Author Topic: Going to look at a Tup  (Read 3537 times)

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Going to look at a Tup
« on: August 12, 2014, 09:52:17 pm »
All being well we are off to look at a Coloure Ryeland  Tup  tomorrow , we have decided that its time we had our own so that we can lamb when we want too rather than have to wait until a local one has finished tupping their own flock
so  :fc: he is what we are looking for :excited:
Graham

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2014, 10:14:39 pm »
I bought a Coloured Ryeland lamb last year and he served my 5 ewes well. He has been great and I love him to bits. I hope yours is just as good.
Unfortunately, as I am not going to lamb next year mine has got to go  :(
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2014, 08:45:55 pm »
Well we ended up just getting there today and he is gorgeous. He obviously had to come home with us
He is very friendly and will walk on a halter
Graham

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2014, 09:18:20 pm »
Brilliant :)

We shall, of course, require a pic or three  :eyelashes:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2014, 10:11:06 pm »
As soon as we get some dry weather and I am not getting chased around by someone's escaped psycho cow and her bull calf  ::) I will take some
Graham

mowhaugh

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Scottish Borders
    • Facebook
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2014, 07:56:06 am »
That's good news (about the tup, not the psycho cow!)

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2014, 08:56:17 am »
Sounds good and friendly. I will wait for piccies to drool at  :hugsheep:


maddy

  • Joined Jul 2012
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2014, 08:23:47 am »
I also am getting my own ryeland ram in a couple of weeks for my 5 ryeland girls.  How are you going to keep him? 

Will mine be content enough with a wether companion but in the next field.  They will be able to see each other through the stock fencing or is it kinder to move him completely away so he can't see the girls?

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2014, 08:42:26 am »
Mine hasn't had a wether for company but the girls have been in the next field and each time we rotate we make sure he can see them. They often sit side by side, with the fence in between. He seems to have been quite happy. He now has the ram lambs for company and the will all be going to the next sale together.
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Going to look at a Tup
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2014, 11:18:32 am »
Ours is quite happy with all of the ram Lambs and he can see the girls in the 2 fields on either side of him.
He will be in with the girls by the time the Lambs go but will have  to have to rethink when he comes out.
At his previous place home (where he was born) he ran with the girls all year round
Graham

 

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