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<blockquote data-quote="jemski" data-source="post: 2092370" data-attributes="member: 2096"><p>Everything everyone has said.... I used to use Dorset Rams but the lambs were just too fat. The crossbreed ewes were great but got too big and fat. Lambs were also on the lazier side - Dorset ram on a Suffolk mule = the laziest, stupidest lambs ever. Wow did they test my patience.... </p><p>I have a handful of the x ewes left. They would be carrying well over 200% and they will probably finish them in the top 20% as they are very good mothers and milk like trains... but they have terrible feet.</p><p>The last ram I bought had some Aussie blood and he was smaller, leaner, less woolly and had a better back end. If I could find another like him I'd be tempted to put some Dorset blood back into the maternal side one day. As long as it had perfect feet. </p><p></p><p>I also bought 30 Dorset x Suffolk ewes off a hobby farmer as she lost her land and didn't want them culled. I felt for her as that's how I started and bought them off her cheap. Not cheap enough!!! Lazy, dumpy little ewes that could barely be bothered to push, let alone stand up after they had lambed! I culled hard after the first lambing! I still have a few of those left, the ones that actually made an effort, and they are very sound, and put to a Charollais wean 2 lambs as big as themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jemski, post: 2092370, member: 2096"] Everything everyone has said.... I used to use Dorset Rams but the lambs were just too fat. The crossbreed ewes were great but got too big and fat. Lambs were also on the lazier side - Dorset ram on a Suffolk mule = the laziest, stupidest lambs ever. Wow did they test my patience.... I have a handful of the x ewes left. They would be carrying well over 200% and they will probably finish them in the top 20% as they are very good mothers and milk like trains... but they have terrible feet. The last ram I bought had some Aussie blood and he was smaller, leaner, less woolly and had a better back end. If I could find another like him I'd be tempted to put some Dorset blood back into the maternal side one day. As long as it had perfect feet. I also bought 30 Dorset x Suffolk ewes off a hobby farmer as she lost her land and didn't want them culled. I felt for her as that's how I started and bought them off her cheap. Not cheap enough!!! Lazy, dumpy little ewes that could barely be bothered to push, let alone stand up after they had lambed! I culled hard after the first lambing! I still have a few of those left, the ones that actually made an effort, and they are very sound, and put to a Charollais wean 2 lambs as big as themselves. [/QUOTE]
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