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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Hevxxx99 on September 02, 2016, 03:20:02 pm

Title: Young tups
Post by: Hevxxx99 on September 02, 2016, 03:20:02 pm

I've got 3 shearling Swaledale tups.  They were lambs that missed banding.  I'm contemplating sending them off for meat, but do you think it'll be too tainted?

I'd prefer them to go on to work for someone, but although one at least has a magnificent wide set of horns, none of them are very special. 

TBH I really don't know what to do with them!

Title: Re: Young tups
Post by: Marches Farmer on September 02, 2016, 03:27:00 pm

Advertise on a board at the gate?  Someone may need a tup in a hurry if theirs keels over.  How about the cull pen at the livestock market?

Title: Re: Young tups
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 02, 2016, 03:27:23 pm

They'll taste fabulous if you send them off now, or in spring. 

Sadly, it's not hard to buy really good Crowned Swaley tups for not a lot of money, so the likelihood of finding them working homes are remote.  Well, zero.  Sorry.