- Location
- West Wales
Mine are going I’ll take cull price, yearling-7 year olds, fat as mud, 270 to pick fromAll the Texels culled then.
Mine are going I’ll take cull price, yearling-7 year olds, fat as mud, 270 to pick fromAll the Texels culled then.
This approach also has the advantage of keeping your ewe depreciation cost down. Culling may seem attractive on today’s cull market but we won’t really know the replacement cost until the autumn.I think this approach has a lot to recommend it. Culling a ewe for a relatively minor fault seems harsh and so you may be less inclined to do it. Having the option to relegate her instead to the B flock makes it easier.
Bad feet
Bad bags
Shitty arses
Bad mothering
No milk
Prolapsing
Ceaser
Bad doers
Any that look at me the wrong way
first lesson i learnt with sheep , dealer neighbour told me to stand other side of hedge when they got out and shoot the first two through , i didnt do that but i marked then culled them , guess what no more getting out , done it ever sinceEscapers
Does this work with goats?first lesson i learnt with sheep , dealer neighbour told me to stand other side of hedge when they got out and shoot the first two through , i didnt do that but i marked then culled them , guess what no more getting out , done it ever since
I think this approach has a lot to recommend it. Culling a ewe for a relatively minor fault seems harsh and so you may be less inclined to do it. Having the option to relegate her instead to the B flock makes it easier.
first lesson i learnt with sheep , dealer neighbour told me to stand other side of hedge when they got out and shoot the first two through , i didnt do that but i marked then culled them , guess what no more getting out , done it ever since
Home bred sheep aren’t expensive to cull either. Most culls I get are worth the same as a store lamb. So just keep more ewe lambs and cull more ewes. I’m just starting out being hard on culling after running mules where they are expensive to cull and you might end up buying a worse sheep than you had beforeIf you breed replacements, you can think of it as looking to give a chance to as much of your newest genetics as possible.
Culling doesn't have to be looked at in a negative light.
Constant jumpers want culling no questions, they just unsettle all the rest an getting out becomes normal practice! Trouble makers just need to die, life’s to short, it’s a sheep not your granny, get it gone!!
That’s 70% of my herd thoCan I add Jumping Sheep please to list?
dont leave it too long as shell still teach others...Had one a week or two ago. Escaped by herself through a weak spot ìn fence. I fixed and put her back in. Next day she was out again and brought another two with her. Sporting a nice pretty red tag now for a bus pass later in the season.