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Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Young tups
« on: September 02, 2016, 03:20:02 pm »
I've got 3 shearling Swaledale tups.  They were lambs that missed banding.  I'm contemplating sending them off for meat, but do you think it'll be too tainted?

I'd prefer them to go on to work for someone, but although one at least has a magnificent wide set of horns, none of them are very special. 

TBH I really don't know what to do with them!

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Young tups
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2016, 03:27:00 pm »
Advertise on a board at the gate?  Someone may need a tup in a hurry if theirs keels over.  How about the cull pen at the livestock market?

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Young tups
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2016, 03:27:23 pm »
They'll taste fabulous if you send them off now, or in spring. 

Sadly, it's not hard to buy really good Crowned Swaley tups for not a lot of money, so the likelihood of finding them working homes are remote.  Well, zero.  Sorry.
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

 

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