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Same principle as once bred heifers. Lamb in March, wean at 8 weeks end of May, kill end of June.
Is this a thing? Anyone doing it?
Is this a thing? Anyone doing it?
You’d lose less money doing it with old ewes…
You’d only get away with it once. After lambing they count as ewes really. I know we’ve all dried a Hogg off that’s done something stupid and cashed it in May but, not sure how you’d go on with a big batch?I was thinking they'd still kill as lambs
They're not good typesWhy not just sell as an outfit? You'd get £100/life if they're good types
They're not good types
If it’s good enough too stand a Hogg and single I’d leave the twin on the broker… but then I’m just mean…I would think you would be much better lambing broken mouth ewes, take one lamb off and let her tear the other with no creep, then kill the ewe at weaning. If your ground is good enough for a Hogg to rear a lamb then be able to killer her I would think brokers would be a better option.
What a joke.Another nail in your idea, I have to sign declarations that the lambs I send off have not given birth, a few years ago I had some ewe lambs give birth to decent twins but they were poor mothers so adopted them onto ewes that needed them, left the ewe lambs 2 weeks for udders to rise and then sent them to mart and declared they had lambed. They were all good meat and around 50kg, Had around half what they were worth compared to lambs which hadn’t lambed, they didn’t come to much more than £1/kg, probably 3-4 years ago, the first year that lambs hit £6/kg DW.
Random stores.What have you got?
Never heard of that beforeAnother nail in your idea, I have to sign declarations that the lambs I send off have not given birth, a few years ago I had some ewe lambs give birth to decent twins but they were poor mothers so adopted them onto ewes that needed them, left the ewe lambs 2 weeks for udders to rise and then sent them to mart and declared they had lambed. They were all good meat and around 50kg, Had around half what they were worth compared to lambs which hadn’t lambed, they didn’t come to much more than £1/kg, probably 3-4 years ago, the first year that lambs hit £6/kg DW.