{"id":977,"date":"2013-07-28T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bearwoodfarm.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-07-28T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:33:14","slug":"hay-making-ram-ewe-sales-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Hay Making & Ram & Ewe Sales Under Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearwood Lleyn Ram Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a difference a couple of months make. Back in May we had no grass and all the animals were in need of warm temperatures and sun. How they have all altered since the heatwave during July. The grass has grown and all animals are blooming.<\/p>\n

Hay and good quality haylage has been made and stored to be fed this coming winter and lambs weaned from the ewes. Lambs ready to go for meat were sold through Hereford market and replacement ewe and ram lambs have been sorted.<\/p>\n

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Bearwood Blue Texel Ram Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July has been a busy month showing prospective purchasers round the Bearwood flock. More buyers are coming to the farm to buy their replacements; they like to see the sheep in their “working clothes” and look at the farming system to make sure it will compliment their system.<\/p>\n

The upshot of this is that 16 yearling rams have already been sold and 100 ewe lambs reserved to go to a couple of breeders. Semen from Bearwood Trooper has also been purchased by a breeder that had used Trooper’s semen last year.<\/p>\n

I also have visited a couple of flocks\u00a0 to view<\/p>\n

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Bearwood Lleyn Ewe Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

rams as I require 2 Lleyn stock rams this year. Registered Lleyn rams with good performance figures and the right bloodlines are difficult to find but I hope\u00a0 to have both rams purchased within the next couple of weeks. I prefer to buy off the farm for the reasons mentioned above.<\/p>\n

I hope to also purchase a few more Blue Texel ewes and a Blue Texel ram so my shopping spree has not finished yet! More details of my purchases will follow when the sales have been concluded.<\/p>\n

The sale season is fast approaching. I\u00a0 hope to go to Ross on Wye with ewe lambs in September and Welshpool in October. I am attending fewer sales this year due to the number of sheep I have sold off the farm.<\/p>\n

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Bearwood Blue Texel Ewe Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have purchase a new weigh crate designed by Martin Tompkins of Border Software<\/a> and a True Test reader which reads the animals EID and records it’s weight. I am weighing more often now to get a better idea of live weight gain of lambs and mature weight of ewes. It is also useful to see which ewe is producing her own body weight in lamb meat when we weigh ewes and lambs at weaning.<\/p>\n

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What a difference a couple of months make. Back in May we had no grass and all the animals were in need of warm temperatures and sun. How they have all altered since the heatwave during July. The grass has grown and all animals are blooming. Hay and good quality haylage has been made and … Continue reading “Hay Making & Ram & Ewe Sales Under Way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,16,17,14,18,19,26,25,5,22,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-texel-rams","category-breeding","category-blue-texel","category-lleyn","category-general","category-blue-texel-general","category-lleyn-general","category-grassland-management","category-lleyn-rams","category-performance-recording","category-blue-texel-performance-recording","category-lleyn-performance-recording","category-rams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}