Breeding Partners
Our breeding partners farm different systems across the UK to ensure that we can offer you a ram that will suit your system.
Two of our breeding partners who have very different systems is Thomas Hartley and Sam Edwards and you can hear more about their systems here: https://youtu.be/p5XL9uiLCoY
Matt Harding and Will Oliver - Working together
What does a successful relationship between an arable farmer and sheep farmer look like? Matt Harding and Will Oliver joined us as part of our winter webinars to talk about how they work together.
Watch the webinar again here: https://youtu.be/IubKIhia8_Y
❗🐑400 Aberfield x Talybont In-Lamb Ewes for sale in Corwen, North Wales 🐑❗
A customer in Corwen is selling around 400 of his Aberfield x Talybont ewes due to change in farming system. They are in-lamb to an Aberfield / NZ Suffolk Rams, scanned at 160% and are due to start lambing 25th March. The ewes vary in ages from two tooth last year onwards.
View the full listing here:
📲 https://www.innovis.org.uk/.../aberfieldcrosstalybont/
Becky Willson - Getting to grips with Carbon
Becky Willson from @farmcarbontoolkit is very passionate about Carbon and she joined us last month as part of our winter webinars.
Want to hear what Becky had to say about carbon? Watch the webinar again here: https://youtu.be/v083heSB6is
❗🐑 In-lamb breeding ewes for sale at Blackmoor Gate Market (Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions Ltd. )
All are in-lamb to Aberfield and have scanned aprox. 175% - lambing 2nd April.
This is a genuine flock dispersal due to ill health.
Multiple scanned ewes onto crops
Twin scanned ewes onto swedes and triplets onto the best quality silage at Southfield. Singles and the few lates back up to the hill block to enjoy the view. All crops measured and silage analysed; working to a detailed feed budget, matching stock requirements to the feed available is essential. Measure to manage 👍
🐑Nucleus ewes pregnancy scanned at Southfield this week. 🐑
Lots of lambs with an overall result of 191% with only 23 empty ewes from 1,063 scanned. Good results across the breed lines bar one Abertex group running with imported rams (jet lag!).
It’s going to be a busy three weeks in April with 1000 ewes holding to first cycle.
This is a strong result for an upland farm running a forage based system, so a big focus on ewe nutrition over the next two months.
Fit healthy nucleus ewes
Sweeper rams taken out at our nucleus flock and the ewes back up to the hill ground, looking fit and healthy on forage. Silage out in preparation for poorer weather.
Ewes move onto deferred grazing
Nucleus ewes mobbed up after 21 days in their tupping groups. Onto deferred grazing with raddled sweeper rams. All of the hill ground sub-divided with electric fences for block grazing with silage until early February. Ewes looking well.
Breeding Partner Meeting
We were delighted to host our Breeding Partners in the Borders earlier this week. Good discussion about innovation and forward planning.
Snow day in Hawick
Snow Day on the fourth day of tupping at Southfield.
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