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<blockquote data-quote="egbert" data-source="post: 7803724" data-attributes="member: 9965"><p>300 is a grown up bunch of sheep, so borrowing a lamb/oldie off a mate is hardly you.</p><p>(and your business should warrant some attention to detail.)</p><p></p><p>Commercial suggests non-pedigree/purebred, clay with moss sounds wet?</p><p>Are you buying in ewes or keeping your own replacements?</p><p></p><p>If you're just shopping for rams as you need them, to sire fat/store lambs, then breed is secondary to shape/growth/ease of management.</p><p>Sounds like you're in't north/over the border, where seemingly the presumption is that a ram fit for purpose should cost many hundreds if not thousands.</p><p>This is evident hooey, as unless you're determined to go for genetic improvement, you would be far better off buying one or two that exactly fit your bill, keep some ewes of suitable stature, and keeping entire sons thereof.</p><p>They'll cost you a fat lamb price each, will almost certainly perform as well as something raised and fed by a 'ram breeder', and will quite possibly recoup that when you've used them.</p><p>We would (almost) all be better off like that if the truth were known! </p><p>(says a man whose boy slipped off to a tup sale this morning with the brief that 'we've probably got enough, but you can spend £200-300 if you fancy summat')</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="egbert, post: 7803724, member: 9965"] 300 is a grown up bunch of sheep, so borrowing a lamb/oldie off a mate is hardly you. (and your business should warrant some attention to detail.) Commercial suggests non-pedigree/purebred, clay with moss sounds wet? Are you buying in ewes or keeping your own replacements? If you're just shopping for rams as you need them, to sire fat/store lambs, then breed is secondary to shape/growth/ease of management. Sounds like you're in't north/over the border, where seemingly the presumption is that a ram fit for purpose should cost many hundreds if not thousands. This is evident hooey, as unless you're determined to go for genetic improvement, you would be far better off buying one or two that exactly fit your bill, keep some ewes of suitable stature, and keeping entire sons thereof. They'll cost you a fat lamb price each, will almost certainly perform as well as something raised and fed by a 'ram breeder', and will quite possibly recoup that when you've used them. We would (almost) all be better off like that if the truth were known! (says a man whose boy slipped off to a tup sale this morning with the brief that 'we've probably got enough, but you can spend £200-300 if you fancy summat') [/QUOTE]
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