swop

stew · Post by **stew** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:17 am

im after a swap a red 14 month heifer for a few sheeps ewe and lambs + unrelated ram any offers will be considered , also im after a few laying hens a hundred or so swap another heifer same sort of age 07771613600

stew · Post by **stew** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:23 am

im near tadcaster yorkshire

balliemore · Post by **balliemore** » Tue May 25, 2010 9:50 am

Have you made your swap yet? If you are still considering different breeds give a thought to Lleyn's. A very hardy welsh breed with great milklyness and mothering. We have had them for 8 years and have a pure flock and cross with Blackface. Even with the bad winter we just had they still managed to have a good crop of lambs. This is an island hill farm with very poor ground so they need to be hardy.

sue

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Tue May 25, 2010 12:46 pm

balliemore wrote:Have you made your swap yet? If you are still considering different breeds give a thought to Lleyn's. A very hardy welsh breed with great milklyness and mothering. We have had them for 8 years and have a pure flock and cross with Blackface. Even with the bad winter we just had they still managed to have a good crop of lambs. This is an island hill farm with very poor ground so they need to be hardy.

sue

I'll second that. Got 350 Lleyn ewes and they are very easy, motherly and if you get the right strain, very calm and easy-going. Ours don't seem to get dirty either hardly at all and when they do they're easy to dag because of the wool/hair mix. Only trouble with the swap idea in this case would be that you would pay more for a reasonable ram than you might get for a 14 month old heifer, and the breeding sheep wouldn't be cheap at the moment either!

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