Typical. I wait years for another member of this forum to mention Hill Radnors and its about cull ewes!
I love Hill Radnors, they are such fantastic sheep!!
Anyhoo, of the soap box.
A fellow Radnor breeder told me he got £55 each for some very poor condition ewes recently. They were in a pen with 5 Suffolk ewes who went for £100 each and there is more than double the amount of meat on a Suffolk.
We have failed in selling some of our Balwens ewes, so they are all off to market and the abattoir soon. I have never eaten mutton (gasp
) and the smell of hogget does put me off. Don't know why. But, I am determind to eat some mutton with veg and pearl barley and cooked for hours and hours. Mouth is watering already.
On the granny lambing, our eldest Balwens are 8 and have lambed this year, have most of their teeth and look in great condition.