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Mayo mountains in Leinster

  • 06-08-2015 2:45pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭


    Anyone around Wexford/Carlow/Kilkenny/Wicklow/Waterford keep mayo mountain ewes and are they hard to keep! I fell in love with these after a trip to mayo and looking at them all over the place.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    Not from that area but have kept them all my life. They aren't hard to keep, quite easy in fact. They are hardy, don't get as many foot problems and last a long time. A good one will have teeth until she is 10 and last another 3-4 with a small bit of TLC, lambing every year. They do well when moved to areas with better quality ground also - so just about anywhere.

    Actually, for anyone who would use a vasectomised ram, these lads are tailor made for the job. They last for years, rarely get sick or lame, eat relatively little, and come tipping season their virility is off the charts. They chase everything that moves and a hurricane wouldn't put them off the job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    And they take for ever to get a lamb fit for the factory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    Why would you be running them to mayo rams if you are looking to fatten them and send them to the factory? That is like putting Suffolks up the mountains and complaining when they are all dying.
    The hilltex lamb is a fine lamb, and the mayo mule are hugely popular.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    Oddly I find them the most prone to looking for the great golden highway to beyond when kept with a lowland flock on heavy land. Horses for courses...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 northdub14


    I keep about 100 of them in north leinster area, put Suffolk and texel rams with them. keep most of the ewe lambs off them for replacements and finish the rams, get most of them into good weights. the mayo ewe as said above very easy kept.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭DJ98


    Would they be any good with a belclare ram


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    DJ98 wrote: »
    Would they be any good with a belclare ram

    Yes you would have perfect coat hangers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭DJ98


    Willfarman wrote: »
    Yes you would have perfect coat hangers!

    What u mean by coat hangers?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    DJ98 wrote: »
    What u mean by coat hangers?

    A derogatory term used in these parts to describe poor quality horned sheep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭DJ98


    Willfarman wrote: »
    A derogatory term used in these parts to describe poor quality horned sheep.
    Texel ram I guess then! :-)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Willfarman wrote: »
    Yes you would have perfect coat hangers!

    Must remember that!


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