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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: sokel on August 12, 2014, 09:52:17 pm

Title: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: sokel on August 12, 2014, 09:52:17 pm

All being well we are off to look at a Coloure Ryeland  Tup  tomorrow , we have decided that its time we had our own so that we can lamb when we want too rather than have to wait until a local one has finished tupping their own flock
so  :fc: he is what we are looking for :excited:

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: Bionic on August 12, 2014, 10:14:39 pm

I bought a Coloured Ryeland lamb last year and he served my 5 ewes well. He has been great and I love him to bits. I hope yours is just as good.
Unfortunately, as I am not going to lamb next year mine has got to go  :(

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: sokel on August 14, 2014, 08:45:55 pm

Well we ended up just getting there today and he is gorgeous. He obviously had to come home with us
He is very friendly and will walk on a halter

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: SallyintNorth on August 14, 2014, 09:18:20 pm

Brilliant :)

We shall, of course, require a pic or three  :eyelashes:

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: sokel on August 14, 2014, 10:11:06 pm

As soon as we get some dry weather and I am not getting chased around by someone's escaped psycho cow and her bull calf  ::) I will take some

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: mowhaugh on August 15, 2014, 07:56:06 am

That's good news (about the tup, not the psycho cow!)

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: Mammyshaz on August 15, 2014, 08:56:17 am

Sounds good and friendly. I will wait for piccies to drool at  :hugsheep:

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: maddy on August 20, 2014, 08:23:47 am

I also am getting my own ryeland ram in a couple of weeks for my 5 ryeland girls.  How are you going to keep him? 

Will mine be content enough with a wether companion but in the next field.  They will be able to see each other through the stock fencing or is it kinder to move him completely away so he can't see the girls?

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: Bionic on August 20, 2014, 08:42:26 am

Mine hasn't had a wether for company but the girls have been in the next field and each time we rotate we make sure he can see them. They often sit side by side, with the fence in between. He seems to have been quite happy. He now has the ram lambs for company and the will all be going to the next sale together.

Title: Re: Going to look at a Tup
Post by: sokel on August 21, 2014, 11:18:32 am

Ours is quite happy with all of the ram Lambs and he can see the girls in the 2 fields on either side of him.
He will be in with the girls by the time the Lambs go but will have  to have to rethink when he comes out.
At his previous place home (where he was born) he ran with the girls all year round