TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

[Guiggs]

There may be one or two have found their way into that batch


Purely by accident, of course... as the buggers went through a gate I had somehow left open

By using my contacts between society's I feel a joint PR opportunity to convince you all of the joint Lleyn-Suffolk benefits!! Courtesy of Skoda from the other Forum, whom some of you will know/remember, via the Lleyn Society website:

Some of the best Suffolk lambs iv ever seen.

I've seen those pics on the society website a few times and as impressed as I am I'd like to see the tup that sired them and know how easily they lambed, and if they were easily lambed then how much of that was due to the maternal influence...
Also I'm not sure how in vogue the coloured faced lamb is or will be in the future..
I think a white faced lamb is a safer bet when selling live around here at least!

 

[Nithsdale]

I've seen those pics on the society website a few times and as impressed as I am I'd like to see the tup that sired them and know how easily they lambed, and if they were easily lambed then how much of that was due to the maternal influence...
Also I'm not sure how in vogue the coloured faced lamb is or will be in the future..
I think a white faced lamb is a safer bet when selling live around here at least!

Skoda breeds the tups himself - Lleyns and Suffolk's. From what I remember (on the old forum) he is very much in the progressive/easy lamber category - breeding for functionality.

It's a shame he never joined this forum - he would happily answer all you want to know, himself.


As for face colouring... "Quality always sells" as they say.
Clean heads, very good skins, smart lambs with shape - there is no reason why those lambs in the pictures I posted should struggle to sell in any live ring. It would be a disgrace, and an insult to our industry, if buyers were to turn their noses up at them because of the colour on their face.

 

[Guiggs]

I agree on the quality of the lambs .
I was being a bit tongue in cheek although everybody knows it's how pretty a sheep's head is that determines the quality of its meat/ genetics and ultimately it's price

 

[Bones]

Throw a good big cheviot ram in with them,lamb out side ,good get up and go ,great replacement ewe lambs, as hard as nail's, easy on the Shepard,.

 

[jamesy]

Skoda breeds the tups himself - Lleyns and Suffolk's. From what I remember (on the old forum) he is very much in the progressive/easy lamber category - breeding for functionality.

It's a shame he never joined this forum - he would happily answer all you want to know, himself.


As for face colouring... "Quality always sells" as they say.
Clean heads, very good skins, smart lambs with shape - there is no reason why those lambs in the pictures I posted should struggle to sell in any live ring. It would be a disgrace, and an insult to our industry, if buyers were to turn their noses up at them because of the colour on their face.

That's me caught up now!

 

[Ysgythan]

I agree on the quality of the lambs .
I was being a bit tongue in cheek although everybody knows it's how pretty a sheep's head is that determines the quality of its meat/ genetics and ultimately it's price

I can't work out if you're being sarcastic...

 

[Nithsdale]

That's me caught up now!

Jings! Youl need a sleep after reading all that!

That's a whole evening, your never getting back

 

[jamesy]

Gone!.... I must admit to skim reading some of it!

 

[neilo]

Skoda breeds the tups himself - Lleyns and Suffolk's. From what I remember (on the old forum) he is very much in the progressive/easy lamber category - breeding for functionality.

It's a shame he never joined this forum - he would happily answer all you want to know, himself.


As for face colouring... "Quality always sells" as they say.
Clean heads, very good skins, smart lambs with shape - there is no reason why those lambs in the pictures I posted should struggle to sell in any live ring. It would be a disgrace, and an insult to our industry, if buyers were to turn their noses up at them because of the colour on their face.

+1
I seem to remember Hugh was very vocal about breeding Lleyns as they should be too, rather than the Texel crosses that are popular in the sale ring.

 

[Nithsdale]

Not much of an update but thought I'd post anyway...

Fetched the Tex X ewes in today, put my hand on them and pulled the tups off. Crayon seems to have faded alot. One or two of the gimmers are very fat - hopefully they are in lamb...

Tups have held their condition well - better than expected. I'm pleased.

 

[glensman]

Fetched the Tex X ewes in today, put my hand on them and pulled the tups off

Each to their own

 

[Nithsdale]

Each to their own

The ewes haven't been in since September, wanted to see their fettle... Plus, I will probably kick them onto the hill for a couple weeks before end of year. I'm hard on my sheep - but I'm not putting Suffolk's onto bracken.

Also, pull them off I don't need to feed them... if they stay with the ewes they would get fed needlessly pre lambing.

 

[polk_farmer]

Each to their own

GIGGIDY!

 

[glensman]

You missed the innuendo

 

[Nithsdale]

You missed the innuendo

I'm quite tired... but I see it now

 

[glensman]

Good, I thought I offended you by accident.

 

[NZDan]

Each to their own

The difference between Helping my uncle jack of a horse, and Helping my Uncle Jack, off a horse.

 

[Ysgythan]

put my hand on them and pulled the tups off

Jesus wept

 

[Nithsdale]

There's nowt grammatically wrong with that sentence, you lot just have dirty minds!


And I thought it was me who's mind was in the gutter...

 

[Ysgythan]

Yes, but you just know this one is going into TFF folklore. "Remember when @Nithsdale Farmer pulled off his tups..."