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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: twizzel on August 09, 2016, 12:38:59 pm
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After many years of raising tame lambs, we have bought our first small flock of ewes. 8 lleyn x texel shearlings, they are settling in well and will go to a poll dorset ram in early autumn for lambing late feb/early march. Or that's the current plan ;D The short one on the left has already been named Stumpy :roflanim: We are keeping a tame ewe lamb so will have 9 to lamb next spring- the ewe lamb is fit to kill now so hopefully will go to the ram as well. They have been used to a dog and not had any cake, so working on taming them up at the moment but I think they will come around sooner or later (I hope :roflanim: )
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:excited:
congratulations!
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Congratulations! :excited: They look great, keep us posted on how they do. (And don't forget me at shearing time ;))
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They look absoloutely fab! Makes a good cross too, texel x lleyn x dorset very nice indeed!
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Congratulations :thumbsup: Must be something in the air, I'm ending the day with five times as many sheep as I started it after a trip to the mart this morning :)
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They look absoloutely fab! Makes a good cross too, texel x lleyn x dorset very nice indeed!
Thanks! I'm pleased with them. I wanted something easy to lamb for their first lambing, a friend has a poll dorset available and I like that breed, some of our tame lambs are dorset mule crosses and produce a nice long lean carcass that is slightly slower growing to the big frame Texel lambs that go over fat very easily. I am excited to see what the cross brings :)