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Thinking of buying a used diesel Gator/ Ranger to replace one of the bikes. See a lot advertised with 2-3k hours. I wouldn't buy a bike with them hours, they seem to give a bit of bother above 1000 hours. Where as a tractor with 2-3000 Hours is quite low. My question is what would be...

Don't know what the magic circle bit is, but we do sell plenty of well bred natural tups. A good breeders tup needs to good commercially first. It's ok selling one fancy one to breeders, it's selling the rest. Blackies have changed again in the last year or 2. There's no demand for tiny fancy...

Doesn't seem to do Blackies any harm with no registration of lambs or flock book. Can still produce a good sheep without the need to gather up money to keep folk in jobs.

Yes, have done it last few years, but contractor has retired now.

We have moved from ploughing to direct seeding grass on our farm, the ground suits it better. We are looking at doing the drilling / overseeding ourselves. Looking at budget machines for the job- what are the options? Light run with power harrow and seed box? Or is it better to burn off and...

Thinking of buying a a 2007 Claas Ares 656. Are these a good tractor? Can they be calibrated to do 50k on the road? Many Thanks

I enjoy people talking crap on threads like this and all the theorys about prices and luck. I can tell you now they are genuine. We buy good tups to suit both the pedigree and commercial market. Selling almost 200 rams each year to repeat customers can't say we are too far wrong from what the...

Sold a few Blackie tups to people for putting on to Texel and Suffolk type ewe lambs, they seem to be pleased with the lambs. Easy lambed, hardy, lively and still kill well for them,

Not really, didn't have time to record them all so wasn't much point doing some when ewe lambs kept might not be from recorded ewes.it depends, you could buy an aged tup for a lot less than a good shearling. Price doesn't necessarily mean they are a good tup or that they will breed well. You...

We did it with the Sac! We had no buyers looking for recorded tups! thats why we stopped. we would record if thats what customers wanted

Used to performance record, but there no customers wanted to know about it so we stopped. Have been considering starting if there was a need. Well on legs and feet, locomotion, mouth, conformation, skin, character.

As described....earlier by hilly, bad feet, bad wool, bad conformation, no milk, no longevity etc is a bad sheep. I'm saying we wouldn't have much bother with horns in eyes. It depends, usually sell some at 5 as there a good demand for them at our sale and sell some broken mouthed. One...

No hay or buckets, just nuts on the ground 6 weeks or so before lambing. Id say about 1.5. Pick them by eye and hand. A local man who buys tups from us said his blackface wool grades as well as cheviot. We only ai some ewes to the shared tups in the first year, they are used naturally too...

All of ours have been on the hill! Ewes tupped and put back to the hill, some twins lambed in fields with the rest and singles lambed on the hill. We have put shearlings to as much as 214 ewes last year naturally. A fit tup should be able to do 120 + no problem. A good tup that you see must...

How have we ruined the breed? I can assure you that the prices paid at Lanark and Dalmally are genuine. If the stock are good enough then they will sell. With breeders embracing AI it means teams get bigger to buy a tup as they all can get good use if him. Look at Aitkenhead, a relatively new...

I was wondering if I could turbo an MF 290, She has a good engine but don't think it needs done up yet. Could we turbo her now and do up the engine later if needed? She doesn't do a wile lot of work but we need a bit more power and don't want to sell her.