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<blockquote data-quote="exmoor dave" data-source="post: 243709" data-attributes="member: 623"><p>not that interesting, just didn't get on with them, on paper look very similar to a exmoor mule, but i'd be able to breed them myself, bought off several different sellers, but all would be the bigger "west country" type, i'm not trying to bash them, plenty of folk love them but i found they were abit too prolicfic for me, had a tendancy to chuck out very small lambs but were no easier lambing than the exmoor mule, couldn't be sheared as early (may) as a mule, but my worse bugbear, was how there would be significant numbers of ewes dropping out the flock from first lambing onwards, and 5 lambings was the absolute max on our ground because all there teeth were gone, many struggled to get to 4 lambings, and they got poor so easily, </p><p></p><p>where as the mules nearly all do 5 lambings reliable (but 5 seems to be the max for us) and they suit our ground, I am careful who i buy off thou! </p><p></p><p>another reason i like the suffolk x mule is the low ewe depreciation, they comfortably do 7-8 lambings, sometimes more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exmoor dave, post: 243709, member: 623"] not that interesting, just didn't get on with them, on paper look very similar to a exmoor mule, but i'd be able to breed them myself, bought off several different sellers, but all would be the bigger "west country" type, i'm not trying to bash them, plenty of folk love them but i found they were abit too prolicfic for me, had a tendancy to chuck out very small lambs but were no easier lambing than the exmoor mule, couldn't be sheared as early (may) as a mule, but my worse bugbear, was how there would be significant numbers of ewes dropping out the flock from first lambing onwards, and 5 lambings was the absolute max on our ground because all there teeth were gone, many struggled to get to 4 lambings, and they got poor so easily, where as the mules nearly all do 5 lambings reliable (but 5 seems to be the max for us) and they suit our ground, I am careful who i buy off thou! another reason i like the suffolk x mule is the low ewe depreciation, they comfortably do 7-8 lambings, sometimes more. [/QUOTE]
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