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<blockquote data-quote="Nithsdale" data-source="post: 8130333" data-attributes="member: 17508"><p>I'm the resident expert on this cross I think!</p><p></p><p></p><p>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 <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦🏻♂️" title="Man facepalming: light skin tone :man_facepalming_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f926-1f3fb-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming_tone1:" /> (but that was back in the days long before I even thought about scanning, so management would sort that no doubt).</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nithsdale, post: 8130333, member: 17508"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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