Hebridian sheep

[Pollman]

Hebridian sheep !! Any for sale

 

[JP1]

Hebridian sheep !! Any for sale

Where are you?

 

[Pollman]

Bury st Edmunds

 

[Coximus]

Ive got 25 3 crop and 20 4 crop ewes in yorkshire near the A1.
Must ask, why would anyone want any? They escape and hover and destroy fences and all they touch....

 

[JP1]

Bury st Edmunds

OK. I will PM you a number for someone

 

[Pollman]

Have about 100 acres of rubbish grass to put them on.

 

[Coximus]

Have about 100 acres of rubbish grass to put them on.

They will do the job then . Good luck and dont be afraid to dispatch any trouble causers, the worst thing in the world is a flock with bad habbits of these bugges.

 

[Woolless]

They will do the job then . Good luck and dont be afraid to dispatch any trouble causers, the worst thing in the world is a flock with bad habbits of these bugges.

IIRC, you used a Texel tup on them with some success?

 

[Coximus]

IIRC, you used a Texel tup on them with some success?

Yes, theyre good milkers and produce a pair of 40kg twins by end of sept out of a texel with ease, off very crap grass. The cross ewes inherit alot of the toughness and ability to grow away on crap forage.
downside is half are black and dont sell well live, and also if the mother is a twit she will lead the lambs astray so no use keeping any back if they turn into twits.
Not much point feeding them any extra or any good forage as theyre "honest" they just grow away at 150-200g a day depending on the tup and dam irregardless of what feed they get.

Ive now folded most of my crosses into my easycares and have used them more than anything to take mature size down to 50-55kg and preserve the ability to thrive on crapper pasture and hold condition on straw and grass.

Just make sure your fences are bloody good, and your dogs are hard as nails, A heb ewe will headbut and go for a dog if it thinks it can, and if ten sheep turn on the dog and the dog hesitates they will mob the poor pooch.
Dont be afraid to shoot and eat a ring leader.
Any that get out, never put them back in.
Down the road or into the freezer.
One on monday is twenty on tuesday and 300 on wednesday.

 

[Coximus]

Yes, theyre good milkers and produce a pair of 40kg twins by end of sept out of a texel with ease, off very crap grass. The cross ewes inherit alot of the toughness and ability to grow away on crap forage.
downside is half are black and dont sell well live, and also if the mother is a twit she will lead the lambs astray so no use keeping any back if they turn into twits.
Not much point feeding them any extra or any good forage as theyre "honest" they just grow away at 150-200g a day depending on the tup and dam irregardless of what feed they get.

Ive now folded most of my crosses into my easycares and have used them more than anything to take mature size down to 50-55kg and preserve the ability to thrive on crapper pasture and hold condition on straw and grass.

Just make sure your fences are bloody good, and your dogs are hard as nails, A heb ewe will headbut and go for a dog if it thinks it can, and if ten sheep turn on the dog and the dog hesitates they will mob the poor pooch.
Dont be afraid to shoot and eat a ring leader.
Any that get out, never put them back in.
Down the road or into the freezer.
One on monday is twenty on tuesday and 300 on wednesday.

Worth adding im in the news this week because I put two escaping hebs in a field of old swales and their lambs, all due to go to mart in the next month or two.

5am the next day they walked into leeds.

Woman's shock at waking up to find herd of sheep invading her home

The sheep turned up in her driveway at 5am in the morning - but left as soon as they couldn't get through the gate to her back garden

www.leeds-live.co.uk

 

[Coximus]

(Worth noting the reporting in abit BS as the escaping sheep had only been within 5 miles of that locaiton for a week !)

 

[John Chance]

Hebridian sheep !! Any for sale

All of them presumably.

 

[Woolless]

How crap is the grass? Would draft hill ewes do a job, with perhaps less hassle involved? @Pollman

 

[Gulli]

Yes, theyre good milkers and produce a pair of 40kg twins by end of sept out of a texel with ease, off very crap grass. The cross ewes inherit alot of the toughness and ability to grow away on crap forage.
downside is half are black and dont sell well live, and also if the mother is a twit she will lead the lambs astray so no use keeping any back if they turn into twits.
Not much point feeding them any extra or any good forage as theyre "honest" they just grow away at 150-200g a day depending on the tup and dam irregardless of what feed they get.

Ive now folded most of my crosses into my easycares and have used them more than anything to take mature size down to 50-55kg and preserve the ability to thrive on crapper pasture and hold condition on straw and grass.

Just make sure your fences are bloody good, and your dogs are hard as nails, A heb ewe will headbut and go for a dog if it thinks it can, and if ten sheep turn on the dog and the dog hesitates they will mob the poor pooch.
Dont be afraid to shoot and eat a ring leader.
Any that get out, never put them back in.
Down the road or into the freezer.
One on monday is twenty on tuesday and 300 on wednesday.

You make it sound so easy

 

[TexelBen]

All of them presumably.

You can't buy them, only rent them for as long as they decide

 

[TheRanger]

Worth adding im in the news this week because I put two escaping hebs in a field of old swales and their lambs, all due to go to mart in the next month or two.

5am the next day they walked into leeds.

Woman's shock at waking up to find herd of sheep invading her home

The sheep turned up in her driveway at 5am in the morning - but left as soon as they couldn't get through the gate to her back garden

www.leeds-live.co.uk

You’re far too honest to make a good salesman