Worcester charollais

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About 25/30 years ago i remember dad keeping a handful of suffolk x mules ram lambs to use as tup lambs on next years mule ewe lambs. Looked upon as so backward now, but he was a top stockman, i kept 2 char x mule ram lambs for teasers, last minute left them entire. Used 2 charmoise, 1 expensive beltex x char, these 2 cross breds, and 3char ram lambs and one older one, fed, on 600 mule ewe lambs. Sold as store lambs at exeter, talked about on price tracker, nett x bred tups paid best, then charmoise, then other 5 the same. E u grade lambs do still return profit regardless what people say, but selling stores out of ewe lambs a useless x bred tup averaged heavier lambs than pure tups and basically were a 65 pound asset and sold 5 months later at 131 it seems an easy system? Add to the fact easiest lambing ever

All this proves to my mind is that there is as much in the feeding as the breeding.

 

[Ysgythan]

All this proves to my mind is that there is as much in the feeding as the breeding.

ah you can’t feed them, that’s illegal.

 

[@dlm]

All this proves to my mind is that there is as much in the feeding as the breeding.

cant decide my answer, ewe lambs are fed nothing most years bar a few feed blocks when weather really bad, their lambs fed nothing at all but are on good grass leys. So no real feed but grass has to be included, i always think good grass leys cheap compared to hard feed but equally they dont come for nothing!!