Sheep buying help

[JMTHORNLEY]

I don’t have nor have to much interest in sheep but the Mrs would really like some. Help please with some suggestions.

We’ve narrowed down to the following

Kerryhills as I like the look of them. No idea on how they are to keep
Dorset’s as one of my best pals is big into them

We are about 700ft up, fair to middling ground. Good shelter and grazing ewes do well. Open to other suggestions that would keep easy and set her on her way. Want something that has some value outside a meat ring as she’d like to show and have something she can put her time and effort into and make them her own

Thoughts please

 

[spin cycle]

not a fan of dorsets but if your pal is into them that might be way to go.....milky .prolific and flexible breeding season

 

[yellowbelly]

Like, @spin cycle says, if you've got a mate with them you've got a source of sheep and advice to keep you on the right track.

 

[Man_in_black]

I don’t have nor have to much interest in sheep but the Mrs would really like some. Help please with some suggestions.

Divorce??

 

[Gator]

 

[TexelBen]

If you get some Kerry hills, let me know.
I love taking the pee ????

 

[pgk]

Kerry hills, very attractive mad as f**I. Take the easy way and get some woolshedders.

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Kerry hills, very attractive mad as f**I. Take the easy way and get some woolshedders.

Described an ex girlfriend

 

[Moors Lad]

mad as f**I.

Yep, I know of a "lady" who liked the look of `em ...... didn`t keep them long though!
And yep, probably best to let her go even if she was a looker....

 

[Agrivator]

Have a look at Beulah Speckled Faces. They are a respected breed, but someone more familiar with them will be able to tell you how manageable they are. The attitude of the tups would also be an important factor.

 

[David.]

Try some Oxfords....

 

[woodfield]

Zwartbles might suit her - they are big, docile, easy to handle ewes that lamb easily and are nice to show.

 

[Gator]

If ya need some exercise get some chevis ? ? ?

 

[Agrivator]

If ya need some exercise get some chevis ? ? ?

Or if you want to win the Puisance? (high jump) at the Horse-of-the-Year Show, get some Lleyns - the original Lleyns, not the 3/4 Texels that are sometimes passed off as Lleyns.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

Yeah I’ll be honest now, still not sold on the idea and she won’t stop badgering ?

Going to put the idea off till back end, then say we’ve grass that’d be better of in weanlings belly’s, let’s wait till spring then tell her prices will be better back end so let’s just hang on, and so on and so on and so on until she disappears with the cattle trailer comes home with whatever the f**k she wants. I think the corona rubbish has gone to her bed, she said the word goat to me last night....

 

[Mc115reed]

Have a look at Beulah Speckled Faces. They are a respected breed, but someone more familiar with them will be able to tell you how manageable they are. The attitude of the tups would also be an important factor.

Ill sell the man 20 mine are ducking useless ??‍ the 20 would of been scanned too 250% and lucky if they’ve a lamb each ...

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Yeah I’ll be honest now, still not sold on the idea and she won’t stop badgering [emoji23]

Going to put the idea off till back end, then say we’ve grass that’d be better of in weanlings belly’s, let’s wait till spring then tell her prices will be better back end so let’s just hang on, and so on and so on and so on until she disappears with the cattle trailer comes home with whatever the fudge she wants. I think the corona rubbish has gone to her bed, she said the word goat to me last night....

Goat! Now she is just getting offensive!

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Ill sell the man 20 mine are ducking useless ??‍ the 20 would of been scanned too 250% and lucky if they’ve a lamb each ...

My Beulahs were good mothers but always favoured one lamb. I never really trusted them with twins and admittedly most had singles. I lambed mine at 140% but they weren’t the big type. Mine were the smaller less-favoured Eppynt type.

Really strong ewes though and thrifty. I just think they need poor ground so they can have a single lamb and do that job well on a low cost system.

 

[Mc115reed]

My Beulahs were good mothers but always favoured one lamb. I never really trusted them with twins and admittedly most had singles. I lambed mine at 140% but they weren’t the big type. Mine were the smaller less-favoured Eppynt type.

Really strong ewes though and thrifty. I just think they need poor ground so they can have a single lamb and do that job well on a low cost system.

I had quite a few of them with triplets... always leave triplets on for 24hrs then lift the runt... be lucky if 2 of them lasted a couple hours with some of them before they lay on them or 1 threw a lamb out the pen 5 seconds after I put her in it... what can you do? I don’t want to get in the business of taking a lamb off even a twin and feeding big litres of colostrum either ... cull pen for most of them i think this time...