Mules are still supreme

[Ysgythan]

My sentiments exactly, just run a few to breed replacements but would be cheaper just to buy my replacements. Not sure where all this confidence is coming from when you look at the political atmosphere currently

bounce back loans

 

[Ysgythan]

You forgot profit.

so did they

 

[M-J-G]

You’ve forgot about the sponge fairy liguid tweezers hair spray scissors ect

I don't know where you've been involved with that they have time to do that, but I've done a reasonable bit of work in the past for a fairly successful mule breeder and there was none of that nonsense.

Belly clip, head and neck clipped with a finer comb and through the dipper twice a couple of days apart.

Which mule breeders are spending 50 min per sheep?

 

[Ysgythan]

Culled a 5 year old mule today, £89, same price I paid for her as an ewe lamb. Would have made more but was a little portly due to a withdrawal period needing to be seen out, despite being on sod all grass for a month. Done a fine job in the interim. I am certainly not going grumble at that.

 

[Ysgythan]

I don't know where you've been involved with that but I've done a reasonable bit of work in the past for a fairly successful mule breeder and there was none of that nonsense.

Belly clip, head and neck clipped with a finer comb and through the dipper twice a couple of days apart.

Which mule breeders are does being 50 min per sheep?

One of the RSPCA, Police or NHS are going to be interested in that answer...

 

[Nithsdale]

You’ve forgot about the sponge fairy liguid tweezers hair spray scissors ect

I reckon you've spoke to a Mule breeder... who also turns out BFLs, or Swale/Blackie tups


BFLs can take a whure of a time to dress

 

[M-J-G]

I reckon you've spoke to a Mule breeder... who also turns out BFLs, or Swale/Blackie tups


BFLs can take a whure of a time to dress

I'd guess it's someone with some kind of condition that there's an abbreviation for.

 

[bobajob]

Anybody at Longtown today, north of England mule ewe lambs didn’t look to be a an a absolute trade the videos I watched for a wee while.
Lots going through about £85-£90?

Cheviot mules certainly looked to be making more.. ( I know they usually do)

 

[muleman]

Part of the report from the recent Kirkby Stephen sale of 10,580 Mule Gimmer (ewe) Lambs.


''After a couple of years of some sheep producers looking to alternative breeds of sheep, the North of England Mule Gimmer lamb bounces back to prove herself as possibly the most resilient longstanding and prolific breeding sheep in the UK and this resulted in an abundance of sheep producers from Aberdeen in the north to Cornwall in the South being present keen to secure Mule Gimmer Lambs.

Aside from top pens the strongest well bred tupping lambs met fantastic competition from start to finish with plenty of these selling from between £125-£150 regardless of the size of pens.''

Youve cut the best two bits off that report

 

[muleman]

One of the most prominent Scotch Mule breeders in this area who has always sold 400 first draw lambs at the Nithsdale Trophy Scotch Mule Ewe Lamb Sale (Thornhill, now Dumfries) - and more often than not won the trophy and top priced pen - packed the job in about 4 years ago. Sells the whole lot privately off the farm. No dressing, no colouring, no drama or hassles... Best thing he ever did he says.


We stopped selling ewe lambs as soon as the face and neck trimming crept into it

@Nithsdale Farmer always criticising mules and hes got a trophy named after him

 

[Nithsdale]

@Nithsdale Farmer always criticising mules and hes got a trophy named after him

I speak with the insight of experience

I've been known to be able to pick a bonny heid

 

[muleman]

Just come across this thread....thanks everyone, its been a great laugh!

 

[yorkshire8]

Anybody at Longtown today, north of England mule ewe lambs didn’t look to be a an a absolute trade the videos I watched for a wee while.
Lots going through about £85-£90?

Cheviot mules certainly looked to be making more.. ( I know they usually do)

I was there! The mules were cheap you could get good tupping lambs for less than £100 .
I got some more chev mules bought ave £103 .

 

[dogandstick]

I was there! The mules were cheap you could get good tupping lambs for less than £100 .
I got some more chev mules bought ave £103 .

That’s sheep trade for you. If they’re dear at the start of the season, they’ll get cheaper and vice versa.

 

[dogandstick]

Surely not?

There's farms sell 300 mule ewe lambs in 1 go. All dressed... x50 is 15,000minutes which is 250 hours which is 10.4 days of non stop continuous dressing.

Square the tail, belly clip and give clean lines, then the neck and face... 10mins, max

What I don’t get is that the buyers can’t see through the trimmed out necks, bloom and mega feeding. Can’t blame the breeders for supplying them though.

 

[Purli R]

Youve cut the best two bits off that report

That"ll be the bit where you can claim bragging rights then? Well done to yourselves,credit to you.

 

[egbert]

Do you think it’s the crossing type leicters to blame or narrow Swales?

it's cos the tail wags the dog.....

 

[egbert]

Maybe it’s time for some blackie back through the swale.

the preferred local type down here has a fair admixture of swale in it, although it's mostly stabilised long since, with several flocks sticking to tups from within the local pool.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I was there! The mules were cheap you could get good tupping lambs for less than £100 .
I got some more chev mules bought ave £103 .

Oh for the love of GOD!! That's really ruined my day altogether now!!!

 

[@dlm]

Think a lot is areas, many marts from kirkby to bentham to longtown see a proper price for flash fat lambs. Down in south not so much, people in banbury with good numbers in spring take their lambs to these marts. Smaller farmer drawing 30/40 a week doesnt look elsewhere than dead or local mart, gaining 8 quid a lamb on dead, but not everyone, the lambs bred from those ewes will be less on the ground, no doubt lower scanning% than mules and harder lambing. Ive run all breeds. Could and do lamb 800 mule ewe lambs on my own, 550 suff cheviots or 550 cheviot mules i couldnt. Use a char on mules generally, have tried charmoise last year and work great for my job. But had 2 beltex x char surplus so used on mule gimmer lambs, much to my surprise, but as pointed out earlier the sire can gain you confirmation. Well to my surprise that whilst most sold as stores had 60 of 80 lambs out of mule ewe lambs sold fat grade e, that would have been by these tups. Many mules are too narrow, but look at 10000 sheep thoroughly, many arent, would say look at the broad heads and rest of body follows but i remembered thats backward talk and a thing of past so best shut up as im out of date!!!