- Location
- West Wales
Mine are mostly to charolais or 3/4 chartex.I certainly don't want them having lambs 'that need lots of help to live'. I expect them to have two on their own, mother up and look after them, as an older ewe would. Certainly happier for them to be 4 kg rather than 5 though.
I would never leave a fast growing lamb like a Charollais on a hogg as twins, but slower growing Beltexes seem to work OK, without dragging the hogg down too much.
Don’t have to attend to many as their mainly welsh mules or texX’s... I can see the sense in keeping them tight, apart from the odd idiot they are usually brilliant, that’s the same for all white faced sheep, black faced they tend to all be idiots, mother and daughter.