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What would you use on them, opinions please !!
What would you use on them, opinions please !!
What are you hoping to achieve from their progeny?
Are you wanting an easy lambing, that you don't have to touch at all, don't drag the teg down, but aren't worth a lot at the end? In that case something like a Welsh Mountain or a Soay perhaps (remember that you've got to look at them every day too).
Are you wanting to have an easy lambing and potential maternal cross females? Then perhaps a Lleyn?
Are you after an easy lambing and a decent, albeit light weight, carcass to sell the following Spring? If so maybe a Beltex or Charmoise Hill?
Or perhaps an easy lambing and a lamb that grows to a decent carcass & weight by the Autumn, but might drag the teg down a little more (ultimately you don't get it out without putting it in somewhere)? In which case a wedge shaped Charollais would hit the spot.
Alternatively, forget the easy lambing and use a Texel or pretty well any native lowland breed.
Would all of the above apply for an outdoor 1st April lambing?
Going to be keeping some of our own Tex cross ewe lambs this year and Char tup sounds ideal but keep reading on here that Char lambs are too soft for an outdoor upland lambing. Are they really that soft or are the woollier headed types hardy enough?
Would all of the above apply for an outdoor 1st April lambing?
Going to be keeping some of our own Tex cross ewe lambs this year and Char tup sounds ideal but keep reading on here that Char lambs are too soft for an outdoor upland lambing. Are they really that soft or are the woollier headed types hardy enough?
Blue face Leicester ,come out like torpedos
We lambed 100 last year tupped to a beltex and charolais, lamb easy and we left them as singles, as 25 were twins, just looking at options as we killed the 2 charlies, were getting on but still got tbe beltex, all other tups are texels, so might get another few charlies as lambs fone well and good shapes, lambed indoors in march, thanks for opinions !!