Border Leicester
- Thread starter Pollman
- Start date
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
could be toxoplasmosis....get a blood test on ewes.....welcome to the forum BTW and good luck
- Location
- Scottsih Borders
Border Leicesters need to be treated as if they are Bluefaced Leicesters - with kindness, sympathy, tolerance and tender loving care. But a New Zealander or a shepherdlesser will be along shortly to provide contrary advice.
Although they still need to be tested in case they have any deficiencies/diseases which are causing poor performance.
I think my get up and go just got up and went
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- Fife
A shepherdlesser?
- Location
- Northumberland
Have a word with E.S. Lady from near Middlesboro i think.(maybe near @Northeastfarmer neck of the woods) She might give you a few tips.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I think he means someone that doesn't want to pi55 around endlessly mollycoddling their sheep but I await the proper reply with interest.
@Pollman are these problems just the result of inbreeding? @Agrivator has a point, in that inbreeding in the BL/BFL is what makes them a good crossing sheep and so you need to put up with a certain degree of hassle in the purebreds.
- Location
- North Antrim
It's another word for someone with a bit of common sense.
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Someone who breeds sheep fit for purpose instead of pissing about delusionally measuring milkiness by ear length
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- Fife
I love this website.
I'll add that to my resume, along with "not a stockman cos I have a quad bike".
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
How did they justify that piece of wisdom?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Funnily enough, the Border Leicester is a markedly better sheep out in Australia where they have indeed bred for function.
Some progressive Border Leicester society members here wanted to bring back Aus genetics quite recently - to improve the UK breed. This was shot down by the more "stuck in their ways" older breeders - who are incidentally blamed for the decline of the breed...
Some progressive Border Leicester society members here wanted to bring back Aus genetics quite recently - to improve the UK breed. This was shot down by the more "stuck in their ways" older breeders - who are incidentally blamed for the decline of the breed...
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- Fife
The more I learn about breeds and breed societies the more I realise they're all boll.ocks.
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Not all.
Societies are usually set up with good intentions. It is the members who are the problem, especially if they become too inwardly looking.
In the BL instance above, the society office bearers were behind the breeder who proposed brining the genetics back from Aus. But in a council, it goes to a vote where it went no farther. The whole needed to be on board, because of the costs involved.
It's amazing what you learn when you go on a few dates with a breed secretary
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- Fife
why young and stupid ? there are small tweeks you can do to use barrow in mud , and maybe as the person said wants to spend more time with family than his stock , that's the difference between a stockman ond someone that looks after stock imo ,
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Some folks are small minded pettied twunts.
It boils their pi$$ when someone does something they perceive as wrong, or can't be done.. then you get comments like that saying you're not a real stockman
If you're pi$$ing someone off, you're doing something right
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- Fife
Some folks are small minded pettied twunts.
It boils their pi$$ when someone does something they perceive as wrong, or can't be done.. then you get comments like that saying you're not a real stockman
If you're pi$$ing someone off, you're doing something right
That was back in 2016. A lot has changed since then, but I still seen pretty good at pis$ing people off!
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I think I remember reading that post at the time and barely believing it! It ranks up there with being told that outdoor lambers only did it that way as they were afraid of hard work. And that from someone who hadn't changed his pants for three weeks over lambing one year. Actually, you may have been involved in that stramash as well
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- Fife
I think I remember reading that post at the time and barely believing it! It ranks up there with being told that outdoor lambers only did it that way as they were afraid of hard work. And that from someone who hadn't changed his pants for three weeks over lambing one year. Actually, you may have been involved in that stramash as well
Undoubtedly I was. Opinionated and gobby, that's me! ?
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