Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Hiltex sheep

  • 22-12-2013 04:44PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭


    Anyone know about this breed what are they like ??


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    135man wrote: »
    Anyone know about this breed what are they like ??

    I have ten of them and I find them impressive enough. They are big strong sheep, plenty of milk and rear a decent lamb. I have been putting them to a blackface ram the last couple of years (coz that's all I had!!) and their offspring will outgrow any of the pure scotch I have. So this year I bit the bullet and bought two texel rams and will be hoping to keep the resultant ewe lambs as replacements and build up a decent flock of hiltex. I would be interested to know what rams lads use on the hiltex ewe as I intend to put them back with the texels for the next couple of seasons anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 580 ✭✭✭HillFarmer


    foxylock wrote: »
    I have ten of them and I find them impressive enough. They are big strong sheep, plenty of milk and rear a decent lamb. I have been putting them to a blackface ram the last couple of years (coz that's all I had!!) and their offspring will outgrow any of the pure scotch I have. So this year I bit the bullet and bought two texel rams and will be hoping to keep the resultant ewe lambs as replacements and build up a decent flock of hiltex. I would be interested to know what rams lads use on the hiltex ewe as I intend to put them back with the texels for the next couple of seasons anyway.


    What's their hardiness like?

    Do you leave them out on the hill in winter?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    HillFarmer wrote: »
    What's their hardiness like?

    Do you leave them out on the hill in winter?

    They are tough ladies but wouldn't compete with the likes of a swaledale or a scottish blackface. I have them on rough grazing at the moment and am giving them a bit of hay, they'll get nothing else until a few weeks before lambing, unless the conditions become atrocious altogether.


Advertisement