- Location
- North Antrim
I just realized your farming in orkney, my conditions are poor but not orkney, you probably did well getting them out when you did.
TexX ewes - which Tup to use?
- Thread starter Nithsdale
- Start date
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
No worry. It's all part of the push for the Suffolk revolution, comrade, so it's all good
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Just shifted the TexX ewes - trying to keep them on the fresh/best grass, still waiting on the transfer for this land this cold weather grass is going backwards we are calving now, too, so im short on fields as we have turned cows which have calves out weather needs to improve, quick!
Last move was just through a gate, no worries.
This time gather fields, take along the road (with a very low dyke on one side) past 3 other gates, through a shelter belt and into new fields...
Aye, i forgot how much i hate shifting lambs so young!! And in fairness they behaved, mostly!! It still raised stress levels a wee bit. Thankfully the dog did his job and kept them right.
this cold weather grass is going backwards we are calving now, too, so im short on fields as we have turned cows which have calves out weather needs to improve, quick!Last move was just through a gate, no worries.
This time gather fields, take along the road (with a very low dyke on one side) past 3 other gates, through a shelter belt and into new fields...
Aye, i forgot how much i hate shifting lambs so young!! And in fairness they behaved, mostly!! It still raised stress levels a wee bit. Thankfully the dog did his job and kept them right.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
We moved ours across 2 fields and into a pen, it was utter carnage [emoji24] there were only about 30 of them, took 4 people and 2 dogs about an hour. Taking them over gaps in walls, and doubling back. Never again. They're going in the trailer next time!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Texel lambs on the Lleyn ewes. Running on the highest inbye ground we have - very old PP (3 fields they are on have been reseeded once in my lifetime, when i was very young)
Is there a bit of blue texel, throw back going on there
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The 'blue' gene is a natural recessive gene in the Texel anyway... The tups used are just normal UK white Texels but i cant comment on their ancestry. I think i have 5 'blue' lambs this year, had over 10 last year - including this pair of pure black lambs:
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Been waiting... and waiting on this girl lambing.
Lleyn X NCC ewe, with a 3/4 Lleyn lamb. The only ewe of this breeding i have.
Bit of a story behind the ewe. She was born late July, 2014. Her mother (a gimmer) got caught by a visiting Park type NCC tup long after my own tips had finished. IIRC she had lambed as a Hogg, so i put her on the hill to get another chance, thinking she was empty.
The biggest surprise is, i ran her and the ChevX lamb with the ewe Hogg's after weaning. I ran a tup with the Hogg's... the ewe only went and lambed again in mid March whilst still rearing the girl pictured!!
The girl above had a pair last year, as a gimmer, 1 boy and 1 girl. The lamb today is a girl, so she will be kept just glad she finally lambed!!
Lleyn X NCC ewe, with a 3/4 Lleyn lamb. The only ewe of this breeding i have.
Bit of a story behind the ewe. She was born late July, 2014. Her mother (a gimmer) got caught by a visiting Park type NCC tup long after my own tips had finished. IIRC she had lambed as a Hogg, so i put her on the hill to get another chance, thinking she was empty.
The biggest surprise is, i ran her and the ChevX lamb with the ewe Hogg's after weaning. I ran a tup with the Hogg's... the ewe only went and lambed again in mid March whilst still rearing the girl pictured!!
The girl above had a pair last year, as a gimmer, 1 boy and 1 girl. The lamb today is a girl, so she will be kept
just glad she finally lambed!!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
@Ysgythan
Not a great pic but thought I'd better give you a tease of the pures
Ewe left, Tup right
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Texel gimmers come into their own when nursing.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The singles were gathered next to the gate through onto the hill field last night, so i slipped them through. Shut the hill twins into 1 field this morning, fetched the singles into the steading at grass parks and sprayed the lambs with Zermasect (Dysect) so that's them covered against ticks for when the spring rise comes next month. Really pleased with how these are doing
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
This cheeky dude managed to go unnoticed at lambing, and never got a rubber band.
Stood and watched him for a minute or 2 then decided to leave him entire... if he turns out any decent i will keep him as a tup.
Stood and watched him for a minute or 2 then decided to leave him entire... if he turns out any decent i will keep him as a tup.
Guiggs
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Do you sell any pure lleyn live?
How do you find they compare to the texel cross lleyn price wise?
How do you find they compare to the texel cross lleyn price wise?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Wee bit slower to finish then the crosses, but not much. I put it down to coming off the poorest ground.
No price difference.
After weaning, if i sell a pen of lambs - it will be a mix of both Lleyn and TexX lambs, and they all sell the same.
Guiggs
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Hmmm
I was looking at some of my pure lleyn lambs, admittedly they are singles but their conformation is pretty good and nice tight skins, it got me thinking that it might be much simpler to breed them all pure and not bother putting a texel over any of them but I will probably sell them all as stores from now on so might get a bit of a kicking on sale day?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Hmmm
I was looking at some of my pure lleyn lambs, admittedly they are singles but their conformation is pretty good and nice tight skins, it got me thinking that it might be much simpler to breed them all pure and not bother putting a texel over any of them but I will probably sell them all as stores from now on so might get a bit of a kicking on sale day?
I have considered that, quite a few times, too.
But i have a good thing going with my export lambs, definitely worth keeping going with Texels. But i might change in the future if markets or prices change...
I sold some Lleyn Hogg's store. Longtown put them through the ring as Cheviots
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
250 pure Lleyn twin lambs 4-6 weeks old, in for a Vecoxan dose today.
Really happy with how these are doing. One or two getting a bit dirty of the arse, hopefully this dose will put them right.
If all goes to plan, the TexX ewes and Suffolk lambs will be in tomorrow for the first time. Just a multi-vit dose for now... but I will weigh a handful too and report back, with pictures.
Really happy with how these are doing. One or two getting a bit dirty of the arse, hopefully this dose will put them right.
If all goes to plan, the TexX ewes and Suffolk lambs will be in tomorrow for the first time. Just a multi-vit dose for now... but I will weigh a handful too and report back, with pictures.
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- Location
- South east scotland
I know i shouldnt say this but... the lambing the third pic down one on the right out of the two looking at camera has a very nice head.
- Location
- South east scotland
Or 4th from the left if thats easyer
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I know i shouldnt say this but... the lambing the third pic down one on the right out of the two looking at camera has a very nice head.
The one almost in the middle of the pic, with front feet on the concrete hump?
Hopefully it's a girl... because all the boys are ball-less
(does look like he would have made a good tup)