Three quarter cheviot mule.

[Stuart J]

Tell me the downside to putting a cheviot on chev mules to give a three quarter chev mule ewes for breeding with the texel/beltex tup for prime lambs.

 

[Stockwell]

Might not be too bad a ewe. Park Cheviot back on a Cheviot mule could end up with a monster ewe though, and not as milky as Cheviot mule.

 

[Fake it ‘til you make it]

Maybe lower lambing %age than the Cheviot miles?

 

[neilo]

Tell me the downside to putting a cheviot on chev mules to give a three quarter chev mule ewes for breeding with the texel/beltex tup for prime lambs.

Less milk, fewer lambs and more assisted lambings/losses probably, but a slightly higher lamb value perhaps?

I’m sure it would increase pride levels in the mart, but probably not profit at the end of the year.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Tell me the downside to putting a cheviot on chev mules to give a three quarter chev mule ewes for breeding with the texel/beltex tup for prime lambs.

Too much Cheviot. The BFL influence dilutes the Cheviot bad points just enough too make a really nice commercial ewe. Put the texel over the CM, keep the twin ewe lambs and put them too a beltex. real meat lambs. BUT that goes against my habit of keeping too many texel x ewes. Too much cost, not enough return. But that’s just me!

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I would go as anymulewilldo suggests. Bought a few texel x cheviot mules last year and really like them, just a bit wilder than out of N of E mules. They went into the outdoor lambing group and lambed fine

 

[Farmer Keith]

I’m trying a highlander/Cheviot criss cross to try and get away from the stratospheric system and all the inefficiency’s that brings. Running them on improved hill and moorland. Highlanders on blackies, then Cheviot, then back to highlander. Half the white ewes back to terminal. Blackie flock is shrinking and the way the white sheep are performing will continue to do so.

 

[jamesy]

I’ve been wondering about this too. I really like hill type NCC. Have some homebred Cheviot mules coming through & wondered about continuing a cross cross back & forth between hilly NCC & BFL. My main concern wouldn’t be the Cheviot tbh!

 

[sheepwise]

I’ve been wondering about this too. I really like hill type NCC. Have some homebred Cheviot mules coming through & wondered about continuing a cross cross back & forth between hilly NCC & BFL. My main concern wouldn’t be the Cheviot tbh!

Some down here doing it with the Lleyn and Cheviot on upland farms.

 

[Ysgythan]

Tell me the downside to putting a cheviot on chev mules to give a three quarter chev mule ewes for breeding with the texel/beltex tup for prime lambs.

Can speak of years of experience with Welsh Mules. Just use a Texel. Only keep multiple born ewe lambs. Select the more “muley” ones of them and you’ll be able to go back to the Texel more than twice. The downside regarding lambing percentage will not be as bad as using a Cheviot, and you’ll have a better wether to sell. Don’t be tempted to keep the shapier ewe lambs, the frame of the muley types helps at lambing and they rear better.

 

[LTH]

Can speak of years of experience with Welsh Mules. Just use a Texel. Only keep multiple born ewe lambs. Select the more “muley” ones of them and you’ll be able to go back to the Texel more than twice. The downside regarding lambing percentage will not be as bad as using a Cheviot, and you’ll have a better wether to sell. Don’t be tempted to keep the shapier ewe lambs, the frame of the muley types helps at lambing and they rear better.

We do this with north of England mules, keep a few of the more muley type texel gimmers.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

We do this with north of England mules, keep a few of the more muley type texel gimmers.

Do similar. Keep nearly all gimmers out of mules unless singles or bad doers to lamb outside. They are easy to lamb and produce an above average lamb. Have tried other maternal breeds but keep coming back to this cross.