[landhallow]

Hiya, anyone know what age a Castlemilk Moorit would be ready for the freezer?

[Dogwalker]

I took two wethers last year at about 17 months, they were delicious.

[daveh]

What live weight were they at that age?


Regards, David

[Rosemary]

I had CM mutton at SallyintNorth's and it was delicious. Can't help with the weights etc but you have a treat in store 

[Dogwalker]

I had 22kgs from the big one and 14kgs from the runty one back from the abbatoir.
Couldn't tell you the live weight sorry,
heavy and fast enough to have to call on my neighbour to rugby tackle them into the trailer for me.

[SallyintNorth]

Thank you Rosemary 

We bought our wethers at 20 months and frankly they needed a jolly good summer to put some flesh on.  9 months later they were filled out, beautiful healthy creatures.  The better three were 32-35kgs liveweight, the lesser not quite 30kgs.  I got 55kgs in all from the 4.

You can read - and see - more detail here.

As yet I can't confirm that two summers, rather than three, is required to fatten and fitten CMs - but that is my expectation, that they'll be ready at 18 months-ish.  If not, I shan't worry too much - they don't need much and are so beautiful to see.