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Sheep breed change for outdoor lambing
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<blockquote data-quote="CopperBeech" data-source="post: 7430573" data-attributes="member: 8925"><p>You’ve farmed and finished many Romney’s ?</p><p></p><p>I used to lamb a couple thousand Mules outside along with Suffolk and tex Xs-the right ones are grand and you get good lambs etc but you just can’t improve bugger all - you pay your money and take your chances. And your costs can end a lot lot higher.</p><p></p><p>I keep shedders and will hVe averaged in excess of £100 a lamb over about 1200 ewes lambed, so you can’t really convince me that I need mules to breed decent lambs. And I know for a fact they’ve cost me a lot less to farm and fatten than mules and mule bred lambs.</p><p></p><p>Most lambs had one drench, some none, nothing’s ever seen any feed, no real other inputs. 1/3 of whether lambs went on the hook over 40kg at weaning. And I sold over 150% off them. Lambing took me and a young lad doing the shed.</p><p></p><p>I don’t miss the mules <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CopperBeech, post: 7430573, member: 8925"] You’ve farmed and finished many Romney’s ? I used to lamb a couple thousand Mules outside along with Suffolk and tex Xs-the right ones are grand and you get good lambs etc but you just can’t improve bugger all - you pay your money and take your chances. And your costs can end a lot lot higher. I keep shedders and will hVe averaged in excess of £100 a lamb over about 1200 ewes lambed, so you can’t really convince me that I need mules to breed decent lambs. And I know for a fact they’ve cost me a lot less to farm and fatten than mules and mule bred lambs. Most lambs had one drench, some none, nothing’s ever seen any feed, no real other inputs. 1/3 of whether lambs went on the hook over 40kg at weaning. And I sold over 150% off them. Lambing took me and a young lad doing the shed. I don’t miss the mules 😂 [/QUOTE]
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