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Does the hill shepherd get a fair share of the pie?
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<blockquote data-quote="CopperBeech" data-source="post: 7466710" data-attributes="member: 8925"><p>To be fair to the mule, and I might get shouted at by the more progressive guys on here, or those who love a sound bite straight out of the same book everyone seems to have read <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />, I would suggest that some of the very best sheep in the country and by that I mean most profitable, would be mules. Some of the worst also. There are plenty of folk running outdoor lambing, flying mule flocks, grass fed etc and banging out a lot of cracking lambs. There are others housing on slats and feeding home ration and turning out for lambing, and various other different ways that people are probably making a lot of money farming mules without subs or similar. The mules biggest problem is inconsistency, inability to close a flock to a certain extent and the fact it’s hugely popular so farmed by all manner of life forms, good and bad. I lamb outside, keep exlana ewes, forage based etc. But I’m not naive enough to think I am the only one who is right and the only one making any money out of sheep.</p><p></p><p>I’ll probably get lynched by a gang of men in Canterbury shorts, ridge lines and deer boots, riding four wheelers with poly pipe on the front, swinging a plate meter, with heading dig in tow ......</p><p></p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CopperBeech, post: 7466710, member: 8925"] To be fair to the mule, and I might get shouted at by the more progressive guys on here, or those who love a sound bite straight out of the same book everyone seems to have read 😂, I would suggest that some of the very best sheep in the country and by that I mean most profitable, would be mules. Some of the worst also. There are plenty of folk running outdoor lambing, flying mule flocks, grass fed etc and banging out a lot of cracking lambs. There are others housing on slats and feeding home ration and turning out for lambing, and various other different ways that people are probably making a lot of money farming mules without subs or similar. The mules biggest problem is inconsistency, inability to close a flock to a certain extent and the fact it’s hugely popular so farmed by all manner of life forms, good and bad. I lamb outside, keep exlana ewes, forage based etc. But I’m not naive enough to think I am the only one who is right and the only one making any money out of sheep. I’ll probably get lynched by a gang of men in Canterbury shorts, ridge lines and deer boots, riding four wheelers with poly pipe on the front, swinging a plate meter, with heading dig in tow ...... 😉 [/QUOTE]
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