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Home bred pure easycare ewe hogg with myomax shedder ram lamb.
a future stock ram.
Lambing ease gestation length
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Home bred pure easycare ewe hogg with myomax shedder ram lamb.
a future stock ram.
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Cull Shetlands doing it hard but growing their inverdale lambs well on zero input downland.
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More recent Shetland photos. Will be weaning 07 Aug.
300+ Shetland ewes for sale then. More info in livestock for sale section.
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But it's from a single!? Isn't it far more important to use rams from twins for prolifically than Replacement ewes from twins?View attachment 1046080View attachment 1046081
Home bred pure easycare ewe hogg with myomax shedder ram lamb.
Looks well though
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Long journey, but selected the stock rams for this year. Hair coated dorpers from a grass fed low input flock. Excited to see what they produce over the Shetland inverdales and G1/2 Shetland easycares.
Stud program of easycare inverdale, inverdale double myomax continues. Will flag tagging stud females and tagging lambs at birth this year. A bit of farm level recording.
I’d say so. That’s one benefit of AI, you know the gestation length. It’s only one variable though.
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So i could have a romney x texel and call it an inverdale ?
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You can call it whatever you want. But inverdale refers to a specific fertility gene, as explained earlier in this thread.
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Breeder doesn't use a dog, so they're ignorant dog during fighting barstewards. Fortunately our pack enjoy a challenge
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A couple of coat closeups. I think these are an exciting and significant step towards breeding a flock of true hair sheep.
It will be interesting how their feet hold up, always thought they would be a good addition to the easycare
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Breeder doesn't use a dog, so they're ignorant dog during fighting barstewards. Fortunately our pack enjoy a challenge
How did he do anything with them without a dog, given that you posted above that they were from slow input, grass based system? Presumably they don’t run to a bucket…
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They're very docile. He walked behind them.
But I agree, the thought of having sheep and no dog makes me want to vomit.
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I saw some sheep a month or so ago, that were a criss cross of Easycare and Dorper. They looked like ‘Easycares with a bit more shape’ to me, but with a few that hadn’t shed cleanly and one or two coloured ones.
Incidentally, the owner, who used to have a big flock of Dorpers herself, recommended the vendor of @unlacedgecko ‘s new rams as likely to have sorted feet problems. If he was Mv accredited, I may well have paid a visit myself.
She did also say that ‘white’ dorpers tendedto have better feet…
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I couldn't find any whites that weren't small holder.
These are going over Shetland crosses, so I'm expecting a real pick n mix of colours in the lambs.
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I’m quite tempted by them, but most seem to be run by smallholders or good-lifers. Getting new bloodlines in the future would be problematic I would think.
A young wife is almost as good? For chasing sheep that is....
I have zero chance of having (another) young wife, so I'm thinking on a sheepdog. The one Lab was showing some promise, but has given up on sheep now, for pheasant flushing....
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I quite often see older dogs for sale that would present good value to someone running a smaller number of sheep.A young wife is almost as good? For chasing sheep that is....
I have zero chance of having (another) young wife, so I'm thinking on a sheepdog. The one Lab was showing some promise, but has given up on sheep now, for pheasant flushing....
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Close the flock and