Any good??The answer to every body's woes,,,,BELCLARE
They are mostly used for putting prolificacy in to replacements, look some thing like texels but not as strong, a lot of people cross them with Suffolk's ,Any good??
I bought a few ewes and a ram this year so I'm looking forward to seeing the lambsThey are mostly used for putting prolificacy in to replacements, look some thing like texels but not as strong, a lot of people cross them with Suffolk's ,
I found these 2 reports on the Inzac Flock in Athenry in the farmers journal
must be pointed out that these are purebred sheep and not commercial flocks
Never actually used one myself, it would be a good job if you wanted to rapidly increase numbers , cross the whole flock with a belclare, the rams lambs should be OK .I bought a few ewes and a ram this year so I'm looking forward to seeing the lambs
They are meant to be very good and very prolific . @Mutch has recently established a purebred flock of them. Isaac Crilly who has a monitor farm in N Ireland and runs 500 ewes on 70 acres is a great advocate. Isaac was finalist in 2015 FW Sheep Farmer of the year.Any good??
I think he might even cross them with a nz Suffolk and keep replacementsThey are meant to be very good and very prolific . @Mutch has recently established a purebred flock of them. Isaac Crilly who has a monitor farm in N Ireland and runs 500 ewes on 70 acres is a great advocate. Isaac was finalist in 2015 FW Sheep Farmer of the year.
They are meant to be very good and very prolific . @Mutch has recently established a purebred flock of them. Isaac Crilly who has a monitor farm in N Ireland and runs 500 ewes on 70 acres is a great advocate. Isaac was finalist in 2015 FW Sheep Farmer of the year.
The IFJ is the best farming publication I've read, I have a subscription and it's worth every penny. It without doubt, makes the UK farming publications look like a pretty poor show.If you Google "Teagasc INZAC Trials " you will see the references to the Irish Farmers Journal Articles by Mr Carty?. You need to be registered to get on the IFJ site and I have currently used my free 10 articles. Real good paper with sensible techy articles that puts some of ours to shame
Pabbay - Raymond Campbell@Mutch What island?
Does anyone live there, or do the sheep look after themselves?Pabbay - Raymond Campbell
I like your thinking. We could put them on a chiller boat and sail them halfway round the world and back, then sell them as 'fresh'. We'd probably have to do a bit of creative work on the 'carbon footprinting' papers, but I reckon if we all put our heads together we could come up with a story that would convince Joe Public.
The ''untypical'' client base is growing ---which must mean that the ''typical'' client is reducing? Changing market conditions could well accelerate this (in my opinion )
The first 30 EasyRam Lambs were born 10 years ago in 2007. Although we always intended to sell mainly grass fed shearlings increasing yearly demand meant that building up a stock of shearlings has until recently proved quite difficult.Would you be able to explain your system to me in more detail Easy Rams?
You lamb outdoors in I guess April and then sell ram lambs?
How are you set up for recording outdoors?
Do you have your own recording system other than signet?
Sorry for all the questions, just an old shearer and spent many years in NZ and interested in your system.
Many thanks
The first 30 EasyRam Lambs were born 10 years ago in 2007. Although we always intended to sell mainly grass fed shearlings increasing yearly demand meant that building up a stock of shearlings has until recently proved quite difficult.
So to have ram lambs strong enough to sell from late July/Early August we lamb about 20% (150 ewes ) inside in early march. The remainder and all the ewe lambs are lambed outdoors in April and during lambing Nick goes round the sheep twice a day and all lambs are weighed and tagged within 12 hrs of birth.
We have recorded with Signet for 40 years but for a number of reasons we are also now using SIL and we will have figures from SIL (NZ) for all rams to be sold this year. The main reason for this is that SIL will allow us to use background data immediately on any new genetics imported directly or indirectly from NZ and will also allow us to compare our 3 "breeds" -Suffolk Sufftex and Texel"- directly with each other, a facility that we have only currently have available on a single yearly analysis from a research project ( normally done in September which is too late for early ram lamb sales ). By including all the background data of our imported rams I am more confident on the future robustness of our figs particularly for maternal and survival traits. Last year we ultrasound scanned about 1000 lambs and CT scanned about 40 ram lambs.
So far as grazing we are trying to use rotational grazing and like most others are struggling to up our game in grassland management and I am sure this is an on going process. We will sell 70% of our rams as shearlings this year and only 30% as lambs and so the day when we only sell shearlings and lamb everything in April is fast approaching.
This is a question I wish more ram buyers would ask of their breeders. What % of lambs would make it to sale?
This is a question I wish more ram buyers would ask of their breeders