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border leicester

  • 15-09-2011 8:30pm
    #1
    yog1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭


    right i'm think i'm going to go with the border leicester,
    few question's,
    • what age is the ram able to breed
    • are they good workers, (how many sheep will 1 ram cover)
    • are they a birthy sheep, how many lambs would they have
    • am i wise at all,


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  • #2
    yog1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭yog1


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056383586

    might make more sense if you read this first:o


  • #3
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Cran


    Hi yog my knowledge of Border Leicesters is with their crossesm rather than having the rams myself, but here goes.
    Crosses are prolific and excellent mothers,
    believe they can work from 7/8 months as any other breed,
    not the most energetic sheep so would say 30/40 max for hogget and less for a lamb.
    yes they are prolific research shows 1.8 lambs per cross breed ewe
    Are you wise? no harm in experimenting but I would try Blue faced Leicester rather than Border Leicester tighter wooled and I find the crosses better.

    Need to keep an eye on the ram as pure they are awfully soft sheep with a tendency to fall apart quickly. This is not as apparant in the cross breeds.


  • #4
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Cran wrote: »
    Need to keep an eye on the ram as pure they are awfully soft sheep with a tendency to fall apart quickly. This is not as apparant in the cross breeds.

    Yep, we had them years ago. Found the lambs a bit slow to get up as well. Which doesn't help if the weather is bad.


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