- Location
- South Pennines ol14
We used to be all cattle on our farm , only 50 Angus cross, wintered from nov to May they just couldn’t pay so we went all sheep.
Just reading various threads on sucklers etc and I can’t see how we could make them work, however we do have a 100 x 50’ shed plus a 90x30’ lean too, mrs L has a few Dunn Galloway cows and our old home reared whitbred shorthorn bull.
Question is .. if I lamb all the ewes outside, would there be any merit in rearing cows inside through the winter ?
min yellow peril form here’s the farm facts :-
175 acres plus moorland grazing for 100 ewes
Currently run 600 ewes , keep all replacements
Land wet and steep running from 1000’ to 1400’ Pennines ie we don’t grow fodder crops exept our pp
Mow around 35 acres !
Just reading various threads on sucklers etc and I can’t see how we could make them work, however we do have a 100 x 50’ shed plus a 90x30’ lean too, mrs L has a few Dunn Galloway cows and our old home reared whitbred shorthorn bull.
Question is .. if I lamb all the ewes outside, would there be any merit in rearing cows inside through the winter ?
min yellow peril form here’s the farm facts :-
175 acres plus moorland grazing for 100 ewes
Currently run 600 ewes , keep all replacements
Land wet and steep running from 1000’ to 1400’ Pennines ie we don’t grow fodder crops exept our pp
Mow around 35 acres !