New poll Dorset tup

[Jerry]

Not sure he’s leggy enough??

 

[bluepower]

Not sure he’s leggy enough??

WTF is he crossed with the oddball in the next pen?

 

[primmiemoo]

Handlers got smaller out your way?

 

[Jerry]

Handlers got smaller out your way?

Hobbit.....

 

[Jerry]

I’ve found @Nithsdale Farmer new Suffolk tup as well.

 

[Nithsdale]

I’ve found @Nithsdale Farmer new Suffolk tup as well.

They've bred the perfect back line there

 

[spin cycle]

Not sure he’s leggy enough??

which one is the llama again

 

[spin cycle]

my ideal poll dorset ..

 

[yellowbelly]

my ideal poll dorset ..

Is there a leg like that at each corner of a Dorset

 

[spin cycle]

Is there a leg like that at each corner of a Dorset

imagine a sheep with a 'leg' at each corner

 

[Muddyroads]

imagine a sheep with a 'leg' at each corner

You’d have to catch it first!

 

[spin cycle]

You’d have to catch it first!

TBF dorsets are easy to catch.....the sound of roller doors on my grain store being opened brings my dorset crosses home from 3 fields away

 

[johnb5555]

my ideal poll dorset ..

Very white fleshed........

 

[CopperBeech]

I once asked an American to explain why nearly all of their sheep look like that, they couldn’t explain really but just said “everything is bigger in America”

 

[dogjon]

American Dorlumbia I'm guessing? Though the breeders like to call them "Modern Dorsets". Love to see them run the dna. You can still find real polled Dorsets but you may have to look for them, sometimes referred to as "short eared Dorsets". Most of the commercial Dorset flocks I know of in this area have gone to Horned Dorsets.

 

[Henarar]

Burt hasn't got very long legs, he does have four though which is good

 

[Jerry]

imagine a sheep with a 'leg' at each corner

I kid you not, lamb customer last year complained his half lamb did not come with two legs and two shoulders. I had to explain sheep anatomy to him....

 

[primmiemoo]

We did have a Polled Dorset ram that was at least 18 stone. The scales only weighed to 18 stone...
He was a proper sheep, though.

 

[delilah]

Nah, you need to get some horns bred on to them to be proper sheep.

 

[andybk]

Those new world suffolks are huge , average carcase at best , huge appetite , were imported here 40 years ago , didnt last long though most were gone in 5 years , bit like the vallis will be