reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
I will be getting my aberfield x Chev hoggs in this few days. I will get a few pics
aberfield sheep
- Thread starter missjones
- Start date
- Location
- north Wales
Just bought 52 aberfield x lleyn hoggs home now to start lambing
- Location
- West Wales
He's on single sire, not gingemong sires.
I've got some with 4 ear notches, suff, tel, bel and Char all mixed
the only 1 we're trying to breed out is the Suffolk now but that's a different subject!
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
- Location
- north Wales
Been lambing my hoggs
for a week now
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
Are they coming all right?
- Location
- north Wales
Not had a hard lambing with one yet, just the odd leg back....having a run of twins at the moment [emoji31]
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
- Location
- North Antrim
looks good,what's the lambs sire?
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
A lonk. I had one for my pure lonk ewes
- Location
- North Antrim
thanks, we don't have lonk over here, I'd have been guessing a while before I said lonk, it's a fine big lamb.
- Location
- Scot Borders
Just finished lambing my first aberfield x NCC ewehoggs and my second year of lambing my cheviots to the aberfield. Delighted with both. Bought tups with good lambing ease figures and maternal abilities. Living up to their figures. Aberfield ewe hogs have much wider pelvis than my traditional chevmules, so much easier to get lambs out. Can't fault them after 2 years
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
It's a decent size.
I will tease any hoggs this year. I started lambing 4 weeks ago
TALDLONKTUP2
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I'd have never guessed lonk either....I'd be interested in how they grow out, if you're not wanting to keep the lonk cross gimmers I could be interested!
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
I will keep you posted, no probI'd have never guessed lonk either....I'd be interested in how they grow out, if you're not wanting to keep the lonk cross gimmers I could be interested!
- Location
- north Wales
Sold the first of this years Aberfield x lleyns lambs on Thursday. Born after 10th March they weighed 38.6kg on market scales (which was disappointing ) ...I was nearly tempted to sell some of the heaviest females as well , made £90 compared to £95 for nicest texel x mules, same weight and were started being born 12 days earlier...there might be something in this recording malarkey! ! [emoji6]
- Location
- West Wales
Good price! We find with any of our breeds that if you have something outgrowing the rest of the field by a long way in a twin field, it's got to be a single so are culled. We don't tag record at birth.
Have you got two colours of spray can?
- Location
- West Wales
Yes and their numbered accordingly if a single lamb is the only survivor from a twin baring ewe by the time we ring - 12hrs. But if you lose 1 lamb at a few weeks old then the other grows like stink and noticeably stands out! Had a lamb 14kg heavier than the rest of its field the other day, ewe lamb, currently hanging up in a cold store somewhere now.
- Location
- Herefordshire
Wonder if these Aberfield sheep would suit a lowland Feb lambing system with Texels back on them.Would they tup early enough and have the early growth rates.