TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

irish dom

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Shouldn't joke... this was the problem with the 1 and only Beltex I've ever had. I bought the biggest one I could find and he couldn't reach my pure Texel ewes
Had similar bother with a very expensive one. Have rouge x beltex rams now on lleyn X ewe lambs. Lovely wee stores in July when lads have grass fever. Mate of mine tips big tall mule ewes with wee butty beltexes. Always joke that they won't have reached at scanning time but it's amazing what can be achieved!
 

Ysgythan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Ammanford
Shouldn't joke... this was the problem with the 1 and only Beltex I've ever had. I bought the biggest one I could find and he couldn't reach my pure Texel ewes
Had similar bother with a very expensive one. Have rouge x beltex rams now on lleyn X ewe lambs. Lovely wee stores in July when lads have grass fever. Mate of mine tips big tall mule ewes with wee butty beltexes. Always joke that they won't have reached at scanning time but it's amazing what can be achieved!

As we say in Wales, where there’s a Will, there’s a Dai.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
What’s the two plates next to the backing gate.

Going to be Fluke dosing and bolusing ewes next 2 days through the Gripper, so I've set up the anti backing gate to try it out. Here's some pictures of the 2 plates to show how it goes together. Hopefully it makes a bit more sense than me describing
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johnspeehs

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Location
Co Antrim
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Not sure if I'm being smart or just asking for trouble

I'm thinking my ewe lambs are looking very well. A good % will be big enough to tup, the rest wouldn't be too far away... seriously considering feeding them on over the next 6-8 weeks and then turning tups in with them

Quite fancy using Beltex. Being up next door, they'd need to manage without too much work from me. So the tiny lambs at birth really appeal. They should turn out to be very smart and I'd punt them away store as soon as I could. Don't want to be sore on the hoggs, but if I can get another modest 100 lambs (theres 140 ewe lambs) it would always help cover the wintering costs...
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Have I lost the plot :X3:

Smart batch of lambs @ Nithsdale Farmer think you would be missing a trick not to run a ram with them.
 

Boydvalley

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Location
Bath
Going to be Fluke dosing and bolusing ewes next 2 days through the Gripper, so I've set up the anti backing gate to try it out. Here's some pictures of the 2 plates to show how it goes together. Hopefully it makes a bit more sense than me describing
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That makes sense. The advantage is you can still drop a stop gate in on the back of the trailer. I was cussing that today with my backing gate while working on a few in the pen.
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Do the ewes push through the anti backing gates ok? They look good , time for a video please! (y)
As to how many tups, as many as your cheque book will afford!

I've no idea how it will work. It was delivered on Friday and tomorrow will be my first use. I've a 33" spreader before it, but think I might need to swap that out for an 18" spreader. But I will see how it goes first
 

Bob the beef

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Scot Borders
Bit of a left field tup option would be a small shouldered NCCheviot. Have tupped my hoggs with one of these for years, lambs fall out and get going. You get a nice smart tight skinned white face lamb. Easily sold store or spane the Hogg early (90-100 days), and you will get them away fat by October no worries.

So get away to Lockerbie on Wednesday and pick up a couple of lower end tups for 300-400
 

Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
Are you going to tup them earlier to foster ones that won’t take onto ewes 🙈 Sod’s law they’ll be at the end when you don’t want them

I tried that. Gave them only one cycle, and accepted plenty would be empty, but wanted to make sure none would have twins to feed. They lambed at the start, right alongside all my triplets and it was about ten days before I had any singles:banghead:
 

AftonShepherd

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Ayrshire
Bit of a left field tup option would be a small shouldered NCCheviot. Have tupped my hoggs with one of these for years, lambs fall out and get going. You get a nice smart tight skinned white face lamb. Easily sold store or spane the Hogg early (90-100 days), and you will get them away fat by October no worries.

So get away to Lockerbie on Wednesday and pick up a couple of lower end tups for 300-400
@Nithsdale Farmer already has plenty of home bred Lleyn and Lleyn x NCC tup lambs he could use. He won't be spending money at Lockerbie 🤣
 

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