- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Wait and see... I've seen bought tups 'come good' after their first winter acclimatising
But I don't fancy his chances
TexX ewes - which Tup to use?
- Thread starter Nithsdale
- Start date
Wait and see... I've seen bought tups 'come good' after their first winter acclimatising
But I don't fancy his chances
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
I think he needs to put his head back in a bag and get himself ready for the autumn sales, he doesn’t look like he’ll do another season without.
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Have you noticed two different types in the Beltex lambs?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Aye, that poorer tup throws finer (easier lambing) lambs which can be pretty bare skinned... He left the lamb which was a pet for a few days and got called Barry the (Bald barsteward) Beltex
Can't really tell much difference between lambs at moment (there a few I know definitely which tups they're from, so I'm keeping tabs), but will wait and see again when they're a bit older
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Them hard types can throw some cracking lambs or some pee poor soft ratsAye, that poorer tup throws finer (easier lambing) lambs which can be pretty bare skinned... He left the lamb which was a pet for a few days and got called Barry the (Bald barsteward) Beltex
Can't really tell much difference between lambs at moment (there a few I know definitely which tups they're from, so I'm keeping tabs), but will wait and see again when they're a bit older
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Nothing wrong with being a bald barsteward!Aye, that poorer tup throws finer (easier lambing) lambs which can be pretty bare skinned... He left the lamb which was a pet for a few days and got called Barry the (Bald barsteward) Beltex
Can't really tell much difference between lambs at moment (there a few I know definitely which tups they're from, so I'm keeping tabs), but will wait and see again when they're a bit older
MJT
Member
looks like one of those bad doer Beltex that will always be like that . Hunched back doesn’t help the way he looks, the other tups a cracker ! From my experience and trying to buy Beltex stock tups in the past the poor one won’t get any better if he’s like that now.
M-J-G
Member
No Suffolk rams any more?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
No, they'd had their run and needed replacing (age). I was also tupping some ewe hoggs, so decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and go for Beltex to save having too many tups as they could serve both groups
Part of me is missing the Suffolk lambs, but the Beltexes are mighty fine
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Fetched the sucking hoggs in this morning... lambs needed dosed and sprayed but decided to try shearing and see what they were like, first.
Very good going. 2 bellys were yellow and like wax, but everything else shore fine. There's a handful ewes which weren't great at end of lambing kept back are in this group. They're going cull once the lambs are off them... A few looked like they'd be hellish shearing but only 1 was bad - and even she was fine once I got into her. Given me more faith the rest of the ewes will be pretty much ready to crack on!
There was 1 Hogg had the starting of a strike - in clean wool, as she had been struck around the tail a fortnight ago and I had already trimmed her
Lambs wormed, multi vit dosed and all sprayed with Clik (had a bottle for doing the Suffolks very early last year, which went unused with it being so cold for so long).
I'm doing 90 for a neighbour on Friday, then moving up to do my dry hoggs and his other 160 which run beside, next week... It feels like it's came very quickly - but we are later than last (2!) year
Very good going. 2 bellys were yellow and like wax, but everything else shore fine. There's a handful ewes which weren't great at end of lambing kept back are in this group. They're going cull once the lambs are off them... A few looked like they'd be hellish shearing but only 1 was bad - and even she was fine once I got into her. Given me more faith the rest of the ewes will be pretty much ready to crack on!
There was 1 Hogg had the starting of a strike - in clean wool, as she had been struck around the tail a fortnight ago and I had already trimmed her
Lambs wormed, multi vit dosed and all sprayed with Clik (had a bottle for doing the Suffolks very early last year, which went unused with it being so cold for so long).
I'm doing 90 for a neighbour on Friday, then moving up to do my dry hoggs and his other 160 which run beside, next week... It feels like it's came very quickly - but we are later than last (2!) year
- Location
- East Ayrshire
I was in at Murray's at lunchtime and girl said they'd had loads of farmers in this morning for pour-on because of struck sheep - ewes and lambs.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The group of ewes with the Beltex lambs (which run down on the lowest ground) - I did all the ewes tails last week, but one of them was struck on Monday morning right on the edge of where I'd trimmed to
I would shear them, but I don't think they'll do yet - some do not look good at all. Starting to feel a bit caught between shearing them and spraying them... lambs aren't done yet either, but they're very clean so hopefully OK
They didn’t look like they sheared very well.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Was it you did the low fly over?!
Go faster stripes are all the rage don't ya know! (I get a bit tidier once I've done a day or 2 to get back into it)
I leave enough strips my self on ewes, they just looked sticky.Was it you did the low fly over?!
Go faster stripes are all the rage don't ya know! (I get a bit tidier once I've done a day or 2 to get back into it)
- Location
- Galloway
A lot tidier than mine just what I would expect from sucking hoggs
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
1 was a little sticky - she's been lame. 2 had bad bellies but other than that no not sticky at all...
My wool is always quite yellow - you can't really pink them like you can Mules
Lleyns never shear clean imo.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Nothing wrong with being a bald barsteward!
Just so you know what's probably coming your way
- Location
- East Ayrshire
