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Broken mouthed ewes on twitter
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7077516" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>Fair enough, some have obviously worked with very different mules to any of the various types that I have ever worked with.</p><p></p><p>I have always found them, and their descendants for a generation or two, to perform extremely well if the inputs (be that concs or quality forage) are high enough, but struggle as soon as inputs are reduced.</p><p>I also struggled to keep any to much of an age before teeth started going, and they had a propensity for big teats at lambing that newborn lambs couldn’t cope with alone (which I always assumed was down to bugger all selection for such functional matters).</p><p></p><p>If your mate has found mules that avoid all those drawbacks, then he’s on to a winner (apart from having control of selection/genetics/disease of course), but I have had enough bad experiences as to have been put off them almost as much as I have to Suffolk sheep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7077516, member: 348"] Fair enough, some have obviously worked with very different mules to any of the various types that I have ever worked with. I have always found them, and their descendants for a generation or two, to perform extremely well if the inputs (be that concs or quality forage) are high enough, but struggle as soon as inputs are reduced. I also struggled to keep any to much of an age before teeth started going, and they had a propensity for big teats at lambing that newborn lambs couldn’t cope with alone (which I always assumed was down to bugger all selection for such functional matters). If your mate has found mules that avoid all those drawbacks, then he’s on to a winner (apart from having control of selection/genetics/disease of course), but I have had enough bad experiences as to have been put off them almost as much as I have to Suffolk sheep. [/QUOTE]
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