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m3joeEm

  • Joined Jan 2015
  • Northern Ireland
Re: mule ewe lambs ??
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2015, 03:58:56 am »
There would be about 40 on 70 acres , could spend a month or two on grass next year before selling as hoggets, hard to know what to do  :-\

firther

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • holmfirth, west yorkshire
Re: mule ewe lambs ??
« Reply #16 on: September 02, 2015, 06:43:49 am »
I did mean mules sell well as shearlings btw lol

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: mule ewe lambs ??
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2015, 10:04:57 am »
It's hard because we don't know your climate.  Clearly, from the posts in this thread, there's a heck of a difference between moorland in North Yorkshire and in southwest Northumberland, which are nearly next door to each other, but N Yorks is further south and east and enjoys significantly easier conditions than southwest Northumberland.

Best thing would be to ask local sheep farmers. ;).  Also about which lambs to buy, and from whom/where - some producers will produce hardier sheep than others.
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