- Location
- Left in the middle of nowhere
We used to run mules but felt we couldn't run as many to acre as Lleyns, so my late father decided to go to Lleyns in 2014. He bought useful sized ewes from Ruthin but they had an instinctive desire to return to the hill from which they were hefted from the first day they first came to Lincolnshire. He then bought two massive Lleyn tups. The mules for all their faults were easily trained to the bag & friendly, albeit still a bit on the big side to catch & lamb outside. The closed flock of Lleyns is now full of massive jumping lunatics - each year I try & sling out the jumpers to try & breed it out of the flock - I even kept a ram lamb intact which was friendly & smaller to try & breed these unpleasant traits out of the white faced spooky bitches, but their independent instinct seems to be the last thing to go!!Hoping to cross my Romneys with something else to produce a smaller ewe that can be in wintered and hopefully allow me to carry more ewes to the acre.Currently run three to the acre.These are pretty large girls some over 90 kilos.would like to brink that down to around 65Any thoughts on the breed if tup?currently use Romney no texel and Hampshire.