Best Duel Purpose breed

[purplequeenvt]

Honestly, if you are looking for a true dual purpose sheep, something like a Romney or Border Leicester is your best option. They are both wool sheep that grow out a large lamb quickly. Jacobs are a small primitive breed and you won't get the same amount of meat. Suffolks are HUGE sheep, I don't have any experience with their wool because I only see them all carded out for show. They are considered a meat breed so there isn't any emphasis put on wool quality. Suffolks take a lot more feed to get them to slaughter weight.

Suffolk yearling ram (I am at his head and I'm 5'7")

Border Leicester ewe lamb

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Honestly, if you are looking for a true dual purpose sheep, something like a Romney or Border Leicester is your best option. They are both wool sheep that grow out a large lamb quickly. Jacobs are a small primitive breed and you won't get the same amount of meat. Suffolks are HUGE sheep, I don't have any experience with their wool because I only see them all carded out for show. They are considered a meat breed so there isn't any emphasis put on wool quality. Suffolks take a lot more feed to get them to slaughter weight.

Suffolk yearling ram (I am at his head and I'm 5'7")
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8266385359_f325276ae1.jpg

Border Leicester ewe lamb
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8208/8180359163_dfc9c06dbd.jpg

Ugh...So many choices X_X
Though I think I am going to stick with getting one Jacobs sheep ewe, then a Romney ewe and ram. That way I have my wool and fancy sheep, and Adam can have his meat sheep. *And I get some more wool hehe*
Just now have to figure out what were doing for the ram Hmm...

 

[BrownSheep]

Here I am still pulling for my guys
The Rambouillet is the "backbone" of the American Sheep Industry, forming the foundation of most western range flocks and raised throughout the United States. The Rambouillet descends entirely from the Spanish Merino. In fact, it is the French version of the Merino developed when Louis XVI imported 386 Spanish Merinos in 1786 for his estate at Rambouillet.

Though named for the town in France, the breed owes much of its development to Germany and the United States. The Rambouillet is a dual purpose sheep, producing a desirable carcass and good fine wool. Rambouillets are large sized, rugged and long-lived with a strong flocking instinct. Rambouillet ewes possess many desirable traits which have resulted in their inclusion in crossbreeding programs to improve lamb production.

Breed category: fine wool, dual-purpose
Ramboulliet in the back Dorset in the front

Dorsets are best known for their ability to produce a lamb crop any time during the year. History tells us that centuries ago when Spain wished to conquer England, Merino sheep were brought into southwest England and crossed with the Horned Sheep of Wales. The result was a desirable, all-purpose sheep that spread over Dorset, Somerset, Devon and most of Wales.

The first Horned Dorsets were brought to the United States in 1885. In 1948, a dominant gene for polledness occurred resulting in Polled Dorsets which are now popular in the farm flock states. Dorset ewes are prolific, heavy milkers that produce lambs with moderate growth and maturity that yield heavy muscled carcasses.

Breed categories: medium wool, meat

 

[Southern by choice]

Oh the soffolk...huge
the dorset ..very cool.

I would love to have the huge suffolk, but alas...not the room

It would be great to have enough land where I could collect one of each..

and I don't even have my first sheep yet! The lil guy I'm getting was stunted, that is why I'm getting him, just a pet and play with the wool. The ewe my DD is getting is also just for a pet, and to play with the wool. She is not stunted so I don't know how big she will end up. So many cool breeds, if I were looking for wool or meat for more of a production and I had the land I'm sure my choices would be different, but I'd still want a jacob.

picking goat breeds is easy compared to sheep

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Here I am still pulling for my guys
The Rambouillet is the "backbone" of the American Sheep Industry, forming the foundation of most western range flocks and raised throughout the United States. The Rambouillet descends entirely from the Spanish Merino. In fact, it is the French version of the Merino developed when Louis XVI imported 386 Spanish Merinos in 1786 for his estate at Rambouillet.

Though named for the town in France, the breed owes much of its development to Germany and the United States. The Rambouillet is a dual purpose sheep, producing a desirable carcass and good fine wool. Rambouillets are large sized, rugged and long-lived with a strong flocking instinct. Rambouillet ewes possess many desirable traits which have resulted in their inclusion in crossbreeding programs to improve lamb production.

Breed category: fine wool, dual-purpose
Ramboulliet in the back Dorset in the front
http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums...571dc675754b5724a93a9e1bfab83_zps1117c091.jpg

Dorsets are best known for their ability to produce a lamb crop any time during the year. History tells us that centuries ago when Spain wished to conquer England, Merino sheep were brought into southwest England and crossed with the Horned Sheep of Wales. The result was a desirable, all-purpose sheep that spread over Dorset, Somerset, Devon and most of Wales.

The first Horned Dorsets were brought to the United States in 1885. In 1948, a dominant gene for polledness occurred resulting in Polled Dorsets which are now popular in the farm flock states. Dorset ewes are prolific, heavy milkers that produce lambs with moderate growth and maturity that yield heavy muscled carcasses.

Breed categories: medium wool, meat

Ah blast...
Why must there be so many good breeds!! Ugh...
Well, I will look them up. If they are smaller then the Romneys then I might be interested in them. Who knows, I very well might fall for your breed! ...There are to many sheep breeds T_T

 

[BrownSheep]

Haha I feel for you. I'm asking for some Finns for Christmas. Im also curious how they would look cross with a nice 4 horned Jacob.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Oh the soffolk...huge
the dorset ..very cool.

I would love to have the huge suffolk, but alas...not the room

It would be great to have enough land where I could collect one of each..

and I don't even have my first sheep yet! The lil guy I'm getting was stunted, that is why I'm getting him, just a pet and play with the wool. The ewe my DD is getting is also just for a pet, and to play with the wool. She is not stunted so I don't know how big she will end up. So many cool breeds, if I were looking for wool or meat for more of a production and I had the land I'm sure my choices would be different, but I'd still want a jacob.

picking goat breeds is easy compared to sheep

Thankfully I have the acres for a big sheep, but I keep chnaging my mind!! I really like the looks and sounds of the Romneys though...Time shall tell if the Romneys or the Rambouillet's will win.

 

[Royd Wood]

So it looks like pistols at dawn between you and me brownsheep might bring my rake

 

[bonbean01]

 

[Southern by choice]