It was for this reason I went to market and brought a charallais, im sure you followed the post "Terminal Sire" I have a southdown and a romney and altho they would be ok......it wouldnt be as good as a charollais tups results, so very soon I will be splitting the flock, romney ewes to romney tup, pure bred, southdown tup to the small shetlands, and the charollais tup for the suffolks and texal x ewes.....
last year the results of my southdown who would be comparable to a ryeland (I think) the lambs altho nice and chunky where very small half the size of the others