Woolless
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Is that true? Where did you hear that snippet?
beltex x texel onto mule ewes
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No I'm just fishing
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That's no different to a Beltex, selected on the same traits but in a different country. They are all just Texels ultimately, marketed under different brand.
The Dutch Texel Society allows you to register a Beltex, but the Beltex Society doesn't allow you to register a Dutch Texel with them. A Dutch Texel breeder did once tell me how many rams he'd sold into Beltex flocks though...
Politics eh?
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That's no different to a Beltex, selected on the same traits but in a different country. They are all just Texels ultimately, marketed under different brand.
The Dutch Texel Society allows you to register a Beltex, but the Beltex Society doesn't allow you to register a Dutch Texel with them. A Dutch Texel breeder did once tell me how many rams he'd sold into Beltex flocks though...
Politics eh?
If this doesn't prove breeds are an artificial construct and status rubbish...
It's types and genotypes which are important.
They’re a beltex that was bred was bred with a Jacob for a few generations too make them look funky
Woolless
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Woolless
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Are you not getting them mixed up with the Dutch Spotted, or whatever it's called?
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That’s what I was getting at all same just different selection.That's no different to a Beltex, selected on the same traits but in a different country. They are all just Texels ultimately, marketed under different brand.
The Dutch Texel Society allows you to register a Beltex, but the Beltex Society doesn't allow you to register a Dutch Texel with them. A Dutch Texel breeder did once tell me how many rams he'd sold into Beltex flocks though...
Politics eh?
Al the ex suffolk breeders are the problem as we know
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I’m not talking about those hideous things geoff
Yes but just thought I’d throw another level in the ring
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Blues and badgers tooYes but just thought I’d throw another level in the ring
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Yes but just thought I’d throw another level in the ring
They have rat’s tails too, whether that’s down to @unlacedgecko ’s Shetland genetics, or Zwartble blood to put the all important pretty markings in….
I seen @unlacedgecko has some texel cross draft ewes for sale he listed in the for sale section the other day
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I don't? Just pure Shetland draft ewes.I seen @unlacedgecko has some texel cross draft ewes for sale he listed in the for sale section the other day
Will be putting a ruck of Shetlands to inverdale texel tups this autumn though. Should be awesome little ewes.
put them in a lot of sales as texel crosses and nobody will batter an eye lid
hell Iv even seen auctioneers call out things as such 
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Embryo of a plan at the mo is keep the ewe lambs and sell them spring 23 with beltex lambs at footput them in a lot of sales as texel crosses and nobody will batter an eye lid
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Embryo of a plan at the mo is keep the ewe lambs and sell them spring 23 with beltex lambs at foot
Hmmm. Would a Beltex out of a Shetland cross be up to (the bottom end of) killing spec by Spring 2024?
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I dont know.
But a 2 tooth texel cross ewe with a beltex lamb at foot should be worth a fortune.
Holland, like the Beltex.And anyway, the Beltex has a rat's tail, whereas the Texel doesn't. But I don't know where it came from