Clun Forest Sheep

brownswiss

Have any of you any thoughts on or experience of this breed? http://www.clunforestsheep.org.uk/. A guy in Mayo mentioned that he has the breed and until then I had not heard about them

Inchilad

brownswiss wrote:

Have any of you any thoughts on or experience of this breed?

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Green farmer

Inchilad wrote: »

See some on deal for sale

A lad I knew had a batch of them. He was saying something about them being suited to orchards. That they don't eat the bark off trees like other sheep or something. think he really liked them, but were scarce to get. Cannt really remember much more of what he said as a few years ago. Same lad now runs llyens.

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

A lad I knew had a batch of them. He was saying something about them being suited to orchards. That they don't eat the bark off trees like other sheep or something. think he really liked them, but were scarce to get. Cannt really remember much more of what he said as a few years ago. Same lad now runs llyens.

I think it's shropshire sheep they use in Orchards

http://www.shropshire-sheep.co.uk/sheepintrees.html

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

I think it's shropshire sheep they use in Orchards

http://www.shropshire-sheep.co.uk/sheepintrees.html

A fair enough. It was definitely the clun forest he had, because I had never heard the name before that, but the fact he told me about them must have been wrong.

waalaa

I remember talking to a guy from the North who ran a clun forest ram with his ewe lambs. He said the lambs were tiny but easy lambed.

Future Farmer

My great grand uncle had a flock of them in the 1960s.

Father still talks about them, lovely maternal ewes by all accounts.

I haven't any experience with them personally but maybe some day!