I've seen a number of reasonably big smothers in my time and I thought this particular one was going to be bad but they kinda cake mixed around and all ran out again.

Dumneys?

One thing I'll say for Blackies is you can't smother them, I had 700 Blackie Ewes (Proper Perthshire ones not the wee shites of things) Panic and all rush into a closed in area, they must have been 4 or 5 deep for quite a while and only one dead. Most other sheep would have seen 50 or more dead.

I think they look better. The rams especially.

I stand to be corrected but I thing the SRUC Kirton farm has retained some BlackieXLleyn ewes to develop a composite line of hill sheep. Mind it was pre Covid that I heard that so it may have changed. Traditionally the Blackies and Lleyns were bred pure for the first cycle and crossed for the...

UK.