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- Cheshire
You obviously haven’t seen my dogs…Yes and stood with them with the dog at his feet and holding granddads best sheep horn walking stick/crook!!
Rouge or Charollais
- Thread starter Oneman37
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- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- Cheshire
None of the Cheviot mules came with rosettes! Couldn’t afford them ones!You’d have thought he’d have them wearing their rosettes for the photo shoot though…
tune in tomorrow for the beltex tups going in with the Scotch mules!
Rouge for shapes, charollais for weight, but just slightly heavier
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
I bet you get some good lambs with those tups on those gimmer lambs
I did mean youMe or @Electricfencer ?
Have you kept any gimmers for breeding? (Cheviot/mule x Rouge just to be clear
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That’s a shame I thought I had a customer for some small hoggs with crappy lambs on them.I did mean you
Have you kept any gimmers for breeding? (Cheviot/mule x Rouge just to be clear
- Location
- Cheshire
I did mean you
Have you kept any gimmers for breeding? (Cheviot/mule x Rouge just to be clear
No I haven’t kept any rouge crosses back yet. I’m very tempted too. They make quite a nice stretchy Hogg.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
No I haven’t kept any rouge crosses back yet. I’m very tempted too. They make quite a nice stretchy Hogg.
I did, back in the day, as well as my Dad buying quite a few hundred. I wouldn’t recommend it!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Are the Charollais in NI that bad for shape?
Of course there’s more variation within breeds than between them, and all breeds change over time, but when they came in the Rouges would have been bigger framed sheep than Charollais, with a lot poorer fleshing through the loin and hindquarter, along with terrible open fleeces and thin skins.
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- Cheshire
They absolutely ruined the Rouge in the 90’s. Bad breeding decisions all around!Are the Charollais in NI that bad for shape?
Of course there’s more variation within breeds than between them, and all breeds change over time, but when they came in the Rouges would have been bigger framed sheep than Charollais, with a lot poorer fleshing through the loin and hindquarter, along with terrible open fleeces and thin skins.
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- Montgomeryshire
Ours would have been from the early 90’s. The ones I’ve seen since had been ‘improved’, mostly with the addition of Charollais blood to add fleshing and tighten the fleeces. Both wouldn’t help on maternal traits ime.
The original Rouges wouldn’t even have had as much hair of their heads as those in your photos. They were balder than even the baldest Charollais.
Meanwhile, a lot of the ‘modern’ Charollais are heading towards later maturing sheep with bigger frames with less natural fleshing.
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- central scotland
The Charollais in Ireland seemed to sell pretty well on Saturday not sure what shape they wereAre the Charollais in NI that bad for shape?
Of course there’s more variation within breeds than between them, and all breeds change over time, but when they came in the Rouges would have been bigger framed sheep than Charollais, with a lot poorer fleshing through the loin and hindquarter, along with terrible open fleeces and thin skins.