[Porterlauren]

We do have a pet lamb here, she makes me smile! But to have a whole flock of her. . . . would make me cry lol.

I like to keep replacements out of twins that have been born outside, unassisted to good mothers and have grown on well on milk and grass a lone.

I also totally understand LG's frustration with trying to dog a flock that has pet lambs in it.

At the end of the day though, it's horses for courses, and if we were all the same, the world would be very boring!

[waterbuffalofarmer]

I know, but he has the breed figures, everything is catalogued and cross checked, I looked at his dam and sires records and they were excellent. This guy breeds for confirmation, every lamb is weighed at birth and throughout its life. I paid quite a lot of money for him, I just hope he produces good lambs.

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Totally agree, I've had a problem with pets not being in the flock. What I do is try and get all the sheep in and then bring the pets in, or I just get a bag of cake and then its a piece of cake.

[Me]

I respect your choice to buy in 20 triplet orphans but it seems totally at odds with paying a lot of money for a tup with good figures, if all mine had triplets it would be a disaster and in very general terms with sheep you get what you keep, keep a lot of orphans - get a lot of orphans?

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Yea I suppose so it was just a thought though, I may not buy them, it was just an easy option for buying in more stock. I really don't mind rearing lambs, we usually get very little amounts of triplets anyway and a lot of the rams I've bought over the years are out of triplets. I don't flush the ewes with extra feed as I find lleyns give a lot of lambs anyway. I haven't decided yet. Thanks for all the comments guys.