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Disadvantages of mules

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  • #32
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Jonny303 wrote: »
    Well bought the first of my Cheviot hoggets today.

    €200 a pop.

    All I'll say is they're not suffolks.....shoulders pulled out of their sockets just trying to sort them!

    I hope the suffs don't learn their bad habits


  • #33
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Jonny303 wrote: »
    Well bought the first of my Cheviot hoggets today.

    €200 a pop.

    All I'll say is they're not suffolks.....shoulders pulled out of their sockets just trying to sort them!

    Best if luck with em...

    You should have very nice lambs from em... But they do seem to be very different to the suffolks all right :)


  • #34
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    ganmo wrote: »
    The last time there was a multiple breed comparison in Ireland (20 odd years ago) every cheviot had twins.

    But multiples isn't seen as very benifical in the eyes of the breeders

    Yes but now a days the cheviot has become inbred and pampered and does not go to the hill any more, just cross the Wicklow gap, Sally gap and glenmalure and you will see no ewe on the hill any more,
    The cheviot is no longer a hill breed and with only 27 breeders is a closed shop and all buying from one and other.


  • #35
    ganmo
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    Inbreeding or line breeding ? Every breed is inbreeding of some degree

    They let in a new flock 5 or 10 years back and it was a big deal.

    One of the easiest way to spot sheep from the hills is a greyness colour to the wool on the neck from rubbing against burnt bushes


  • #36
    stantheman1979
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    Sheep breeder wrote: »
    Yes but now a days the cheviot has become inbred and pampered and does not go to the hill any more, just cross the Wicklow gap, Sally gap and glenmalure and you will see no ewe on the hill any more,
    The cheviot is no longer a hill breed and with only 27 breeders is a closed shop and all buying from one and other.

    +1 On that. Never a sheep on top of glenmalure. Same few breeders so no new blood. I happened to be in one of the main breeders yard(Kiltegan area) just before a show and here was another breeder picking through his hoggs to bring to the show himself!! How can the breed develop when that is going on.:)


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  • #37
    stantheman1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭stantheman1979


    Jonny303 wrote: »
    Well bought the first of my Cheviot hoggets today.

    €200 a pop.

    All I'll say is they're not suffolks.....shoulders pulled out of their sockets just trying to sort them!

    Expensive mistake ill say but best of luck with them


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