Lleyns

[Andrewapril]

Complete nutters! Destroyed a five bar gate! Lifted the gate to the trailer off its hinges!
was only trying to move them!!!

 

[M-J-G]

Well exclaimed!!

 

[DrDunc]

Complete nutters! Destroyed a five bar gate! Lifted the gate to the trailer off its hinges!
was only trying to move them!!!

That's just their enthusiastic nature. Wait until they're lambing outdoors in the snow, that's when their destructive survival instincts fully kick in

Don't ever cross Blackie ewes with a Lleyn, and keep the females for breeding on rough grazing. The dour determined Welsh genes go not mix well with the psychotic, homicidal, feral horned horrors from the Heather

The only things that got any enjoyment from that experimental cross breed were my sheepdogs. Though thankfully almost none needed caught for lambing assistance!

 

[M-J-G]

I'd class them as being a lot easier to deal with than a Blackie.
I really like them as ewes, a bit skittish for gathering and they're keen on a scrap with the dog, but other than that I'm all for them.

 

[Jerry]

But you get some decent lambs….

Don’t mind them standing up to the dog, just good maternal trait.

They can be lively but again think that’s a positive..

 

[M-J-G]

But you get some decent lambs….

Don’t mind them standing up to the dog, just good maternal trait.

They can be lively but again think that’s a positive..

I don't mind them standing up to a dog, but when they attack the dog and the dog defends himself sometimes there can be a bit of aftermath.

I have one that has been lame on a front leg for a month or so now.

 

[steveR]

I don't mind them standing up to a dog, but when they attack the dog and the dog defends himself sometimes there can be a bit of aftermath.

I have one that has been lame on a front leg for a month or so now.

Dog or Sheep?

 

[mixedfmr]

Complete nutters! Destroyed a five bar gate! Lifted the gate to the trailer off its hinges!
was only trying to move them!!!

when I first started with them, was told, two types
Calm and UNcalm
All ok for 15 + yrs, and then a couple of nutters who are going this time, If i get any older with those they wont bounce off me any more, I ll be on the floor
Got to breed out the wild ones

 

[M-J-G]

Dog or Sheep?

If it were the dog that came off worst I'd have a lame dog and a cull ewe

 

[Nithsdale]

They can be a bit wild as gimmers but settle down fine. No worse as any other breed really

Don't ever cross Blackie ewes with a Lleyn, and keep the females for breeding on rough grazing. The dour determined Welsh genes go not mix well with the psychotic, homicidal, feral horned horrors from the Heather

Though thankfully almost none needed caught for lambing assistance!

Nothing wrong with that cross. They make a very good low input ewe

 

[DrDunc]

Nothing wrong with that cross. They make a very good low input ewe

Aye, the Lleyn out the Blackie fleshes herself well, and has wool that doesn't attract so many of our wet summers' maggots. When she's put back to the Lleyn, a pair of fat lambs from her make a very good profit

Fast dogs and good fences are a must though

 

[glensman]

Aye, the Lleyn out the Blackie fleshes herself well, and has wool that doesn't attract so many of our wet summers' maggots. When she's put back to the Lleyn, a pair of fat lambs from her make a very good profit

Fast dogs and good fences are a must though

Lleyn out of swale makes a superb easy kept/care highly maternal ewe.

 

[Andrewapril]

what about a llleyn out of a suffork l wonder?

 

[M-J-G]

what about a llleyn out of a suffork l wonder?

It would definitely dope them down a bit

 

[sheepdogtrail]

But you get some decent lambs….

Don’t mind them standing up to the dog, just good maternal trait.

They can be lively but again think that’s a positive..

What's not to like about sheep looking after themselves. Strong maternal traits make lamb production a viable business. Without it in your ewes it makes a shepherds life difficult.

 

[spark_28]

That's just their enthusiastic nature. Wait until they're lambing outdoors in the snow, that's when their destructive survival instincts fully kick in

Don't ever cross Blackie ewes with a Lleyn, and keep the females for breeding on rough grazing. The dour determined Welsh genes go not mix well with the psychotic, homicidal, feral horned horrors from the Heather

The only things that got any enjoyment from that experimental cross breed were my sheepdogs. Though thankfully almost none needed caught for lambing assistance!

We'rent they trialling that very cross at an SRUC place? I think Tyndrum. Sure I walked passed it in June when I done the west highland way

 

[Nithsdale]

what about a llleyn out of a suffork l wonder?

I had 1... and only 1. Bought her in a pen of Lleyn X gimmers - the rest were out of Texels. I often wondered her makeup - was she a Suffolk from a Lleyn ewe or a Lleyn from a Suffolk Mule.... She had a Suffolk head, no mistaking what she was

Her first and last lambings had singles. The 3 lambings in her prime were all twins. She never lost a lamb, I never had to lamb her. She was never in the shed or needed any extra work throughout the year.

She was one of the first ewes to lamb each year and her lambs were always the first to go.

If I could, I'd have 1000 of her in a heartbeat. Sadly I've no idea how she was bred... but I put money if I did have 1000 of them, none would be like her.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I once had a lleyn get in with some Suffolk mule ewe lambs. I kept the ewe lambs back out of them and they where excellent sheep.

 

[Nithsdale]

Aye, the Lleyn out the Blackie fleshes herself well, and has wool that doesn't attract so many of our wet summers' maggots. When she's put back to the Lleyn, a pair of fat lambs from her make a very good profit

Fast dogs and good fences are a must though

They handled the bad snows of lambing 2013 better than anything else. I have pictures somewhere but they'll be on the old laptop...


I've a soft spot for that cross of ewe - but it would mean working with Blackies, which I have no soft spot, just trauma

 

[Jonp]

I've a lleyn ram that I put on some of my Welsh mules. Get a slightly bigger maternal X with a tighter fleece, good mothers and produce chunky lambs when put to the Charollais tup. Behave, like all the other ewes I've got.