Re: Thanks for the welcome

On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:09:35 +0100, Howard Neil wrote:
Barry wrote:

Well if it all flies...........East Sussex.

I will be more specific If and when I become the owner- you know what buying
and selling is like !!!!
and I was thinking of Southdown as a breed?

Any comments on that?

The only thing I know about that particular breed is that it is local to
Sussex, so that is a good start. What you need to find out is if that
breed has any particular needs and relate those to the place you are
buying (e.g. if it needs housing over winter, will your smallholding
have the necessary facilities). You may also like to find out how easy
they are to lamb. Not all breeds are the same in this respect. You may
have seen a posting from Jill where she says how easy her Jacobs were to
lamb this year. My Llanwenogs are also easy to lamb. I know that some
breeds can be very difficult. A neighbour (a *very* experienced sheep
farmer) tried some Beltex this year. I understand that he had a
nightmare time at lambing.

_Amazingly_ /Wots a Beltex/ ie, where do they come from?. For someone new
to sheep, and with limited acres (Farming? East Sussex?).. Suffolk or
South Down, big placid sheep, beware of Oxford Down, I once shore an
aged ram that must have weighed over 200kg.


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greymaus
Just Another Grumpy Old Man


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