Are easycare sheep any good?
“Easycare mothers have an excellent supply of milk with most able to rear twin and triplet lambs without difficulty. In a normal year we will have lambs ready for market at around 19.5 kilos carcass weight by the end of August.
What is easycare sheep?
The EasyCareTM Sheep is a revolutionary breed of sheep which requires minimal shepherding and veterinary care, sheds its fleece in the summer, does not need shearing and yet offers excellent meat yields and lambing ratios. The fleece is kempy, leaving a dense hair covered in lanolin.
What are the five types of sheep production systems?
The STAR© system (five lamb crops in three years) There are five lambing periods each year. Three groups of sheep are managed separately: 1) breeding and pregnant ewes and rams; 2) lambing and lactating ewes and lambs; and 3) growing lambs (market lambs and replacements).
Do Dorper sheep have to be sheared?
Minimal Shearing Needs Because Dorper sheep have a combination of hair and wool, it is not difficult to care for this breed. You can shear them if you’d like, but if you would prefer not to, the hair and wool will merely shed themselves at the end of each spring.
What is the easiest sheep to lamb?
With a Dorset or Dorset based flock you should get easy lambers that are good with their lambs. Our flock is mainly Dorset and Polypay based. Both these breeds are wonderful sheep to work with and are reliable producers of nice, well grown lambs for market.
How are easycare sheep bred?
Easycare is a breed of sheep developed in the 1960s in the United Kingdom for meat. It was originally bred by Iolo Owen in Angelsey by crossing Nelson Welsh Mountain sheep (a Welsh Mountain and Cheviot cross) which were crossed twice to the Wiltshire Horn, which is a wool-shedding breed.
What are sheep management systems?
2.2 Sheep management systems They are two major sheep farming management systems that are used throughout the world for sheep production, namely extensive production for wool and meat, and traditional pastoralism (Kilgour et al., 2008).
What are the sheep production systems?
There are three major management systems for sheep production that exist in the world, namely extensive production for wool and meat, intensive dairy production and traditional pastoralism. The main risk to traditional pastoralism systems is the unpredictability of the climate.
What kind of sheep does Easycare sheep have?
The EasyCareTM Sheep is a revolutionary breed of sheep which requires minimal shepherding and veterinary care, sheds its fleece in the summer, does not need shearing and yet offers excellent meat yields and lambing ratios. The fleece is kempy, leaving a dense hair covered in lanolin.
What are the labour saving points of easy care sheep?
The main labour saving points with the easy care sheep are: No shearing is required, We have no fly strike, so we never have to dip our sheep. We have virtually zero foot problems, so foot paring is minimal. Because we lamb outdoors we do not have to clean, bed and dissinfect sheds, or constantly move sheep and lambs into and out of lambing pens.
Do you need to shorn an easy care sheep?
They require minimum shepherding, and shed their wool naturally and so do not need to be shorn. Easycares remain hardy and require and fewer inputs than other breeds.
Where do Easycare sheep society go for AGM?
The Society has Society Sales in various regions of the UK. We also have the Annual AGM and Open Day at a different EasyCareTM breeder’s farm each year. The farm visits are viewed as an excellent way to meet new friends and network. We also attend National Sheep Association Events throughout the summer months.