Greythundercloudys
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What are these sheep like, l see there are some ewe lmbs at Stirling tomorrow, are they worth a go. Are they the bred of the future.
Cheviot mules, are they the new bred of the future.
- Thread starter Greythundercloudys
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- Location
- Scot Borders
Where have you been last 8 weeks?
Might be 1 or 2 threads on this
Might be 1 or 2 threads on this
Greythundercloudys
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O, lv never noticed those threads. I'm always late to the action.
yorkshire8
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I hope so!!
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- Scot Borders
Clearly spending way too much time in the oooooh! Thread
livestock 1
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Take plenty £££££ with you
I have been producing them for the last 12 years ,one of my buyers has been with me from the start ,bought my first draw this year and they keep them for ewes, go to the texel tup and they regularly top the live trade with the lambs. The other thing that is rarely mentioned is that the wedder lambs are a very saleable commodity.They seem to be the "cross" of the moment - wonder if they`ll still be so hot in a few years time. Time will tell.....
- Location
- West Wales
Hadn’t even noticed this either, surely the result is a big mule?Where have you been last 8 weeks?
Might be 1 or 2 threads on this
I’ve got 25 Cheviots this year to make up a lorry. They are BIG! not particularly excited to see the resulting lambs as they could be to big?
- Location
- Northumberland
They would do just as well putting a Texel on the Cheviots and keeping the ewe lambs for breeders.
there’s Cheviots and Cheviots (and Cheviots and Cheviots and Cheviots) and that’s without the other Cheviots or the foreign Cheviots.
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
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Lambing Cheviots to a Texel on a hill ain’t a lot of fun.
- Location
- Northumberland
True,but if its that bad,why not just have the Cheviots pure. The texel x wedder lambs will be miles better than cheviot mule wedders.
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Better but not miles better.
Well, it`s a bit like breeding swales pure!! A good mule gimmer lamb and certainly at present a good cheviot mule gimmer lamb will make a vast difference to the bottom line.
I would think a cheviot mule ewe would be more prolific than a texel x cheviot too.
- Location
- Northumberland
I have both and have found no difference in prolificacy.Probably the Tex x Cheviot are slightly ahead but the lambs are much better quality.
- Location
- North Antrim
What do you cross the tex/chev with?
- Location
- Northumberland
Just Texel again.
- Location
- Lancashire
Was a pen of nice chevi mules shearlings at Meltham fair yesterday, made 150, just couldnt get my hands out of mi pockets, suddenly lost all movement to bid. strange
tempted though
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