Well, yesterday we started our sheep-keeping careers with the arrival of our lovely Ryeland store lambs. We have 8 entire boys, all aged between 13 and 16 weeks. They appear to be quiet, kindly boys, all content to graze and cud and they stay in quite a small area of their 2 acre field. But I appreciate that they are new here and maybe not so confident yet.
My neighbour came to see them today and was alarmed to find that the lambs weren't wethers. He said that our other neighbour, who breeds prize-winning Texels and is a big-wig in the breed, will be horrified to find entire lambs next to his Texel gimmers.
I don't want to cause a problem for anyone, certainly not my Texel neighbour. Im satisfied that our fences are stock-proof but the boundary between us and the Texel breeder isn't ours. It looks stock-proof but I cant be abs sure as some of the hedge on it is very overgrown.
Can anyone advise me when my boys will start to become interested in ewes? We intend to slaughter the boys in pairs from November 2015 to February 2016.