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<blockquote data-quote="hendrebc" data-source="post: 4187770" data-attributes="member: 70166"><p>Ar the time everything was pretty slow because my llleyns werent the best (much improved now thankfully) the suffolk cross lambs were usually slower than the pure lleyns and the texel cross lambs out of the suffolk ewes. I put that down to the suffolk rams we were buying though. They were usually the overfed showy types that dont function well on grass so the lambs were the same not being great in grass. Until the creep feeders went out after combining then the suffolk cross lambs were doing better than anything else. Odd really it might have been because they were the quietesr ones that didnt run away when they saw feeders being filled i dont know really why they reacted so well to bagged feed and not grass you would think good feed is good feed <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /> </p><p>If you could find suffolks that respond well to grass then they would do great as a terminal sire i would expect. Good lleyns would have been a good start too it didnt help then mine were quite small and slow growing back then. The suffolk was used to give my lleyn ewes some size to put texel rams on and then those lambs would grow and fatten really well from big suff cross ewes. I just breed better lleyns now and skip the suffollk part altogether.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hendrebc, post: 4187770, member: 70166"] Ar the time everything was pretty slow because my llleyns werent the best (much improved now thankfully) the suffolk cross lambs were usually slower than the pure lleyns and the texel cross lambs out of the suffolk ewes. I put that down to the suffolk rams we were buying though. They were usually the overfed showy types that dont function well on grass so the lambs were the same not being great in grass. Until the creep feeders went out after combining then the suffolk cross lambs were doing better than anything else. Odd really it might have been because they were the quietesr ones that didnt run away when they saw feeders being filled i dont know really why they reacted so well to bagged feed and not grass you would think good feed is good feed :scratchhead: If you could find suffolks that respond well to grass then they would do great as a terminal sire i would expect. Good lleyns would have been a good start too it didnt help then mine were quite small and slow growing back then. The suffolk was used to give my lleyn ewes some size to put texel rams on and then those lambs would grow and fatten really well from big suff cross ewes. I just breed better lleyns now and skip the suffollk part altogether. [/QUOTE]
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