TexX ewes - which Tup to use?
- Thread starter Nithsdale
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Very clean around the backend there schollard, good fleshy lambs.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
A lot cleaner than my lambs... this weather has took its toll on them
I hear you, wet month here, great grass growth but it's running through them. All dosed and drenched but still abit black around the tail end are my lambs.
Sheeponfire
Member
grand looking stock.. you have them well turned out..
whats the plan for them... and the suff lambs?
Suffolks and another pen of suffolks were sold privately yesterday, shipped today. The charmoise, few texels and bad udder ewes are going to thainstone today as well for sale on Friday.
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- Fife
They look very well for something which is 25% Shetland. How do the Shetland X Cheviot wethers perform?
So do we have a decision on which tup?
We buy in the cheviot ewe lambs so I don't have any wethers to sell.
I think they look well but they sell today so we will soon see.
Shame about the little sh!t standing at the front at the start of the video!
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- Fife
How much do they cost you?
Private deal so you'll have to mind your own business on that one I'm afraid!
At the breeding sales you'd spend about £65 to £70 for decent ewe lambs.
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- Fife
Never mind, no harm in asking
shy bairns get nowt and all that. Do they herd with a dog? Or are they like the Shetland in that respect?
I will keep my eyes peeled. Which breeding sales do you recommend?
highland-man
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- Location
- Caithness
Finally took on this thread and have read right through it ! Thoroughly enjoyed the read.
I think this is what makes farming such an interesting way of life. No two farms are run the same way and despite all the wildly different opinions there is several "right" ways to farm as well as wrong ways. Kudos for all the updates Nithsdale Farmer.
Best of luck with the new tupping season everyone
I think this is what makes farming such an interesting way of life. No two farms are run the same way and despite all the wildly different opinions there is several "right" ways to farm as well as wrong ways. Kudos for all the updates Nithsdale Farmer.
Best of luck with the new tupping season everyone
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
So...
After last year's experiment, I hinted at another this year.
Well here they are
NCC Park type bought at Lockerbie on Wednesday.
I decided to go with the Park, and not Hill, type as I want to keep some size and more importantly length in my ewes... Not that the Hill type is short, but I felt they wouldn't add as much to my ewes as the Park should.
The plan is a 1-off cross onto my Lleyn ewes, then breed back to the Lleyn... just to 'lift' the flock. I have Park X lleyn ewes running from a Park visitor a few years ago, and I do like them and their Texel lambs. The Cheviot blood is easy to see, the lambs weigh and fleshen very easily.
After last year's experiment, I hinted at another this year.
Well here they are
I decided to go with the Park, and not Hill, type as I want to keep some size and more importantly length in my ewes... Not that the Hill type is short, but I felt they wouldn't add as much to my ewes as the Park should.
The plan is a 1-off cross onto my Lleyn ewes, then breed back to the Lleyn... just to 'lift' the flock. I have Park X lleyn ewes running from a Park visitor a few years ago, and I do like them and their Texel lambs. The Cheviot blood is easy to see, the lambs weigh and fleshen very easily.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Why not keep making Chev X Lleyns?
Just out of interest?
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Look nice clean lengthy powerful tups
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Great plan that man
If this next chapter is half as entertaining as the last one , you ( and your avid readers) will be on to a winner!
Please give us due warning when you plan to " remove " your tups !
If this next chapter is half as entertaining as the last one , you ( and your avid readers) will be on to a winner!
Please give us due warning when you plan to " remove " your tups !
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I'm a closed flock, currently don't have the scale needed to do that properly. But, having said that, those 2 are going with 3 pure Lleyns and out to 250 ewes. They will serve what they serve...
Will see how things go, before deciding the future
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Cheers. I am very pleased with them.
Dad is in a wee bit of shock... he can (just) remember my Grandfather putting the Cheviots (Southies) off in the early 50's when the farm switched to Blackies. He never thought we would be going back to Cheviots
Great plan that man
If this next chapter is half as entertaining as the last one , you ( and your avid readers) will be on to a winner!
Please give us due warning when you plan to " remove " your tups !
I'll keep you all updated
The sooner I turn the tups out, the sooner I can pull them off again