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Wishful Thinker
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
A disappointing 170%. Going to have to go away from texel ewes not getting the lambs
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Done 550, 2nd and 3rd crops, 40 odd too soon to tell numbers so barren in per centages, 170 and 174 the two bunches. But bar 1 quad and the inevitable few singles and threes, despite lower than normal a real nice mainly twins scanning, well pleased
I had a lot of empties this year in the early lambers
But the bigger problem is I can't pin it down
Came from mixed ages and different Rams. And as far as I know I did the same as every other year.
It seems as though the ewes were in lamb at some stage but wernt at scannning as we use yellow red blue Radford and only a handful were done with the last raffle blue and these were in lamb
But the bigger problem is I can't pin it down
Came from mixed ages and different Rams. And as far as I know I did the same as every other year.
It seems as though the ewes were in lamb at some stage but wernt at scannning as we use yellow red blue Radford and only a handful were done with the last raffle blue and these were in lamb
TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
What sort of condition is optimum for around tupping?...is a bot leaner but on a good protein diet better or a touch on the fat side?
Ant...
- Location
- Cornwall
Late February lambing lleyns, scanned at 190% and that included ewe lambs. Without the ewe lambs 210%
1 set of quads to deal with but majority twins. Happy with that.
1 set of quads to deal with but majority twins. Happy with that.
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Could they have been exposed to something nasty like Toxo/ Enzo?
Not sure at what stage of pregnancy they start aborting but I'd be having a chat with a vet and getting bloods done if I was you...
I had Toxo a couple of years ago...not good!
@bovine ?
If it's toxo I think I'd be too late to act would I?
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
I'd have to look it up but I've got something in the back of my mind saying you can inject them with ABs ?
I could be wrong...I'm sure someone on here will put you straight, speak to your vet in the morning!
I found out after a terrible lambing with lots of dead and aborted lambs,
I vaccinate all retained ewe lambs now.
Downtrodden Dad
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- Location
- Cumbria
Pretty sure its only Enzo you can go in with Alamycin LA at a certain stage to try and help.(But I was once wrong),,,,,
I think you are right. AFAIK the Alamycin LA surpresses the bug and allows the ewes to carry long enough for the lambs to be fully developed when born. Think you give the ewe the LA about 2 - 3 weeks before due date. Might be wrong.
Well, yes. You can't magic up lambs from nowhere, but knowing you have it and putting a plan in place for next year would be wise.
Enzo 'wakes up' from about 90 days of gestation (so has no role in low scanning %). Can use oxytet LA to reduce losses, but it doesn't clear the infection. In an outbreak I'm OK with it, but long term vaccination is the only option. generally around 110 days. Remember anything treated before ~90 days has no effect - need accurate breeding dates
- Location
- Herefordshire
Suff x Mules 208 %,too many triplets .Wish it was a little lower.
Pure Texels 184 %,happy enough with this.
Pure Texels 184 %,happy enough with this.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Whilst it might be worth doing some bloods to investigate, if only to rule out anything for which you could do something next year, I've spoken to several early lambing flocks (mostly Dec) that had more empties and a lower %age than normal. Scanners have told the same story. Our own early mob where just the same, for no good reason, which is why I only lambed 64 last week, where I'd normally do around 100.
My earlies on get one chance of the ram, then drop back to lamb in March. Those same ewes took the ram very quickly in October, and with only 3 returns marked after 17 days. Mine are vaccinated against Toxo, all bar the shearlings were vaccinated against Enzo and the yearlings are all vaccinated against Campylobacter, so covered pretty well all bases for infectious causes here. All were treated for known TE deficiencies and kept very calm for several weeks after mating (AI and natural service).
Just one of those years?
reverand
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- Location
- East lancs hills
What ewes are you tupping earlyWhilst it might be worth doing some bloods to investigate, if only to rule out anything for which you could do something next year, I've spoken to several early lambing flocks (mostly Dec) that had more empties and a lower %age than normal. Scanners have told the same story. Our own early mob where just the same, for no good reason, which is why I only lambed 64 last week, where I'd normally do around 100.
My earlies on get one chance of the ram, then drop back to lamb in March. Those same ewes took the ram very quickly in October, and with only 3 returns marked after 17 days. Mine are vaccinated against Toxo, all bar the shearlings were vaccinated against Enzo and the yearlings are all vaccinated against Campylobacter, so covered pretty well all bases for infectious causes here. All were treated for known TE deficiencies and kept very calm for several weeks after mating (AI and natural service).
Just one of those years?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
First chunk of the pedigree Charollais ewes lamb in December, the rest in March.