How are their ewe lamb comrades looking? Will you breed them? And if so will they all make the weight for tupping this year?
Easycare Tup Lambs
- Thread starter Kingcustard
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Kingcustard
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Ewe lambs are much the same but more of a tail end.
I don't breed anything as Ewe lambs, leave everything to gimmer and then can properly select what is good and bad. Had a few shockers with lambing Ewe lambs in a good spring and the lambs were too big.
I don't breed anything as Ewe lambs, leave everything to gimmer and then can properly select what is good and bad. Had a few shockers with lambing Ewe lambs in a good spring and the lambs were too big.
Kingcustard
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Just got the prices back.
Top lamb was over £99
The 14 averaged £88.
Had 15 April born lambs away from mule ewes and Texel tups to market this week and they were only £94 and will have commission to come off and the ewes were fed unlike the easycares.
They were planer lambs that I wanted away but they still need to do better than that if the easycares are 88 quid with no real money spent on feed, housing, and the stress of backing ewes and clipping.
I may be being converted here haha
Top lamb was over £99
The 14 averaged £88.
Had 15 April born lambs away from mule ewes and Texel tups to market this week and they were only £94 and will have commission to come off and the ewes were fed unlike the easycares.
They were planer lambs that I wanted away but they still need to do better than that if the easycares are 88 quid with no real money spent on feed, housing, and the stress of backing ewes and clipping.
I may be being converted here haha
Kingcustard
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And the easycares are running the worst field on the place
Are you on Facebook? If so come and join our shedding sheep uk group. People on there would love to see those results
Kingcustard
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Unfortunately I came off Facebook, too much sh!t about Independence up here in Scotland posted hourly and it resulted in my mood being less than happy haha.
Feel free to share if you like though, hopefully it strengthens the cause, it's certainly opened my eyes more than I thought it would.
Feel free to share if you like though, hopefully it strengthens the cause, it's certainly opened my eyes more than I thought it would.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Do you not get penalised for the overfats? Really they should all have gone a week or two ago, to avoid that last bit of fat, but then they'd have been a kilo or two lighter as well. Terminal cross out of them next year should put that right anyway of course.
Good money (& weights) for May born lambs with little cost, but I suspect you don't get a fuzzy feeling looking at a penful of them....
Kingcustard
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Not sure exactly how they paid per grade til I get the kill sheet to study it myself.
I actually like the look of them after a year of ownership, at first I thought they all looked like they were on deaths door but it's actually just what they look like.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
@neilo "If an animal makes you money and doesn't give you hassle, you get to like how it looks". Saw that quote in a Nuffield scholar report long since (although I like to think of mine as at least passable to the non-initiated).
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Yes, I can fully appreciate that, but......
Jameshenry
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- Location
- Cornwall
I for one would certainly rather look at my shedder lambs than a shapely texel/charollais that needs endless spraying to keep maggot free during the summer, even clik doesn't seem to have lasted it's full term this year which was a proper pain, shedders will be staying here for certain
Spent day dagging / cobalt drenching lambs. Flystrike still an issue here. All sired easycare and lleyns were spotless, no dirty behinds. The majority of charolais thrived well and loads weighed like lead, but the ones that didnt, were right dirty. Easycare ewe lambs have lovely tiny narrow little heads on them that bodes well for easy lambing. Overall the charolais nudged out the others for weight gain, but also needed added labour of dagging. Probably run both breeds of sires again other then lleyn who died and wont be replaced until we see how the easycares pan out.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Had a text from a tup client last night. He'd killed 18 tup lambs off a tup bred by me, 19.67kg average: 11 x U3L, 2 x U3H, 1 x U4L, 3 x R3L, 1 x R3H. Well in front of his other Easycare lambs and similar to his Texel x lambs.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
That recording pallaver is clearly a complete waste of time....
What were his ears like?
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Another trait to select for, eh Tim?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
They had high prices for fancy stuff at the Exlana sale this year, but the 'fancy' was based more on the ebvs than the bonny heids and bloom dip.
That recording pallaver is clearly a complete waste of time....
What were his ears like?
it’s coming...once everybody can turn them out like @Woolless some clever buggers will have to find an edge...