crossbred rams

what do people think about this?

what is the big desire for texXBel? why not just texel?

seen a suffolk x BFL the other day. Be interesting when his lambs drop in the rain
Suffolk x BFL doesn't appeal to me, but inbred lines tend to cross out to be a lot tougher than they do pure.
Plenty of mule lambs are born in very poor weather in tough parts of the country.

I good mate crosses Texel and BFL and tells me they are pretty tough sheep.
He puts some crosses to a Char and says they cannot hack the weather as well as the BFL x Tex lambs
 

Farmer_Joe

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Livestock Farmer
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The North
ive a beltex cross texel, looks almost completely texel but smaller head, i bought it to use with gimmers as its a smaller head so easy lambers, that did work as they were easier to lamb and its produced some amazing lambs too, i would buy one again defiantly.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
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Montgomeryshire
all the time though?

is there not a possibility the lambs could take the worst of both breeds?

Much as the relevant breed societies don’t like to admit it, the Beltex/Dutch Texel and the Texel are just different types within the same breed.;)
A cross of those two types will produce something that breeds more consistency than crossbreds involving less closely related breeds. Charollais x Beltex and Suffolk x Beltex are two common examples of where the ram may look good, but they could breed one, t’other, or somewhere in between ime.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
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West Wales
Time to re-post a pic of the infamous Gingemong :cool:
This pair have served 190 ewes so far this year and havnt lost an ounce of condition or weight.
2 rams in the lower picture arn’t home bred.
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idgni

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Location
Armagh
Txl x Bfl on Suffolk chev ewes gives these as a result,
Lambed no problem with great vigor

Ewe lambs Pictured at just under a year and lambing along with their mothers,
Cracking ewe lambs and the ram lambs all we fat along with the rest , char and Suffolk and no difference in price .
I’m on The lookout For another one
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Suffolk x BFL doesn't appeal to me, but inbred lines tend to cross out to be a lot tougher than they do pure.
Plenty of mule lambs are born in very poor weather in tough parts of the country.

I good mate crosses Texel and BFL and tells me they are pretty tough sheep.
He puts some crosses to a Char and says they cannot hack the weather as well as the BFL x Tex lambs
I have a customer who uses BFLxSuff Rams over Shetland ewes, a bloody good cross.
 
What will the teeth be like at 4? 🦷😦
I've also some customers who have bred Shetland X BFL Mules, while they are tremendous ewes the whether lambs are hard to finish. They now put a Texel on the Shetlands and the BFL on the TexelShetland and keep those Mules mated back to the Texel.
Ironically they all reckon the Shetland with a terminal over it is still the best combination.
 

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