Put tups to ewes 5th October for 6 weeks. Put them with the cattle until ewes come in to lamb...tups come back too and I turn them out into the fields where the ewes and lambs go. Do it so I can keep an eye on them. Still with the ewes now but will go with the ram lambs in the next week or so, when they go to mow the cattles winter pasture.
When to you remove the Tups from the flock?
- Thread starter JoeFo
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Listen to the head shepherd podcast on precision lambing. 17 days and done
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I didn't tease but that's what I do. Pretty much all over bar the shouting after three weeks this time and week four is usually very quiet. Another week would be a waste of time and effort. I'd rather have a handful more cull ewes to cash and help to pay the spring bills.
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- Essex
Maybe he had just worn it down to a stump?2 cycles and a couple of days here normally. Left a ram longer with one group this year as unsure if he’d tupped them all after he got a scab on his todger. Only 10 repeats from his 123 ewes as it happens, so obviously has a high pain threshold!
That mob started lambing on April 1st, with the last one yesterday.The one before was 10 days previously.
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- South east scotland
Pure stud ewes get 17 days after being with the teaser for 14 days. Everything else is 35 days. Had 2 emptys out of the stud ewes this time at scanning. And only had 150 returns in the b flock ewes after the first cycle tups go out on the 10th of november.
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- West Wales
Similar here, hill ewes can start 10 days before the commercial ewes so that they effectively have a live teaser to bring them into season, with each farm starting 7-10 days apart after that then ewe lambs. Apart from the earlies the main lambing is 8 weeks but single figures a day the first and last week.
All out 27th November
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- Perthshire, Scotland
I’ve tried 21 days but too many empty.
My trouble is that I’m very short on wintering ground, but plenty space during the summer, so need max number of ewes to keep grass in check. Away wintering isn’t an option as I’m paying 90p/head/week for ewe hoggs as it is.
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- sw scotland
It doesn't stop a lot of men so sheep are no differentIt wasn't a Charollais, it was one of those scabby looking, shedding ones. Tough as nails to put up with that I reckon.
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
I noticed quite a new lamb up on top on Tuesday. Would have been about 3 days old.
It was following a ewe which had been scanned as empty.
It was following a ewe which had been scanned as empty.
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- West Wales
When were they scanned? It may have been too early to have seen on the scanner?
We had a Welsh tup here who got back to the ewes across wire fences, hedge and bank and through the woods. He served 5 that he had missed, due to lamb end of June. He went back about three more times until he went to an Eid celebration. He was quite a character, but his heart was on the open range.
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You've changed. I remember when you used to lamb for 5 months.Similar here, hill ewes can start 10 days before the commercial ewes so that they effectively have a live teaser to bring them into season, with each farm starting 7-10 days apart after that then ewe lambs. Apart from the earlies the main lambing is 8 weeks but single figures a day the first and last week.
All out 27th November
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- West Wales
Still do, January 5th to April 24th
instead of doing 60 “terminals” over January and February I now do those 60 plus 80odd 7-8 year olds which are still FM, far easier lambing 140 than 60.
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- N.Lincs
I'm impressed that you find the time to inspect all your tups' todgers while they're all at work Do you do it on a daily basis
......or do you have 'staff' for that sort of job
Definitely a case for delegation
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Do you do it on a daily basis
......or do you have 'staff' for that sort of job
Done 14 days teaser then 21 days with the tup this year and I had 15% empty and lambing was still over 36 days for some reason anyways
So going back too 5 weeks this year
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Done 14 days teaser then 21 days with the tup this year and I had 15% empty and lambing was still over 36 days for some reason anyways
You've got an interloper "assisting" with tripping there.
If you run a closed flock a shorter tipping period will drive genetic gain in terms of fertility.
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- Montgomeryshire
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- Cheshire
I was thinking that but couldn’t think how too phrase the question...I daren’t ask what experience you base that comment on.