Author Topic: Ryelands  (Read 19748 times)

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2013, 05:00:25 pm »
they taste good if that helps


but then so do shetlands....




sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2013, 06:42:43 pm »
The second the whole flock ran up to us and wanted strokes we where smitten big time, all 4 are coloured and we cant wait to get them
Graham

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2013, 07:14:21 pm »
Can I ask who it is that you're buying from?

Slimjim

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • North Devon
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2013, 07:58:30 am »
The one thing about Ryelands not mentioned so far is their feet. They are ace!! I have never had to deal with any problems at all - quite different from some other breeds in my flock. What I have done though is trim the wool around their eyes from time to time - I just think they ought to be able to see ok. Good luck with them  - they will love you.

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2013, 02:31:52 pm »
I am getting impatient already waiting for them to come  ::) Cant wait !
Graham

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2013, 03:20:20 pm »
When do you get them?
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2013, 03:54:57 pm »
Congratulations Graham, I am sure they will do well for you.

Rosemary, am I misremembering, or did you have a C-section on one last year?  Not to frighten Graham  :o, just if there was anything to learn out of the experience ;)
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: Ryelands
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2013, 06:22:06 pm »
When do you get them?
She is putting them in with her tups this week for us once they have been tupped we can collect them
Graham

jacoblambuk

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2013, 08:01:20 pm »
Hi I've been thinking for awhile about ryelands that's why i was going to sell my herdwicks have you seen on preloved about the ewes from whitehaven £295-00 each I'm not quite that daft  :roflanim:

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2013, 08:28:25 pm »
Rosemary, am I misremembering, or did you have a C-section on one last year?  Not to frighten Graham  :o , just if there was anything to learn out of the experience ;)

Small gimmer ( I mean small for a Ryeland), large single lamb.

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2013, 08:33:21 pm »
Hi I've been thinking for awhile about ryelands that's why i was going to sell my herdwicks have you seen on preloved about the ewes from whitehaven £295-00 each I'm not quite that daft  :roflanim:
Yes I saw them  :o
Graham

bizzielizzie66

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Kent
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2013, 07:50:00 pm »
My Ryeland lambs' weight gain was astronomical compared to my neighbour's mules - conversion rates were excellent.  It has to be said though - if they are so good as a breed (meat tastes good, great fleece and footrot resistant) why did they become a rare/minority one? I would say that lambing certainly has something to do with it. Lambs seem a little more "special" for the first 24- 48 hours - perhaps need more TLC than some.

 :wave:
Keeper of Ryelands (learner) , Geese, Bantams, Chickens, Ducks , Horses & Cattle.  Animal Feed Merchant by day & BSc Agriculture graduate of yore :)

kaz

  • Joined Jul 2008
  • Ceredigion
  • Dust yourself off when life throws you down.
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2013, 10:44:57 pm »
I think you will find that the Ryelands became rare as the trend was for smaller cheaper joints of meat which the Ryeland doesn't have and the bottom fell out of the wool market and they are not the best sheep to shear. The local sheep here are half the size at least to a Ryeland, but I know what I like best.
Penybont Ryelands. Ystwyth Coloured Ryelands.  2 alpacas, 2 angora goats, 2 anglo nubian kids, 3golden retrievers a collie and a red fox labrador retriever, geese, ducks & chickens.

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2013, 06:19:11 pm »
It's fashion!  From George III's son paying enough to buy a small country estate to hire a Southdown ram for one season (yes, really) they fell from favour and now are coming back again.  Sold two of ours to a farmer to use on Scotch Mules lambing outdoors at 1000 ft who was fed up with the thin-skinned lambs produced by the (currently fashionable) Charollais rams he was using.

wellies

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • Shrewsbury
    • Fairfax Ryeland Flock
    • Facebook
Re: Ryelands
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2013, 05:32:23 pm »
we have Ryelands and I adore them. I find them easy to handle, mainly because they'll follow you anywhere when you've got a bucket. The meat from them is good and as Rosemary said they can go straight to slaughter at 6 months off grass. We haven't had a problem with them having poor mothering ability, all ours have been good mums. I hope you love your Ryelands, sure you will soon be smitten. Remember to post some pictures of the new additions  :thumbsup:

 

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