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Nice looking lambs, gives me hopes for my lleyn ewes, I asked on here about them pre tupping and put the Cheviot in on your advice [emoji2] *fingers crossed*Just for you. Chev X lambs from the Lleyns...
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And Chev X lambs from the TexX ewes
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View attachment 645944 Here we go, first of the reverse experiment, lleyn lamb out the cheviot ewe. Pity the photo doesn’t show the pissing rain, but she is grand , and due another !
No need to open a can of worms @Bill dogAway - proper Lleyns have very weather proof coats on them!...
Unless of course you've bought poorly (I tend to go for the ones which are shorter legged and blocky... probably have a bit of Cheviot or Welsh Mountain blood in them somewhere anyway)
Them sheep look in fine nick. A credit to you.What is in the cross along with texel? I could do with a few of them sand dunes. Buried quad out feeding today.Pre lambing treatments to our texel x ladies yesterday
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Still windy here, but no more rain so far. Things are drying up after yesterday already - the fields are no as soggy as I would have expected. All of yesterday's problems appear to have sorted themselves out in the shed, so it was just the 'pets' to feed this morning. They are on the shepherdess so it's an easy and quick job. The gimmer which wouldn't stand for the lamb which had a slight swollen head... well that lamb is dead this morning with a lot of bloody foam at it's nose, the other lamb is fine though. But the rest are all fine.
No problems outside, which I'm thankful for as the bike trailer has a flat tyre
1 ewe lambed in the TexX ewes, twins but one is dead. That's the last 3 twins in there have all had only 1 live. Why does that always happen when a batch gets near the end?! Bloody frustrating
2 sets of twins in the hill ewes and 1 single, all going great.
3 sets of twins and 1 triplet in the commercials... annoying the last twins last night one of them is dead this morning, despite being very solid and strong lambs and both bellies were full as barrels
Lambing feels like it is going very slowly at the moment. I feel more like it's almost finished, than just 1/4 - 1/3 of the way in... I don't feel like there's many lambs going about, either. Must confess I'm concerned for final numbers at the moment. But it's very hard to tell, hopefully it's just the weather has run me down a bit - the good weather of last Thursday and Friday seems a distant memory...
Nice looking lambs, gives me hopes for my lleyn ewes, I asked on here about them pre tupping and put the Cheviot in on your advice [emoji2] *fingers crossed*
How are they? Less skittish than a pure Cheviot?
Smart looking ewe, but I’m afraid I don’t like her much !The single in the hill ewes @Bill dog @hendrebc was my ChevX. Was looking forward to seeing her this morning, as she was away up the dyke back at dusk last night looking like she was thinking about lambing.
It's a Lleyn lamb she has had, and a boy, sadly.
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EDIT: the hill ewes are lambing on the field which had the 30ft stretch of dyke down. It hadnt been grazed since October. Just 1 field with this much grass, the rest of the farm is shaved bare like previous pictures
The ewes are mostly Shetland /cheviot x texel. Few are just Shetland x cheviot.Them sheep look in fine nick. A credit to you.What is in the cross along with texel? I could do with a few of them sand dunes. Buried quad out feeding today.
Have you the scanning wrapped up? Feckin snow means I have another couple of days in the mountain as we couldn't get gathered and of course the usual stragglers with ewe lambs etc.
Smart looking ewe, but I’m afraid I don’t like her much !
I much prefer sheep with feet , and pasterns ! There is something blocking my view of them in your picture
Think he's referring to fact you appear to have grassNot sure what you mean
My only concern with her is... this is her 3rd lambing. Twins the first year then a single the last 2, hopefully that's not an indication to lesser lambs