GrannyAching
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Total disaster in terms of planning/management. Despite the ewes being lean and some of the lambs being barely 40kg, I kept them really tight on the run up to tupping in the hope that I wouldn't have triplets but mostly twins and singles and the lambs would be singles.So .........
13 ewe lambs
7 singles
4 twins
2 triplets one being the smallest one put to
28 ewes and hogs
1 barren
15 twins
11 triplets One of these is an 8 year old Wilty x who has put lots of weight on to achieve the remarkable CS of 2.25 (in a good light!)
1 - jumped out knackered her leg and didn't get done
207% over all. The guy who did the scanning said it could have been worse - they could have been his!
I didn't put the tubby buckets out this year which only seems to have meant more second services not less lambs.
Very impressed with getting accurate scans at 6 weeks and the advice that one of the triplets has two big lambs and one very small but alive. Trying not to panic as they aren't due til Easter.
I think my ram and his son are pretty fertile! I need to use something else next year across most of the ewes so it will be interesting to see what happens.
Actually, I would put money on a stroppy Welsh ram lamb beating a large sheep lowland type to the front of any queue.