Thinking of getting a beltex...am I mad

AftonShepherd

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Livestock Farmer
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East Ayrshire
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
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
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Montgomeryshire
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?😂

I 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...
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
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 😍
 

MJT

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Forget the lung space and mobility, the wee bit chev will put ears on them!! Real shepherds know that's the important bit 😍

You joke , but I’ve been told by more than one person that the mother of the ram that used to hold the record price for a Beltex years ago was a CheviotX Beltex :ROFLMAO: . Looking at pictures of him it’s very believable……lovely sharp lugs :banghead:
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
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.
 

spark_28

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Location
Western isles
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.

do you sell any shearlings or recommend a decent place to get a reasonably priced one
 

liammogs

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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
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
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Aberdeenshire
@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.
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
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
@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.
You two need to swap tups 🤷‍♂️
 

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