The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Coximus on August 31, 2014, 10:34:29 pm
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Hey, Im new here to here goes!
Has anyone ever crossed a ryeland Ram to Hebridean? How did it go, i have this as an option this year coming, but dont want to do anything that would cause difficult lambing for the ewes.
The Heb's in question have always lambed themselves - Intervention has been limited to fighting the mothers to move from lambing area to field as they tend to just pop them out when your looking the other way.
Also if anyone has, how did the lambs grow? Were they any good as butchers lambs or kept as ewes in their own right?
The reason I ask is I have the option of a Ryeland Ram, and buying some ewes I've helped with, and I particularly like the look of Ryelands and Hebs!
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Person up the road did soay X Dorset which is similar lambs were small born but grew on well
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thannks - I did consider soays once, but having seen them ringbark everything they can I dont think ill go down that route.
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Hi if you look at the hebridean society Facebook page in the posts by others section you will see a lady has recently posted pictures of this cross and the lamb seems good I guess you could ask her via Facebook how she got on with them but from the post she seems happy