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General sheep thread

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  • #11192
    StoutPost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭StoutPost


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123575453#Comment_123575453

    Shows …. 🤐



  • #11193
    manno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭manno


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123575270#Comment_123575270

    Texels are not the problem, but the ones that are overfed as lambs as Farmer Dan said have very low longjevity. The same is true of any breed that has been over pampered. I gave up buying at show & sales ages ago. Yes you could have some nice lambs but every time you do the herding and the ram is lying down, you're half expecting him to be dead!!



  • #11194
    StoutPost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭StoutPost


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123576625#Comment_123576625

    Texels are a problem, because of the people breeding them. Because of that unless you know, really know the person, it's russian roulette. Anyone reading this forum a while has heard the story of knowing they have texel throat and still breeding from them. I went to a breeder who was beaming he was getting medicines down from the north on the quiet. I wouldn't have a texel or a suffolk on the place again. Yes, they get 10-12 a head more than my NCC lambs, but I know I have less trouble, less work, and more live lambs. Feeding the guts out of stock is one problem, unfortunately it's not the only problem.



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