How Romney ram could solve labour issues for flock

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A free ram has given a farmer confidence to pursue breeding a ‘Stabiliser of sheep’ as she tries to cut inputs and labour needs. Michael Priestley reports.A young farmer's mission to breed low-input stock so she can manage 500 ewes and 80 cows by herself has been kick-started by a generous freebie.Carmarthenshire beef and sheep farmer Carys Jones won a free Romney ram from the Kaiapoi flock last year and is impressed by the results so far. She hopes the sheep system can emulate the farm's suckler enterprise, which switched dairy-cross continental cows to Stabiliser genetics in 2015.