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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 8188207" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I run a few Charollais ewes, selling yearling tups, and have done for (scarily) 31 years. They do alright financially, but up and down, and they’ll never make us rich. I do know though, that we have lower feed & marketing costs than most, so plenty will be losing hand over fist if they ever worked it out. I currently lamb around 150 pedigree ewes, as a part time enterprise alongside a commercial flock and arable cropping.</p><p></p><p>Whenever I’ve sat down to work out costings (a habit I try to avoid), the crossbred sheep earn more per ha, or per £ of capital invested. With current lamb prices, the commercial sheep would make the economics of the pedigree flock even more laughable.</p><p></p><p>However, we all need a hobby, and I get to avoid buying in crossing tups, so saving several £k going out each year, as well as getting to marvel at the magnificence, every year, of the best ram I’ve ever bred….. shortly before it dies of something ridiculous. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /></p><p></p><p>As for keeping Charollais x mules as commercial females, are you insane? You’ve presumably seen how terrible Charollais are, in terms of both maternal ability and lactation persistency, so why on earth would you want to keep their daughters as a commercial flock? I have about 50 crossbred Charollais ewes and I curse them all, at every lambing time! My experience of other bloodlines, and our recording going back 30 years, show our Charollais as being well above average on maternal traits, but they’re still p*ss poor compared to the Highlander based commercial flock.</p><p></p><p>To surmise, stick with a proper commercial breed, producing finished lambs….. unless you want an addictive hobby that’ll pay it’s way (at best).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 8188207, member: 348"] I run a few Charollais ewes, selling yearling tups, and have done for (scarily) 31 years. They do alright financially, but up and down, and they’ll never make us rich. I do know though, that we have lower feed & marketing costs than most, so plenty will be losing hand over fist if they ever worked it out. I currently lamb around 150 pedigree ewes, as a part time enterprise alongside a commercial flock and arable cropping. Whenever I’ve sat down to work out costings (a habit I try to avoid), the crossbred sheep earn more per ha, or per £ of capital invested. With current lamb prices, the commercial sheep would make the economics of the pedigree flock even more laughable. However, we all need a hobby, and I get to avoid buying in crossing tups, so saving several £k going out each year, as well as getting to marvel at the magnificence, every year, of the best ram I’ve ever bred….. shortly before it dies of something ridiculous. :banghead: As for keeping Charollais x mules as commercial females, are you insane? You’ve presumably seen how terrible Charollais are, in terms of both maternal ability and lactation persistency, so why on earth would you want to keep their daughters as a commercial flock? I have about 50 crossbred Charollais ewes and I curse them all, at every lambing time! My experience of other bloodlines, and our recording going back 30 years, show our Charollais as being well above average on maternal traits, but they’re still p*ss poor compared to the Highlander based commercial flock. To surmise, stick with a proper commercial breed, producing finished lambs….. unless you want an addictive hobby that’ll pay it’s way (at best). [/QUOTE]
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