Romney ewe lambs
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- Location
- Devon
Brave
Not lambed pure Romney ewe lambs but plenty of Romney x's. Highlander will give you an easy lambing and potential for some good ewe lambs to keep.
Alternatively any easy lambing sire with some get up and go. Not sure if that includes texel! With some very careful selection possibly
- Location
- North Antrim
a narrow texel?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
A customer of mine sent me a picture earlier in the year, of some freshly weaned Charollais lambs out of Romney Hoggs, all born outside at 1000' and reared on forage only. There are some straight Romneys in the background for comparison. I'll let you make your own mind up.
- Location
- North Antrim
the charollais lambs pictured are surprisingly pure bred looking to be out of pure Romney dams, the char tup must really stamp his lambs.A customer of mine sent me a picture earlier in the year, of some freshly weaned Charollais lambs out of Romney Hoggs, all born outside at 1000' and reared on forage only. There are some straight Romneys in the background for comparison. I'll let you make your own mind up.
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- Location
- North Antrim
texel is the cross for Romney ewes Imo, but surely not on ewe lambs.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
They'd be by several different tups. Most of my Charollais x lambs out of Highlanders look similar at weaning, but then the Highlander has a bit less wool than a Romney.
Personally, I'd only ever consider using a Texel on a Romney to breed females to retain, but each to their own.
Right Romneys, right Texel, why not? I’ll admit it requires attention to detail in management terms, but anything worth having always does.
- Location
- North Antrim
but why take that risk lambing hogs, they have the rest of their careers to lamb to a good texel, surely a range of easy lambing sires would be more prudent as a first cross.
- Location
- East Sussex
The lambs need to be above comfortably above 40kg to be tupped and if you want an easy life outdoors then use a Southdown, they make excellent butchers lambs and you can wean them early which is all important.
This would be very important if you decide to use a texel. No big headed, wide shouldered, heavy boned ones. Beltex maybe?
Id go charollais or lleyn (only because i have spare lleyn rams though) if theyre big enough. Or charmoise thats what im trying on my lleyn ewe lambs this year give them the easiest lambing i can and hopefully a decent shaped lamb at the end of it.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
I tup my Romney ewe lambs to a primera , and no bother at all. As above , the right shaped Texel would be fine, and leave a good replacement. But if you want purely to fatten, you'd be hard pressed to better the type of lamb that Neilo's pictured above. Belters !
Lambed Romneys ewe lambs first time this year and sired by a charlaois too. Couldn't believe how stocky and pure bred the lambs looked
- Location
- Devon
It seems texel aren't the only rams that fit well with a romney
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The lambs will come quite fuzzy faced?
Does that not limit marketability in the live rings?
I've no problems selling direct, but I personally always like to keep all options open for selling.
- Location
- East Sussex
Modern Southdowns are more like their half brother the Charolais but a bit more durable. Some Charolais are almost as good as a Southdown and do make a good carcass however when the weather is cold and wet at lambing time the old Southdown has better survivability than the modern Charolais!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I wasn't disputing any of that. But they do have wooly faces/topknots don't they? Which is penalised in the live ring...
- Location
- East Sussex
The type of Southdowns we use do not have woolly heads, they look more like Charolais and providing they are going on clean headed Romneys will not have woolly faces.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Only if you don't own a set of jackoti's !