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We put nz sufftex on cast hill cheviots
Would you keep any females?
We put nz sufftex on cast hill cheviots
Did the same with one of my Easycare triplets last night, just starting at 11pm so I chuckled her in a loose box. Three lambs up and sooked this morningi do my final check at 10pm.....had an exlana x starting but thought feck it and left her....she was fine.....today exlana hogg......left her while popped out.....fine to
point being i'm getting confident in leaving them where as my others i wouldn't
So keeping a flock of sheep should only ever be as a hobby ?
The last place I saw real old fashioned BFL with real bone and proper blue heads was at the tup sale Longtown have the same day as their Mule Ewe lamb sale. Hardly see them anywhere now! I've seen Chevi mules by the brown faced BFL, they were that good I didn't bother too look twice in the pen.Where does someone find a good old fashioned one ??
I've often thought about splitting the flock and putting half to a BFL but after a few years of seeing BFLs out of Stirling land here after the ram rendezvous there's no much left of them come Xmas, if they make it that far!!
No worries! Always used Dutch texel or Beltex x Texel on them before. Fancied a change so I thought the Rouge had to be given a chance.You'll need to put up some pics of the Rouge lambs before they go fat
Can't remember the last time I checked sheep after midnight... I don't think going on a mates stag do a couple of years ago and getting home at 3 that pee'd I slept in the shed as I couldn't get up the steps too the farmhouse counts!of course the other option for the op is not to check them at 3am
Can't remember the last time I checked sheep after midnight... I don't think going on a mates stag do a couple of years ago and getting home at 3 that pee'd I slept in the shed as I couldn't get up the steps too the farmhouse counts!
No good to them hungry either! Always have breakfast before my first trundle round the fields.i've learnt the hard way that you're no good to them knackered ....i still dread first look in the morning though
Luckily for us there is me and my younger brother. He wakes up every morning at 5.45, has done since he was a kid so he does all first checks then works till 6pm. I don't start till 8.30am unless there is a cock up to solve. Evening feeding is all finished by 5.30pm and by 10 they are usually all lying down going too sleep. I do the "night" lambing but it's very very rare I'm out after 11.30.i've learnt the hard way that you're no good to them knackered ....i still dread first look in the morning though
@sjewart breeds real BFL’s . She could get you a blue or 2 no probs !Where does someone find a good old fashioned one ??
I've often thought about splitting the flock and putting half to a BFL but after a few years of seeing BFLs out of Stirling land here after the ram rendezvous there's no much left of them come Xmas, if they make it that far!!
Artificially created composites by get-rich-quick companies, targeted at gullible would-be sheep farmers, come and go. Meanwhile, those breeds and crosses established by dedicated sheepmen over generations seem to remain.
I just can't understand it. We have all had ample opportunity to adopt Stabilisers (in the cattle world) or the equivalent Highlanders (in the sheep world), but for some peculiar reason, we still favour the tried and tested breeds and crosses.
bfl 's are very noticeable in their absence in the 'land of the long white cloud'.......
Would AA and Lincoln Red not be similarly bred, going well back. I think the Shorthorn also shares the same tap root. This sounds like an ideal opening for @Wolds Beef to share his knowledge!The Blue-faced Leicester (producing mules) ousted the Teeswater and Wensleydale as a Maternal sire in traditional Masham Country.
It ousted the Border Leicester as a maternal sire on Blackface ewes from Sutherland to Roxburghshire and North Northumberland.
And more recently it has ousted the Border Leicester as a maternal sire on all types of Cheviot, from Caithness to all points South.
It truly is the aristocrat of all sheep breeds. In fact, the opening question could have been: What beef breed is the equivalent of the Blueface? I would nominate either the Simmental or the Limousin, because they can be used to produce booth finished cattle or breeding cattle from all traditional hill and lowland breeds.
But if I still had the opportunity to develop a new breed, I would try to stabilise a cross between the Lincoln Red and a traditional Aberdeen Angus (free of North American black Holstein). In about 1970, Lincoln Red X Aberdeen Angus suckled calves, bred on the SAC farm of Clashnoir in Glenlivet, topped the Granton-on-Spey calf sale. And that was some accolade.
It’s probably for the same reason that so few farms have properly designed and implemented grazing rotations. They always did it that way.