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Pot and kettle old chap !Talk about tempting fate! Are you mad? Oh yes, I remember ...
Pot and kettle old chap !Talk about tempting fate! Are you mad? Oh yes, I remember ...
Pot and kettle old chap !
Guess who finally got my shed finished last week?
Just remember, no matter what they say, it's people like us that are the normal ones!
I may have your flashing on mine!I've still got 2 bits of flashing to go on the corners, I suspect mine might have been forgotten about. Was talking to him last weekend and should have reminded him lol. Think he might almost be "too" busy just now
Now keeping back a few 3/4 beltex, 1/4 Cheviot mule tup lambs would seem to me to be a good idea for crossing.
Wouldn ‘t it give them a bit more lung space , and mobility ? Which to me are one of their downfalls. ?
Maybe you do ?
For what it’s worth, my oldest beltex tup is approaching 3 shear status. Should I be contacting the Guinness book of world records?
Now keeping back a few 3/4 beltex, 1/4 Cheviot mule tup lambs would seem to me to be a good idea for crossing.
Wouldn ‘t it give them a bit more lung space , and mobility ? Which to me are one of their downfalls. ?
Maybe you do ?
For what it’s worth, my oldest beltex tup is approaching 3 shear status. Should I be contacting the Guinness book of world records?
Forget the lung space and mobility, the wee bit chev will put ears on them!! Real shepherds know that's the important bit
Texels are getting as badI thought I might have cracked it when I had a Beltex stock ram get to 3 shear, an he looked well on it.
He didn’t make the next winter though...
My stock tup is a B year registration, used an A registered (Y-bedol A-Team) borrowed from a friend. We got to -17 and 3 feet of snow with ours outside this winter and the borrowed one had -24 at another 100 meters above our place. Neither of them are brought inside during the heat of summer, no fans or artificial shade for our lads. Shorn last Saturday at 22 degrees no problem with coming in or being handled for shearing.
My stock tup is a B year registration, used an A registered (Y-bedol A-Team) borrowed from a friend. We got to -17 and 3 feet of snow with ours outside this winter and the borrowed one had -24 at another 100 meters above our place. Neither of them are brought inside during the heat of summer, no fans or artificial shade for our lads. Shorn last Saturday at 22 degrees no problem with coming in or being handled for shearing.
My stock tup is out of y bedol Ateam, still got him at 4yr old, problem I've got is I have too sell him this year cause too many of his daughters in the the flock and not enough work to justify keeping him
You two need to swap tups@liammogs that's the problem I have with my stock tup (Duncanstone Blade, a Corstane Whistler son). But he was born here out of a ewe I paid the princely sum of 400 quid for at our local Christmas Classic and he's done me proud and the thought of putting him away to the fat ring just doesn't appeal. I might have to buy a couple of ewes in to justify keeping him a while longer.
Bloody good idea I reckon, simplesYou two need to swap tups
My stock tup is out of y bedol Ateam, still got him at 4yr old, problem I've got is I have too sell him this year cause too many of his daughters in the the flock and not enough work to justify keeping him
Is that that cracking shearling you had out of Welshpool?
It is indeed
I remember him well. Thought I'd missed a bargain looking at him afterwards that day.