organic sheep from lambing to shearing
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Our Experience with Rare BreedSheep
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Romney Sheep
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Our Flock
• Selected for fleece quality for over 25 years
• Great mothering insCnct– Group lambing
– No lamb rejecCon
– ProtecCve• Weak flockers
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ProducCon
• May – November RotaConal grazing– Never on the same piece of pasture twice in thesame year
– Never wintered on the same piece of pasture inconsecuCve years
• Winter– Baleage rolled out
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Profit Centres
• Meat• Wool– Raw Fleece
• Hand spinners– Washed locks (& dyed)
• Felters and fibre arCsts– Roving– Yarn
• Natural• Hand Painted
• Skins
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Lessons Learned So Far
• Lambing in February beats May– Higher ferClity– Twinning % went from 10% to almost 50%– BeXer lamb growth• Parasite loading is nill iniCally
• Wet hay beats dry– Sheep will eat the whole plant– SubstanCal reducCon in vegetable maXer in thefleece
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Lessons Learned con’t
• Flystrike– Shear in late May
– Is possible in a wet August• Set up proper handling faciliCes– Slight modificaCon to our caXle handling workswell
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QUESTIONS?
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