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Would you need more tups to tighten up the lambing , or use teasers ?I'm thinking I'll be doing the same next year. 17 day tupping period to lamb 13-30 Apr.
Would you need more tups to tighten up the lambing , or use teasers ?I'm thinking I'll be doing the same next year. 17 day tupping period to lamb 13-30 Apr.
Teasers I think. Want to keep tup ratio at 1:100. Wil help identify fertile genetics in the ewes.Would you need more tups to tighten up the lambing , or use teasers ?
Bism ! Reminds me of my Granny long ago!View attachment 1034930This bism jumped in to this new plantation two days ago, then produced two cracking lleyn cross lambs, and has now disappeared
I think that's the crux of the problem- he can't find the feckerHow do you find the lleyn as a cross over the blackie
Very easycare! And rounded up at the end of the summer with a .243 !I think that's the crux of the problem- he can't find the fecker
Its my first time with lleyn crossesBism ! Reminds me of my Granny long ago!
If anyone got called a Bism, they were off the Xmas card list !
How do you find the lleyn as a cross over the blackie ?
Thats the rollercoaster ride of lambiing blackies.I think that's the crux of the problem- he can't find the fecker
Thats the rollercoaster ride of lambiing blackies.
Even I'm not that daft!Best thing for them is find someone else that’s daft enough too take them.
I think next Monday I am going to be lambing, shearing and mowing for silage on the same day. I think I need some staff.
Some breeds crap gold sovereigns too…Someone will be along shortly to claim that some breeds will lamb themselves and shear themselves, leaving you free to crack on with the mowing.
Don’t believe them. I was chasing one such Hogg round this morning, with a correctly presented lamb that died before it could exit the narrow pelvis.
I could send the wife who has never seem a sheep to go and "observe" 3000 of them once a day because as we all know lamb when you have these breeds lambing the easiest time of the year.Someone will be along shortly to claim that some breeds will lamb themselves and shear themselves, leaving you free to crack on with the mowing.
Don’t believe them. I was chasing one such Hogg round this morning, with a correctly presented lamb that died before it could exit the narrow pelvis.
How do you find the lleyn as a cross over the blackie ?
Apologies for not asking you first oh great resident expert!I'm the resident expert on this cross I think!
I really liked them. The stock we had produced a small, blocky ewe which survived off very little. Used to put them to the Texel, can't really remember the lambing %'s we got but I do remember you always had a few of these crosses were the last to lamb... singles... and quote often hung (but that was back in the days long before I even thought about scanning, so management would sort that no doubt).
Skins could be quite varied but that may have been our mixture of (bought in) Blackies. The wedders sold well in the live ring, fattened easier to handy weights than Mules did at the time and most importantly the Lleyn lambs survived at lambing where the BFL lambs just wouldn't - first lambing with both side by side was 2006 we had torrential rain for a fortnight solid. I remember losing very few Lleyn lambs and brought in next to none... every single Blackie which lambed Mule lambs came into the shed.
The only ewe ever to successfully rear all 3 of her triplets on this farm was a LleynxBlackie. She just ran inbye with the rest of the Texel lambs, no special attention or extra feed. She didn't look great, but the lambs did ok.
I've said on here before if I had a block of hill and had no choice but to to run Blackies, I'd be breeding Lleyn crosses for the better ground
Easycare or Exlana is what you need haha.Someone will be along shortly to claim that some breeds will lamb themselves and shear themselves, leaving you free to crack on with the mowing.
Don’t believe them. I was chasing one such Hogg round this morning, with a correctly presented lamb that died before it could exit the narrow pelvis.
Apologies for not asking you first oh great resident expert!
My son has 21 smart blackie gimmers that have just lambed to an easydam texel. Lambed some very smart lambs, so he’s delighted after the crossing blue tup I bought turned out to be utterly feckin useless!
Anyway the Incheoch lleyn ram I have is smart, but just threw too many big lambs to the Romney Hoggs this yr, so binning that idea.
Hopefully using the lleyn over the blackies will make as functional a sheep as you found !