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<blockquote data-quote="Nithsdale" data-source="post: 7797832" data-attributes="member: 17508"><p>At the start, Grandad had 20-30 sucklers (Galloway's), 40 dairy (Ayrshire's) and 200 (Cheviot) ewes - then switched to Blackies. Used to buy in store (Blackie) lambs, grow some rape/kale/stubble turnips and grain.</p><p></p><p>The dairy went (estate weren't interested in helping funding the bulk tank or upgrading the parlour or road). So dad ran 80 sucklers. Stopped buying store lambs and upped ewe numbers a bit, selling scotch Mules. Headage payments he upped ewes to 350-400, and ran mostly Mules.</p><p></p><p>Today we are still running 80 sucklers, more beef bred (a lot of sim and Luing blood). Lambing 600 ewes, Lleyn and CheviotxLleyn - breed my own replacements but they run on the estate on tack keep.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Cows are good but take up a lot of land (silage ground and grazing)... Can make a mess when the weather turns in the autumn... are always crowding that 1 gateway you want to shift sheep through... and break things for fun <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😖" title="Confounded face :confounded:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f616.png" data-shortname=":confounded:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nithsdale, post: 7797832, member: 17508"] At the start, Grandad had 20-30 sucklers (Galloway's), 40 dairy (Ayrshire's) and 200 (Cheviot) ewes - then switched to Blackies. Used to buy in store (Blackie) lambs, grow some rape/kale/stubble turnips and grain. The dairy went (estate weren't interested in helping funding the bulk tank or upgrading the parlour or road). So dad ran 80 sucklers. Stopped buying store lambs and upped ewe numbers a bit, selling scotch Mules. Headage payments he upped ewes to 350-400, and ran mostly Mules. Today we are still running 80 sucklers, more beef bred (a lot of sim and Luing blood). Lambing 600 ewes, Lleyn and CheviotxLleyn - breed my own replacements but they run on the estate on tack keep. Cows are good but take up a lot of land (silage ground and grazing)... Can make a mess when the weather turns in the autumn... are always crowding that 1 gateway you want to shift sheep through... and break things for fun 😖 [/QUOTE]
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