Easy Ram Texel on Swale or Blackface

[MDL POWERUP]

I have nz texel (elite) x nz romney ewes. Weigh 90kgs and are way outdone by texel x lleyn 70kg ewes. They aren't as milky, resemble a goat (which would explain 'lambing ease'). I would suspect a UK texel bred on performance from grass would leave a better confirmation lamb and a swalw would still chuck it out with ease.

 

[exmoorromney]

I have nz texel (elite) x nz romney ewes. Weigh 90kgs and are way outdone by texel x lleyn 70kg ewes. They aren't as milky, resemble a goat (which would explain 'lambing ease'). I would suspect a UK texel bred on performance from grass would leave a better confirmation lamb and a swalw would still chuck it out with ease.

Is it an Easyram NZ texel?

 

[MDL POWERUP]

Is it an Easyram NZ texel?

So I was told when I bought the hoggs and he seemed a good bloke. Maybe the nz romney in them was so bad it made the nz texel look bad

 

[M-J-G]

So I was told when I bought the hoggs and he seemed a good bloke. Maybe the nz romney in them was so bad it made the nz texel look bad

I've spoken to a couple of Kiwi farmers who said their Texels weren't prolific enough.
At that time I was considering them, but that put me off the idea of them.

 

[MDL POWERUP]

I've spoken to a couple of Kiwi farmers who said their Texels weren't prolific enough.
At that time I was considering them, but that put me off the idea of them.

I don't understand the point in a shapeless texel? Just go for something that has always been bred as maternal? These ewes are all leg and hungry buggers

 

[M-J-G]

I don't understand the point in a shapeless texel? Just go for something that has always been bred as maternal? These ewes are all leg and hungry buggers

I don't see the point in paying a premium for that.

 

[Woolless]

I don't understand the point in a shapeless texel? Just go for something that has always been bred as maternal? These ewes are all leg and hungry buggers

I think the way they'll have been selected in NZ will have resulted in them being fairly similar to Lleyn, much more suited to minimal shepherding.