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Then fake tan themNo but mule breeders try and breed the prettiest face [emoji23]
Then fake tan themNo but mule breeders try and breed the prettiest face [emoji23]
Personally I think if I had the sheds and permanent ground I'd be lambing twice a year.
An open composite which sheds and breeds aseaonally.
I was more thinking the same ewes every 6 months.My sheds store straw/machinery
Then lamb one batch late Feb, sterilise & do another batch in April
Then back to machinery until haytime & harvest when the sheds are filled again.
I was more thinking the same ewes every 6 months.
Quite a few breeders are on the Cornell star system BUT from what I’ve heard the ewes and lambs live on creep all year basicallyI was more thinking the same ewes every 6 months.
Quite a few breeders are on the Cornell star system BUT from what I’ve heard the ewes and lambs live on creep all year basically
Those are exactly the issues I have with texels. Why do butchers always want sheep that are not easily looked after.Texel, hard to lamb, go lame, prone to mastitis otherwise great sheep
There are some people doing every 6 months off grazed forage.Too hard on ewes, every 8 months used to be trialed with & most packed it up than was Finn/Dorsets
By all means give it a try. But my mate who ran Dorset’s said that the 3 crops in 2 years was very achievable but you burnt a lot of sheep out quickly. The only ewes that stood the pressure were the single beaters which funnily enough he didn’t want too keep replacements from. And that was on an good arable unit so constant clean reseeds and never over stocked with plenty of grain if needed. As he got older he swapped too crossbred ewes lambing in spring and wishes he’d done it years ago. The margins were just too tight on the 3 in 2 system and 1 crop would always be selling at the wrong time of year when the butchers didn’t want spring lamb.I was more thinking the same ewes every 6 months.
By all means give it a try. But my mate who ran Dorset’s said that the 3 crops in 2 years was very achievable but you burnt a lot of sheep out quickly. The only ewes that stood the pressure were the single beaters which funnily enough he didn’t want too keep replacements from. And that was on an good arable unit so constant clean reseeds and never over stocked with plenty of grain if needed. As he got older he swapped too crossbred ewes lambing in spring and wishes he’d done it years ago. The margins were just too tight on the 3 in 2 system and 1 crop would always be selling at the wrong time of year when the butchers didn’t want spring lamb.
I was more thinking the same ewes every 6 months.
I wonder how many ewes would take the tup a month after lambing!!
One in a thousand perhaps, and that would be the one that didn't lamb, but pinched a lamb which perished because she didn't have any milk.
Apart from that, it could be a sound system.
PS. Lambing here is down to the last handful, on the same once-a year breeding system tried and tested over the last 10,000 years.
Are you doing any work towards the eating quality of your lamb? Is anyone in the UK?i hope were not going down the chicken route, eg fast produced tasteless meat
Are you doing any work towards the eating quality of your lamb? Is anyone in the UK?