muleman
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It was hot for 6 weeks.....in march and April.
I remember having a bottle of pop on the front rack of bike and keeping having to refill it!
Havnt supped much pop this time yet!
Lambing losses.
- Thread starter yoki
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I remember having a bottle of pop on the front rack of bike and keeping having to refill it!
Havnt supped much pop this time yet!
Problem (or blessing) was, I hadn't yet had a sheep about the place at that time, so didn't really have a reference for the weather beyond that weekend.
Back to the years between the cows and the sheep when life was simpler.
Wasn't happy though!
- Location
- East Ayrshire
I can't remember exactly how many ewes we lost by weaning in 2018 but I started away with 740 ewes and weaned 331 lambs
That can’t be rightI can't remember exactly how many ewes we lost by weaning in 2018 but I started away with 740 ewes and weaned 331 lambs
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Unfortunately it is. Lost over 200 ewes before lambing and a lot of the others either slipped lambs or gave birth to tiny non-viable ones. Lost a good few ewes over the summer months too
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I can't remember exactly how many ewes we lost by weaning in 2018 but I started away with 740 ewes and weaned 331 lambs
Unfortunately it is. Lost over 200 ewes before lambing and a lot of the others either slipped lambs or gave birth to tiny non-viable ones. Lost a good few ewes over the summer months too
Can't like either, but I can fully believe it. Know a lot of farms lost big numbers of sheep.
Ewes were thin and not good all summer even resting just singles, easily the worst spring I've ever seen
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
You did well to come back from thatI can't remember exactly how many ewes we lost by weaning in 2018 but I started away with 740 ewes and weaned 331 lambs
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Thanks but I was "only" the shepherd at the time. The estate owner decided to downsize that summer for various reasons (losses probably helped) so I now manage what I used to shepherd. Some of the surviving ewes from the rest of the estate (roughly similar ewe losses - probably even worse lamb losses) came round here to make the numbers back up.
lost another 2 lambs over night inside from what I think was vitamin e issues. May I ask some advice, i have vitamin e injection to give new borns. But 1 vet says give half ml each and other vet says give 1ml each ? Just wondering what others give. These are the lambs I put outside yesterday before next spell rain. Pleased to find all alive and well this morning
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@will6910 we do 0.5ml for a newborn lamb, so maybe 1 ml if they're older. I'd suggest you start jagging the ewes in late pregnancy to prevent lambs being born damaged. It stopped our sudden summer deaths in otherwise healthy lambs.
Edit: now working on solving the non-sudden summer deaths, thankfully not many
Edit: now working on solving the non-sudden summer deaths, thankfully not many
Don’t you always have a lot of problems at lambing time generally?
Just ewe lambs and hoggets lambs low on vitamin e cause I made a mess off their feeding. Ewes lambed no problem apart from to many ewe deaths
In what way?
Forage supplemented appropriately with a good quality concentrate.
It's probably the one aspect of sheep keeping we got on top of the quickest.
What % of ewes have you lost?
Ewes all lambed no problem with it and milk quality was great. But the first time lambing shearlings and ewe lambs i underfed them abit as was wary off lambs too big. So wouldn’t have got the same vitamins in them compared to the ewes. The meal has extra vitamin e added as standard for the mix
Between the ewes and few ewe lambs about 11%. Lost 1 ewe last year for entire year
Crikey 11% is a lot of ewes to loose I’m under 1% and not happy about that.
It is when I only had 80 to begin with