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Light Swales are very fashionable toolike it or not they need some colour puting into their faces,my darker coloured ones were making £15-20 more than my light coloured ones.
Light Swales are very fashionable toolike it or not they need some colour puting into their faces,my darker coloured ones were making £15-20 more than my light coloured ones.
No good having a bonny head and scrawny bodylike it or not they need some colour puting into their faces,my darker coloured ones were making £15-20 more than my light coloured ones.
yes,that is the problemLight Swales are very fashionable too
These Swales look crap.....I know let’s tell them that this is the fashion nowyes,that is the problem
a nice face with a good body is what we are afterNo good having a bonny head and scrawny body
These Swales look crap.....I know let’s tell them that this is the fashion now
I honestly couldn’t care less if theirs heads were pink, the body’s on them now are getting narrower and narrowera nice face with a good body is what we are after
Some say brown faces are better milkers thoughI honestly couldn’t care less if theirs heads were pink, the body’s on them now are getting narrower and narrower
Some people will tell you owt to sell you itSome say brown faces are better milkers though
Ha there’s no differenceSome people will tell you owt to sell you it
and you save on transport costs with the narrower onesSome say brown faces are better milkers though
Even when you take em back home?and you save on transport costs with the narrower ones
He saves on transport costs thenEven when you take em back home?
hah,never thought of that!Even when you take em back home?
Agree with all of thisMule breeders need to understand that at the end of the day the fashion for coarse hair in Swale tups, coloured legs and the perfect coloured face in a NCM ewe is really not that important. For many years the NCM has been the backbone of the British sheep industry but there is definitely a swing away from the NCM
I am not on my own in moving away from the NCM and the principle reason is its loss of shape/ conformation. At the end of the day you mule breeders need to produce a better shaped sheep
Yes me too. Go to the fat sale on a Monday at Carlisle and there’s many 45 kilo lambs off white faced ewes. Texels our of mules don’t look that good thereAgree with all of this
The way they are dropping atm they’ll be less than culls before longWhy does having a nice face make the sheep better. Is this some Northern genetic factor that means they all lamb easily and have two lambs which can be sold fat in 12 weeks.
Seriously though I am sure they are mostly good sheep but reality has just clicked in as they have a poor conformation and low value when sold as a cull. Depreciation has been too high for a long time!