I breed my own mules, and swaledales but am thinking of crossing the swales all back to Cheviot, not sure on NCC or SCC and going down that route then prob crossing the gimmers back to aberfield, what would folks on here advise?Spot on.
We were not big enough to breed our own Blackies, or all our own Mules... we bred most of our mules but still bought in each year and were buying in all our Blackies.
It seemed backwards to me, and the rubbish mule wedder prices in 2004/2005 made my mind up we needed to change. I could've went for any breed at that point but dad liked the idea of the Lleyn so we tried them. The BFL tups were sold after that first lambing.
The farm has changed since then - cattle are all housed for winter being the biggest. We can run more ewes so probably could breed all our own mules now, but would still be buying in blackies each year. I prefer being almost a closed flock and I can take the ewes in any direction I want