Inverdale Shedders

[Downunder]

(bugger! All thumbs here again)

Ahhhh! So a double headomax = no lambs and a blocked passage!

 

[neilo]

(bugger! All thumbs here again)

Ahhhh! So a double headomax = no lambs and a blocked passage!

Yes, so out the side door and on it's way to a Champion's rosette to spread the Headomax gene far and wide.

 

[CharcoalWally]

Means they have massive show pony heads, causing lambing difficulties.

Not show ponies, they have tiny heads. More like a head like a Charolais bull.

Now that analogy works..

(Sorry @unlacedgecko , it's Pedant Weekend...)

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Are these the ones you're after @unlacedgecko ?

Edit - Sorry, it was @Downunder asking about the myomax

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Are these the ones you're after @unlacedgecko ?

Edit - Sorry, it was @Downunder asking about the myomax

Proper sheep there

 

[unlacedgecko]

Are these the ones you're after @unlacedgecko ?

Edit - Sorry, it was @Downunder asking about the myomax

Haven't they got sh!t feet and poor shedding ability?

I'm after a highly fertile ewe which sheds, has good feet and will rear her progeny off just grass = Exlana.

Finances dictate that I'll be breeding up from a draft hill ewe base. Though inverdale may be a way to rapidly increase lambing percentage.

 

[Downunder]

Are these the ones you're after @unlacedgecko ?

Edit - Sorry, it was @Downunder asking about the myomax

Thanks for your efforts unlacedgecko no I'm not looking for any only trying to understand it a bit more.
The a inlamb dorper ewe at the Mart a few weeks back. I went into her pen to check her teeth, well! She might have been small the dam thing can fly!!! Three pens she went into! No way that thing was coming home with me

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Haven't they got sh!t feet and poor shedding ability?

I'm after a highly fertile ewe which sheds, has good feet and will rear her progeny off just grass = Exlana.

Finances dictate that I'll be breeding up from a draft hill ewe base. Though inverdale may be a way to rapidly increase lambing percentage.

It wasn't a serious post
But they do answer the criticism of shedders being goats

 

[neilo]

It wasn't a serious post
But they do answer the criticism of shedders being goats

There’s no reason at all that shredders couldn’t be selected and bred up to have (some) shape, but there would inevitably be a trade off with lambing ease. Most breeders of shedding sheep would likely consider that the number one trait?

 

[neilo]

Haven't they got sh!t feet and poor shedding ability?

I'm after a highly fertile ewe which sheds, has good feet and will rear her progeny off just grass = Exlana.

Finances dictate that I'll be breeding up from a draft hill ewe base. Though inverdale may be a way to rapidly increase lambing percentage.

A Cambridge ram will breed in prolificacy just as an Aberdale ram would, but at a fraction of the price of hiring one of those.

Alternatively, maybe contact anyone on here that may have been testing a few of their own. If you could find a Welsh X ram that was carrying Inverdale, you’d maybe be another step closer to shedding genetics than if you started with a Texel?

 

[Bury the Trash]

There’s no reason at all that shredders couldn’t be selected and bred up to have (some) shape, but there would inevitably be a trade off with lambing ease. Most breeders of shedding sheep would likely consider that the number one trait?

they are same as lleyn for ease of lambing ir.

Shedding would be the first aim of buying shedding sheep surely,

isn't it relatively easy to improve conformation genes over a few yrs, its the fast meat growth rate and from forage thats far harder to gain ??

 

[neilo]

they are same as lleyn for ease of lambing ir.

Shedding would be the first aim of buying shedding sheep surely,

isn't it relatively easy to improve conformation genes over a few yrs, its the fast meat growth rate and from forage thats far harder to gain ??

As good as Lleyn? You’re putting me off them now......

 

[Woolless]

There’s no reason at all that shredders couldn’t be selected and bred up to have (some) shape, but there would inevitably be a trade off with lambing ease. Most breeders of shedding sheep would likely consider that the number one trait?

I've got fully shedding ewes with a fair bit of Texel in them here. You certainly wouldn't mistake them for goats but they're lambing outside largely trouble free. It's just selective breeding, isn't it?

 

[Bones]

Any more word on the inverdale shredders,?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Any more word on the inverdale shredders,?

I'm breeding my own.

These are inverdale carrying shedder x ewe lambs, born last year. This autumn they'll go to a double myomax high index shedder tup.

The double myomax inverdale shedder tup lamb will be born 2022.

Credits: ewe is performance recorded easycare bred up from blackies by Tom Welsh.

Inverdale tup 3/4 texel 1/4 cheviot from @MJT

Double myomax shedder tup from @Woolless

All great guys to deal with. I wouldn't hesitate to buy stock sight unseen from any of them in future.

 

[Johngee]

Any more word on the inverdale shredders,?

Not inverdale but innovis seem to have been developing a shedding version of the aberfield.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Not inverdale but innovis seem to have been developing a shedding version of the aberfield.View attachment 955776

Aberfield. It’s got BFL blood in. I’m prejudiced and wouldn’t have one on farm.

 

[Bones]

Aberfield. It’s got BFL blood in. I’m prejudiced and wouldn’t have one on farm.

What else is in it

 

[unlacedgecko]

What else is in it

Texel

 

[SteveHants]

Christ, for a company called "Innovis", they are slow off the mark.....