Dorsets

[CopperBeech]

Who keeps them?

I'm after some ewe lambs or draft ewes.

Help!

 

[Nithsdale]

@taff runs a flock of them IIRC

 

[andybk]

Who keeps them?

I'm after some ewe lambs or draft ewes.

Help!

when are you going to lamb them ? (wilton sept should be a few ) but may sales would have been better for polls , autumn sold ones are the sorted ones that dont get in lamb in may ie the ones that dont lamb anytime of year ,
ps dorset horn wont lamb out of season
dorset breeders are a good bunch , look up David Rossiter , or Jim dufosee or Nicky Jesse

 

[toasty]

I keep a small flock of them to lamb early, put rams in yesterday, I think but might be wrong there's a sale at Worcester on Saturday.

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

Must admit poll dorsets are the one breed that could get me to have a few sheep again! Shut up @Gator i didn't ask for your opinion

 

[CopperBeech]

Going to lamb them in September.

Just using them as a base to breed up from.

Do ppl sell in lamb ewes?

 

[Jerry]

Going to lamb them in September.

Just using them as a base to breed up from.

Do ppl sell in lamb ewes?

If I don't like the few I've bought to lamb early you can have them as couples.......;-) ;-) ;-)

 

[Penmoel]

As @toasty said , if you want pedigree http://www.mccartneys.co.uk/Livestock_Auctions/Pedigree_Sales/Forthcoming_Sales/page-2


Richard and Rob Hole also have a sale before long again pedigree
https://www.kivells.com/?q=agricult...erborne-production-sale-pedigree-poll-dorsets

As @andybk says Jim Dufossee and David Rossiter would point you in the right direction, also Adrian Dufossee has good commercial ewes.

There are some for sale on the Society web site too..
http://www.dorsetsheep.org.uk/index.php/sales/sheep-for-sale
Those Cornella ewes at Corntown Glamorgan should be good ewes he bought most of David Matthews old flock.

 

[andybk]

Going to lamb them in September.

Just using them as a base to breed up from.

Do ppl sell in lamb ewes?

dorset breeders make you want to bang your head , they keep promoting rams instead of the ewes , crossed with a charollais they take some beating , there is always a shortage of good pure ewes ,i have said time and again push the ewes and sell rams for breeding instead as a terminal sire , being able to breed out of season without cost of sponges and all the piddling about is a real bonus ,
if you have winter grass , idea arable sideline with ground and labour to spare in winter , just watch the feet some good some awful

 

[andybk]

@Penmoel , i forgot Rich / Rob Hole . oops lol

 

[Penmoel]

Going to lamb them in September.

Do ppl sell in lamb ewes?

Rob Hole's sale on 12th August has some in lambers

 

[andybk]

just noticed quite a few older ones at sedgemore special ewe sale tomorrow
http://www.gth.net/uploads/pdf/Annual_060717.pdf

 

[Gator]

Must admit poll dorsets are the one breed that could get me to have a few sheep again! Shut up @Gator i didn't ask for your opinion

 

[neilo]

, being able to breed out of season without cost of sponges and all the piddling about is a real bonus ,

Don't the lambs make a good fiver a head less than similar weights from 'normal' sheep? That would pay for sponging and some....

@CopperBeech , as you already have them running about, would a Charmoise X female not lamb as easily out of season? Any Charmoise x NZ Suffolks running about?

 

[Sandpit Farm]

There is also Geoff Davey in Somerset. He has 1000 or so ewes and I'm sure he would sell you FM or brokers.

 

[Man_in_black]

Charmoise X female not lamb as easily out of season?

Steady Neil, that almost sounded like you finding a positive about charmoise!!

 

[andybk]

Don't the lambs make a good fiver a head less than similar weights from 'normal' sheep? That would pay for sponging and some....

@CopperBeech , as you already have them running about, would a Charmoise X female not lamb as easily out of season? Any Charmoise x NZ Suffolks running about?

not when crossed with a charollais , many of the live easter champions down here are dorset x charollais ,you can pick the crossbreds out in the dark compared to pures . need a blocky char though , not those big cart horses

 

[CopperBeech]

Don't the lambs make a good fiver a head less than similar weights from 'normal' sheep? That would pay for sponging and some....

@CopperBeech , as you already have them running about, would a Charmoise X female not lamb as easily out of season? Any Charmoise x NZ Suffolks running about?

Funnily enough......

Got a bunch of cham x NZ Suffolk mule, cham x exlana and some other combos which should lamb out of season.

Even got a cham x dorset

Like I said, the dorset will just be the starting point.....

 

[IEM]

What are the chances of Exlanas breeding out of season? If you look at some of the breeds that went into them?
Also the last 2 years I have had a couple of 'immaculate conception' lambs appear in august so I bet some would lamb in September. Save all that messing around with loads of wool

 

[CopperBeech]

Yep they will lamb in august! We shall see about September!