Skintagain
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If you lamb in feb you are always going to have a lot more work than lambing outside in april.Just wanting to get some opinions.
Currently lamb 300 mules indoors Feb/March but to be honest getting sick of the mules and the amount they eat, the udder problems and the amount of triplets I seem to get from them.
Had Scottish mules for decades but as I get older I am losing my patience with them. I find it shocking how few ewes you have to sell fat after 5 crops of lambs, there is always too many with the cull mark on them after every lambing.
I am not needing any lessons in sheep farming or lambing thankyou please!!!!
Just curious as to what people would recommend to lamb indoors to cut out the problems mentioned above.
I am well aware all breeds have problems too, just not as many as my mules haha.
There must be a cross that is slightly more docile, doesn't need a kilo of feed a day so they have milk, have good udders and like the prospect of actually living for a year or two.
Posting this now because come May when I am selling lambs for good money I forget about all of the issues I get a lambing time.
Does anyone run any of the newer composites like Durnos, Highlanders, etc and have good success.
And just to include everyone in the conversation, which tups would give me the easiest lambing and Hardy lambs.
As you can see I am having a large clear out this year and looking to trial 200 ewes of a different breed to get my faith back in sheep.
Have 300 easycares but don't fancy these wild buggers in a shed, they are fine on the hill.
if you go for a small maternal to lamb in feb you won’t end up with many lambs and they won’t be ready for may. You need to find some better mules imo. Old fashioned as they are can’t beat them for lambing in early imo