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Ram lamb for breeding

  • 21-09-2019 06:07PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭


    What age or weight would a Suffolk ran want to be to be suitable for breeding?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    DJ98 wrote: »
    What age or weight would a Suffolk ran want to be to be suitable for breeding?

    They'll breed from about 6 months old, DJ, but their size and stamina will count against them. I'd like them over 60kgs anyway so they would be able to cover a good few ewes at that size.

    I wouldn't like going over 30 ewes with a ram lamb if you wanted some bit of compact lambing and less again the smaller and younger they are.


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