Eight week weight Update

The early lamb crop have just been performance recorded for the eight week weight. We have a new flock record weight at 37kg for a ram lamb by our main stock ram Logie Durno J.R out of a Trevadlock ewe. The heaviest ewe lamb weighed 31kg a lamb by Mortimer Jumbo out of a Southam ewe. What was most pleasing was the high number of lambs around the 30kg mark. Also, this years lambs have made a significantly improved weight gain on last year.

Further Updates to follow.

Lambing time at Bronwydd

The first round of lambing has just been finished. There are two lambs on the ground for each ewe that has lambed. In the 2012 crop there are lambs by some notable rams within the breed including Edstaston Jigsaw, Arjane Klansman and Mortimer Jumbo. There are also a large number of lambs by our own stock ram Logie Durno J.R. What is most pleasing is that each tup appears to have sired something with a little promise.

Here are some pictures of the the ewes and lambs out at grass on January 7th 2012.

Above; Ewes with Lambs Above; Home bred ewe with twin J.R lambs at foot

Above; Ewes with lambs Above; Glyncoch ewe with J.R ewe lamb at foot

Above; J.R shearling ewe with Jigsaw ram lamb at foot Above; Jigsaw ewe lamb

Above; Harriet our Logie Durno purchase with her Jigsaw ram lamb.

Stock Ram Prize

Logie Durno J.R once again this year gained second prize in the stock ram competition in the 2011 Welsh Region Flock competition. This makes it three years in a row for him gaining a prize in this competition. Proving what an excellent ram he is.

Worcester Sausy Sale Purchase.

At this years Worcester Sausy Sale I purchased two senior ewes from the Logie Durno Flock. The first, a massive 4 year old ewe now named 'Harriet' (pictured below), sired by Connorstown Foxy, a well fleshed ewe she is in lamb to Edstastson Jigsaw. The second, a 3 year old ewe by Crogham Hannibal that handles tremendously well, she was scanned to lamb later to last years Premier sale top priced lamb Arjane Klansman. Hopefully both ewes will be useful additions to the flock.

Builth Wells Main Sale Report.

The Builth sale proved to be very successful for the flock despite being the last six lots for the sale. I managed to sell four out of the six lambs to average £488.25. The highlight of the sale proved to be the sale of lot number 5175. This lamb (11WAJ00045) had come 5th in the pre-sale show on the Sunday afternoon and went on the sell for 600gns. Sired by Logie Durno J.R out of one of our most consistent breeding ewes and full brother to our top selling lamb last year. He was purchased by Mrs Celia Parish for her Pedigree Mountstephan Flock in the South west Region. I wish her all the best with her purchase. Another lamb of note 11WAJ00034 was a son of Arjane Kingdom out of an Elmwick dam, he made 510gns.