Crossing sheep

[Paul kenyon]

Hello all
What would be the best ram to use on texel and texel crossewes we are looking for good carcus and easyish lambing

 

[Jerry]

Will be lots of opinions but more info needed.

Selling live or dead, lambing system, keeping your own replacements, etc etc.

 

[Paul kenyon]

Hello
Selling live and replacement ewes

 

[Al R]

Never used or seen one apart from pictures but a Lleyn would surely be a good ram to put over them for self replacing flock without losing to much of the texels looks.
@Jerry has some cracking looking Lleyns

 

[Whitepeak]

Charollais

 

[M-J-G]

Hello all
What would be the best ram to use on texel and texel crossewes we are looking for good carcus and easyish lambing

For killing I'd go Char if you have shelter for them at lambing.
Lleyn onto some to breed replacements

 

[tr250]

Charallais for killing lambs live or dead it doesn’t matter they hang up well and the buyers like them in mart. They are easy lambing but personally I don’t like them as replacements

 

[Woolless]

I've sold Easycare tups to a couple of folk with very 'Texelly' ewes, particularly for use on first time lambers, with the idea of improving maternal traits in their ewe flock.

 

[Nithsdale]

TexX ewes you say?...

Here's 4,352 posts on the subject, across 218 pages spanning 5 1/2 years for you to gloss through

TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

So, I went abit daft... I've got 50 TexX ewes standing in isolation :bag: Iv also got another 20 aged TexX ewes running amongst my commercials I bought one year I was short of numbers... so there's 70 in total! The gimmers need vaccinated for Enzi. Got the vaccine this afternoon, doing them...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[ford4000]

Charollais

Not for replacement ewe lambs!!! Tried some and they are the only ewes I've culled all of them when still correct in teeth and tits as they were nothing but hassle!

 

[Muddyroads]

How about these?

 

[Al R]

How about these?
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That bell wouldn’t half annoy me

 

[Estate fencing.]

I inherited a flock of texel cross ewes that I shepherd. I put a lleyn over them for replacements. Now I have enough ewes I will put a charollais over 75% of them.

These where the weathers in August.

 

[Sheep92]

We have been using lleyn and belclare, now dabbling with easycares again, they seem to cross very well with a half texel ewe

 

[Jrp221]

We use a Berichon on our Texel and Texel x's (Tex x BFL & 3/4 Texel x BFL's), lambs are lively, grow well and killed out well.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Hello all
What would be the best ram to use on texel and texel crossewes we are looking for good carcus and easyish lambing

A decent sized Beltex or a Beltex x Texel for good lambs to sell live. For replacements it's more difficult because if you put a so called maternal breed on them the resultant replacements won't produce lambs as good as their mother's do. A Texel x BFL (although politically incorrect) will produce strong milky replacements

 

[neilo]

For fat lambs there is no better cross than a Charollais on a Texel X ewe, it just works.

However, as above, and coming from a Charollais breeder, DO NOT be tempted to keep any Charollais x females unless you want to make more work.
Most of my Charollais stock rams have come from my best maternal ewes over many generations, but they are still a million miles behind my maternal breeds for maternal instinct and lactation persistency. Most breeders are lambing small numbers in December and creeping hard from early on, so there is little real selection on maternal qualities. Any breeder that tells you otherwise clearly hasn’t lambed any Charollais ewes alongside maternal breeds.

 

[Al R]

A decent sized Beltex or a Beltex x Texel for good lambs to sell live. For replacements it's more difficult because if you put a so called maternal breed on them the resultant replacements won't produce lambs as good as their mother's do. A Texel x BFL (although politically correct) will produce strong milky replacements

They’d be in the colossal category, even rearing twins as ewe lambs on grass only they were going well over the 100kg mark when I did some here

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

They’d be in the colossal category, even rearing twins as ewe lambs on grass only they were going well over the 100kg mark when I did some here

Point taken. The Texel part needs to be Dutch or a Beltex

 

[Optimus]

Hello all
What would be the best ram to use on texel and texel crossewes we are looking for good carcus and easyish lambing

If your not needing to breed any replacements then would be charollais.great lambs live/dead weight and should have no bother lambing them.