Lleyn x Cheviot

[Ysgythan]

Dad turned up with these gimmer lambs yesterday....never tried either breed before but I quite like them
What are they likely to be like with a beltex on them

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Texel better in my view.

 

[Iain289]

Great looking lambs!
Will the lleyn tup over a chev ewe throw a similar lamb to the chev tup over a lleyn ewe?

I have a stock of chev ewes on the hill now and have bought some chev/lleyns to make up numbers until I have enough of my own pure chevs coming through.Breeding chev mules just now for the fields but thinking of trying a lleyn tup over some of the chevs.

 

[Nithsdale]

Great looking lambs!
Will the lleyn tup over a chev ewe throw a similar lamb to the chev tup over a lleyn ewe?

I have a stock of chev ewes on the hill now and have bought some chev/lleyns to make up numbers until I have enough of my own pure chevs coming through.Breeding chev mules just now for the fields but thinking of trying a lleyn tup over some of the chevs.

They should throw the same, both ways.

I may be wrong but I'd say the lambs in the OP will be out of Cheviot ewes.

 

[ford4000]

Bit off topic I know but has anyone ever put a bfl over lleyn ewes? And what was the end result?

Bit off topic I know but has anyone ever put a bfl over lleyn ewes? And what was the end result?

There's a few hundred aberfield x lleyn ewes here, so a bit of BFL in them, but I wouldn't use a BFL on lleyn!!!

 

[Nithsdale]

There's a few hundred aberfield x lleyn ewes here, so a bit of BFL in them, but I wouldn't use a BFL on lleyn!!!
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So... you've bred yourself some Aberfield SR's

 

[MF135]

Thanks for the advice. I’m short on numbers and was offered a few lleyn gimmers. But I’ve only got bfl tups.

 

[ford4000]

So... you've bred yourself some Aberfield SR's

Since 2016... Ahead of my time!!

 

[Nithsdale]

Since 2016... Ahead of my time!!

You should sue them. It's your product!!

 

[Skintagain]

Texel better in my view.

I would probably agree with you. I had some Cheviot mules, put them to the texel, kept the gimmers put them to a beltex and the lambs were bloody nice things but were very very dumpy and woefully slow growing and ran to fat before getting to much size. Put them to texel and a milenium bleu year after and their lambs were absolute corkers butchers loved them.

Thanks for the advice. I’m short on numbers and was offered a few lleyn gimmers. But I’ve only got bfl tups.

I’d try it if that’s what you have

 

[Ysgythan]

I’d try it if that’s what you have

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