Ideal ram for Suffolk x mule ewes

stantheman1979 · 03-10-2016 06:05PM

A Suffolk on a Suffolk X mule would be 3/4 suffolk. Too much for my liking

Lanark · 03-10-2016 06:49PM

stantheman1979 wrote: »

A Suffolk on a Suffolk X mule would be 3/4 suffolk. Too much for my liking

What about a 50/50 Suffolk x texel ram?

J.O. Farmer · 03-10-2016 07:36PM

Lanark wrote: »

What about a 50/50 Suffolk x texel ram?

He'd probably be a good sheep himself but I wouldn't be sure of what he'd breed. You'd want to be getting a ram who was genuinely 50/50 and not 37.5/37.5/12.5/6.25/6.25.

charolais0153 · 03-10-2016 10:16PM

Lanark wrote: »

What about a 50/50 Suffolk x texel ram?

Don't see the benefit. And I can't imagine the heads would be too clean either.

Dickie10 · 06-12-2017 09:41PM

has anyone ever bred blue leicster onto lleyn ewes? i breed lleyn ewe replacemenst and find their lambs start to get smaller becuase ewes are smaller. id like to bring more size into the ewe what would a lleyn mule be like?

Dickie10 · 06-12-2017 09:45PM

there was a lad breeedinf lleyns from his suffolk mules and keeping replacements, he called them composite sheep

Suffolk crossed with blue leicster and their daughter suffolk mule crossed with lleyn

THE EWES WERE THEN: 1/4 suffolk 1/4 blue liescter 1/2 lleyn

Green farmer · 06-12-2017 10:11PM

Are you just using the wrong type of Lleyn ? I'm putting a wedge type one across my Lleyn x ewes, I'll let ye know how it turns out as my Lleyn x's were getting too small. Would a blue make them too soft ? Look why people are Moving from mules to Lleyns in the first place ? Wonder what one cross back to the Suffolk would bring ? Wranlger crosses them back to the texel when they go to far.

Green farmer · 06-12-2017 10:33PM

Here's the wedge shaped one (for a Lleyn anyway) I got this summer. Hoping he'll give me a slightly bigger lamb.

wrangler · 07-12-2017 12:13PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Are you just using the wrong type of Lleyn ? I'm putting a wedge type one across my Lleyn x ewes, I'll let ye know how it turns out as my Lleyn x's were getting too small. Would a blue make them too soft ? Look why people are Moving from mules to Lleyns in the first place ? Wonder what one cross back to the Suffolk would bring ? Wranlger crosses them back to the texel when they go to far.

We've never got nice lleyns out of suffolks, we had few suffolks when we started using Lleyn and they didn't suit. Be interesting to see what you think if you've any black sheep
You've a nice ram in the picture, hope he does the job, nice wool

Green farmer · 07-12-2017 01:37PM

wrangler wrote: »

We've never got nice lleyns out of suffolks, we had few suffolks when we started using Lleyn and they didn't suit. Be interesting to see what you think if you've any black sheep
You've a nice ram in the picture, hope he does the job, nice wool

Thanks, I've been trying to figure out the different types of lleyns and thought he was the way to continue them on, so fingers crossed he gives me nice lambs next spring. They'll will be 75% Lleyn, so might be looking to what to cross back to after that.

Dickie10 · 08-12-2017 08:37PM

just throwing this out their but what would a cheviot ram do on 75% lleyn id imagine add good bit of size

Dickie10 · 08-12-2017 08:38PM

i put my lleyns on cheviot ewes and the resulting lambs looked great

Ideal ram for Suffolk x mule ewes

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