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Charolais ewe lambs

  • 31-07-2017 11:09pm
    #1
    390kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭


    Have some nicely marked Charolais ewe lambs off my mule ewes. Would it be worth while selling them as breeding stock or just treat them as normal?


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  • #2
    Farmer_3650
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭Farmer_3650


    390kid wrote: »
    Have some nicely marked Charolais ewe lambs off my mule ewes. Would it be worth while selling them as breeding stock or just treat them as normal?

    I'd say sell them off as normal. The Charolais are bad for milk. What sort of a lamb is out of a Charolais x mule? Are they extra wild lambs? I am hoping to buy a few Mules for the first time.


  • #3
    390kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    Farmer_3650 wrote: »
    I'd say sell them off as normal. The Charolais are bad for milk. What sort of a lamb is out of a Charolais x mule? Are they extra wild lambs? I am hoping to buy a few Mules for the first time.

    No there not extra wild. They have nice yellow and brown markings with the mule head. This was my first year with mules great mothers and better fence testers!! Saying that happy enough with them but the lambs need that bit more of a push than them from my other ewes


  • #4
    IH784man
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    Can you post a photo to show what they look like


  • #5
    ganmo
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    Decent ewe lambs can be 20 quid over the price of their mates

    And by decent I mean decent looking buyers don't seem to care too much about the breeding unfortunately


  • #6
    390kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    IH784man wrote: »
    Can you post a photo to show what they look like

    I can but how do you up load the photos to this


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  • #7
    390kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    That's the shape a dem der pictures aren't great


  • #8
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    If yiy sell in the mart I'd be inclined to sell them separate to ram lambs and let the buyer decide what to do but I wouldn't be inclined to mix ram and ewe lambs anyway regardless of how they look.

    Them type of lambs are probably heading for the butchers block but if a farmer liked them for breeding stock you might get a bit more


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