Breeding Mule sheep

Username John

Cran wrote: »

Wonder was that me, had he a wavy head of hair

I'll post a pic of couple of Lleyn cross mule lambs for ya

ha ha - be careful what you say Cran... you never know when it'll pop up on t'inter-web

Prop Joe

Yeah, Was looking for something different for a hill...Something that is easy lamb perferably

Chak

Cran wrote: »

Wonder was that me, had he a wavy head of hair

I'll post a pic of couple of Lleyn cross mule lambs for ya

No 'twas an old fella out in a trailer selling rams. Few pictures would be great thanks. Bought hoggets too I'll run a Suffolk with them alright I'd say, would leave nice replacents.

whitetail

I have always let the Suffolks with hoggets no more than problems than main flock best ewe lambs are very much sought after hope this helps.

farm14

Crazy money for hoggets you'd wonder would you make money at all giving €160+ for them again you add up annual maintenance costs?

farm14

Hard to beat breeding your own replacements

razor8

A few of my own replacements home bred, sheared and vaccinated yesterday

Username John

razor8 wrote: »

A few of my own replacements home bred, sheared and vaccinated yesterday

I see you had the help as well...

razor8

Username John wrote: »

I see you had the help as well...

Half the gang were helping out!!

greysides

razor8 wrote: »

A few of my own replacements home bred, sheared and vaccinated yesterday

Great to see sheep with clean arses.

ronancuffe

hello this year ive went away from breeding the Mayo Mule and tried putting a border leicester Ram to my suffolk ewes heard there supposed to be an unreal sheep better than the Mayo Mule, has anyone tried these or any info on them .thanks

whitetail

Hi we cross border Leicester with Suffolks great lambs easy to finish and good replacements no trouble much at lambing hope it helps

AnFeirmeoir

Cran wrote: »

Was there yesterday, bought those pens at 150 & 152 if that's correct. I think the hoggets and lambs tbh were the best standard I ve seen at the sale which might have added to prices. Lambs very good trade, but good quality available between 110 to 140

How did these work out for you Cran?
I'm thinking of going to balinrobe this year, but i cant see myself paying over €160 for a hogget.
I bought 6 mules hoggets for €125 in a local mart 2 years ago and i've had 22 lambs from them in 2 years going by my records (no triplets)
So would like to buy another pen of mules. Might see some at the mart again before the balinrobe sale.

Cran

AnFeirmeoir wrote: »

How did these work out for you Cran?
I'm thinking of going to balinrobe this year, but i cant see myself paying over €160 for a hogget.
I bought 6 mules hoggets for €125 in a local mart 2 years ago and i've had 22 lambs from them in 2 years going by my records (no triplets)
So would like to buy another pen of mules. Might see some at the mart again before the balinrobe sale.

Grand same as other years, hard to track individual bought pens here when enter out into the flock but overall good as always. Very happy with the ewe lambs and hopefully buy from same breeder this year if can...
I'd say under 160 will be a tough one this year for hoggets, ewe lambs are a good trade so will feed into the hoggets I think

DJ98

Where is the best place to buy mules?