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Maternal tup for Texels
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<blockquote data-quote="Ysgythan" data-source="post: 6925151" data-attributes="member: 8724"><p>I went on a farm walk some years ago now with a Texel breeder who kept crossing his commercial flock with a Texel and occasionally a maternal. He had tried many recognised maternal breeds, but reckoned the best thing he had tried was a Chamoise. Although I have to say they’re not the sheep for me. Buggy eyed pink little aliens.</p><p></p><p>In my own experience I haven’t deliberately put a maternal across Texel x ewes, but can say from a few examples when they’ve been caught by various errants, you can literally put anything on them and get good results.</p><p></p><p>We bred up from mules and found it doesn’t matter as much how many crosses of Texel there is in them, selecting the muley types pays off. We found this by accident as the breedier Texel crosses sold better as gimmers. We thought we were keeping the poorer ones for ourselves. This also applied to the tups. They were the retired stock tups from the pedigrees and harder to sell home breds, mainly triplet born.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ysgythan, post: 6925151, member: 8724"] I went on a farm walk some years ago now with a Texel breeder who kept crossing his commercial flock with a Texel and occasionally a maternal. He had tried many recognised maternal breeds, but reckoned the best thing he had tried was a Chamoise. Although I have to say they’re not the sheep for me. Buggy eyed pink little aliens. In my own experience I haven’t deliberately put a maternal across Texel x ewes, but can say from a few examples when they’ve been caught by various errants, you can literally put anything on them and get good results. We bred up from mules and found it doesn’t matter as much how many crosses of Texel there is in them, selecting the muley types pays off. We found this by accident as the breedier Texel crosses sold better as gimmers. We thought we were keeping the poorer ones for ourselves. This also applied to the tups. They were the retired stock tups from the pedigrees and harder to sell home breds, mainly triplet born. [/QUOTE]
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