The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: zwartbles on June 29, 2016, 06:08:21 am
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We appear to have a new breed of ginger sheep. Can anyone identify them please?? :excited:
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You know you're a cute little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy
I wanna take you home
I won't do you no harm (though that is perhaps somewhat debatable), no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
(BTW, I've never seen a Zwartbles with horns before. Is she pure bred, or a cross?)
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That's a Jacob-Dorset/ryeland cross wether that's in charge of the ram lambs!!
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That's a Jacob-Dorset/ryeland cross wether that's in charge of the ram lambs!!
And that is why I get ripped off at auctions :roflanim:.
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That's a Jacob-Dorset/ryeland cross wether that's in charge of the ram lambs!!
That cross sounds as if it gives a lovely spinning fleece :spin:. Do you use it for craftwork?
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We only sell a handful of fleeces to crafters each year. Zwartbles shearling fleeces are popular because of staple length and crimp. Rest go to BWMB for 2p each ;D
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We only sell a handful of fleeces to crafters each year. Zwartbles shearling fleeces are popular because of staple length and crimp. Rest go to BWMB for 2p each ;D
It could be worth having a good look at the wether cross's fleece as you could well be able to sell that as a speciality fleece. Better than 2p :o
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What???!!! 2P???!!! That is outrageous! Sorry for the rant :roflanim: I sell my Lleyn fleeces about between £1.00 and 90p maybe per fleece? It would be better to see what prices the British wool marketing bord pay and try and sell em the fleeces, or at least look what they charge.
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The Wool Board is not fond of most black fleece, except top quality Shetland. Were we to send ours to them (Hebs) it would cost us more to have them collected than we would get, also to deliver them to the nearest collection point. I think it's to do with dyeing.
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The BWMB is great if you take a trip to Bradford and they will sell you wonderful prepared fleece from any breed you could want. I feel really lucky as one of my zwartble rams has a fleece the spinners really like and I sold this years for £10, I only wanted £3 to cover shearing costs but a bidding war broke out at the guild meeting.
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I think it is slightly more than 2p WBFarmer :relief: . Black colour does restrict value. We get £8 for good Zwartbles fleeces sold privately.