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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: pikilily on July 24, 2011, 08:57:17 pm

Title: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: pikilily on July 24, 2011, 08:57:17 pm

IF there were four Castlemilk Moorit ewes for sale would anyone be interested? They are 8/9yrs old - apparently this breed can carry on producing lambs until their mid teens! These girls have not had any lambs., are in very good health, only ever fed organic feed, hay and grazing.

The ewes belong to a friend of mine. I am trying to persuaed them to do the responsible thing, and sell these ewes to someone else who would wish to get a crop of lambs....hence keeping the gene pool open.   If they knew there was interest they would get their act together before its too late!!!!

Let me know...
Emma T

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: Rosemary on July 25, 2011, 05:28:31 pm

If you don't get any joy here - presumably they would be best going to someone with a CM tup - try the RBST for  CM breeder.

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: pikilily on July 25, 2011, 06:57:58 pm

thanks Rosemary...its really a tentative enquiry! I found the website last night and was having a moozy about. Someone, from near Edinburgh, was looking for four ewes but there is no date on their post. Its really none of my business but I just think its a shame to see these four go to waste, not produce some lambs to keep the lines going! I know if someone was to go to my friends and say I want to buy your ewes they would sell....i would take them but i have enough here.
Emma T  :) :)

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: Rosemary on July 25, 2011, 10:11:37 pm

You'll be like a fairy godmother - bringing ewes and tup together to make sweet music. And lambs  :)

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: katie on July 25, 2011, 10:14:43 pm

Would they be ok lambing at that age as they have never lambed before?

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: pikilily on July 25, 2011, 10:30:19 pm

I dont know Katie....it would, i think be preferable to have had them lamb by now,. But, they apparently can lamb into their mid teens, so if you equate it to commercial ewes who have a lambing life of four or five crops but dont lamb until their second or third year its works out about the same, maybe!! ??

I suppose it may be a risk, but.... also apparently as the get older they get more prolific so the lambs would be smaller born - easier??
Emma T
perhaps someone with more experience can answer with more authority  ;) ;)

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: katie on July 27, 2011, 06:06:55 pm

I wasn't nitpicking, just curious. :)I'd have thought, given their rarity, it would be worth the risk. They certainly ain't going to increase the gene pool by sitting there doing nothing!

Title: Re: Castlemilk Moorit Ewes
Post by: pikilily on July 31, 2011, 06:55:35 pm

Spot on my thoughts Katie....its a waste. They do come from a good line - apparently.
You interested???????
Emma T