The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Fowlman on May 02, 2012, 02:44:15 pm
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New girls.
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Is this your first Shetlands if so I predict you will have more, Plenty of grass for them.
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Awww lovely girlies, I do love Shetlands :)
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Is this your first Shetlands if so I predict you will have more, Plenty of grass for them.
Yes my first shetlands and a bit different from the commercials i have had in the past but so far yes we love them.
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OMG look at the grass ;)
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I've got Shetlands this year after years of commercial sheep. I'm pretty impressed with a very straightforward lambing and no pets. They're good little sheep ;D
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Pigs on there last year Rosemary so its growing like mad.
Glad to hear it jaykay.
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I've got Shetlands this year after years of commercial sheep. I'm pretty impressed with a very straightforward lambing and no pets. They're good little sheep ;D
Last year my 30 shetlands produced 45 suffolkX lambs which sold in october at an average of 38kg for £58 each. They never needed the vet and didnt eat much. In my opinion that makes them "commercial."
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Even on the 'proper' farming forums, the Shetland, at least as a cross, is getting a lot more respect than previously, and a lot fewer rude remarks, mainly because of the move towards lower intervention, lower overhead sheep. They have their downsides (need good fences, can be a pain to round up, rams can be hostile to another ram) but in terms of a low input flocks they are great!
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Better to spend money on a good fence that lasts 20 years than on feed to to keep a big ewe through the winter
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I think my shetland are fantastic - I only have 11 and they are only now a year old but they are easy to look after / handle which was why I have them and can't wait for lambing next year
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Better to spend money on a good fence that lasts 20 years than on feed to to keep a big ewe through the winter
Especially as after spending money on the ewe she might still peg it - easier to bear if the stock didnt cost too much to buy....
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They seem to be settling in well. :thumbsup: