- Location
- Easter ross
Just scanned our home ones today and did 192%. Up on last year (175%). Mules to the texel. They weren't in great nick pre tupping but have done great considering.
Scanning %
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Where they raddled @beltextexel ?
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
beltextexel
Member
- Location
- Scorton, North Yorkshire
No not raddled, just turned tups out and left them to it. All sheep are enzo and toxo vaccinated and there were no signs of any abortion. The geld ewes were generally all from one group that was turned out with 3 tups suggesting that one tup was not doing his job. Doesn't explain the low % though. Too many singles. A previous group of hoggs we scanned which were 3/4 bred Beltex or purer scanned at 136% with only 5 geld out of 121 so I was expecting these more commercial hoggs to do similar.
- Location
- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
What age did you wean at mate?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I wouldn't be too worried if they were CS 3.5-4, certainly better there than CS 2 at mating. Much over 4 and they'll be pulling numbers down maybe, but 3.5 for a lowland ewe is spot on in my book.
I would be looking for another reason for low prolificacy. Presumably the same/similar genetics were scanned last year. Are they always around that prolificacy, or is something different this year?
Snowy
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- Location
- north yorkshire
I've just got my first 100 lambs on the ground and it feels like it's taken 100 ewes to get them!! Fortunately i haven't lost many and it's nice to have some strong lambs to look at especially when trying to hit the spring lamb trade but i'd be kidding myself if i didn't want a few more lambs. Fortuantely i didn't scan them cos it would have ruined my Christmas but the first 70 ewes that have lambed would have scanned out at 150% and that's obviously not taking into account the geld ones that i'll find out about at the end.
- Location
- breconshire
Scanned ours jan 19th
564 welsh ewes, 420 tupped on the hill to 8 welsh rams the rest tupped on the ground with meatlinc or suff and then turned to the hill
139%
0 - 32
1 - 280
2 - 250
3 - 2
158 mainly meatlinc x or suff x welsh and a few elderly welsh ewe kept on the ground
156%
0 - 5
1 - 64
2 - 85
3 - 4
More barrens but more twins than last year, 143% overall (139%) last year
Bit disappointed with the ground sheep but quite pleased with the hill sheep
564 welsh ewes, 420 tupped on the hill to 8 welsh rams the rest tupped on the ground with meatlinc or suff and then turned to the hill
139%
0 - 32
1 - 280
2 - 250
3 - 2
158 mainly meatlinc x or suff x welsh and a few elderly welsh ewe kept on the ground
156%
0 - 5
1 - 64
2 - 85
3 - 4
More barrens but more twins than last year, 143% overall (139%) last year
Bit disappointed with the ground sheep but quite pleased with the hill sheep
- Location
- South east scotland
average age of 10 weeks would usually be around 12/14weeks. Tryed earlier and noticed no major upsets with the lambs. So will be weaning them all early this summer again.
Grimsbyforever
Member
- Location
- Co. Antrim
yeah our scanning has been around this for last 2/3 years. We have bought in a lot of new ewe lambs and new tups to see if this can make a difference. They are scanned in 2 weeks, just wanting to see if I should start culling out for singles then if that's all their rearing. Started EID this year as well, so hopefully that should reveal more about them as well.
romneymarsh
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- Location
- Romney Marsh
Disaster here this year .
Could be worse ever .
Empties at about 10% usually 2-3% and overall 30% less than I normally expect . Vets says dry Autumn with some theory about toxins in dry grass limiting production? My diary does remind me that BCS was an issue in summer , a lot of 300 sent away to fresh keep, scanned the worse . We are still well below the normal rainfall curve by 250mm . Next summer could be interesting.
I recorded ewe weights and BCS pre tupping and it will be interesting to see correlation when I get scan results into the
Border.
But some comfort in that I don't think I will be alone in this extreme SE corner .
A bit depressing really along with everything else .
Could be worse ever .
Empties at about 10% usually 2-3% and overall 30% less than I normally expect . Vets says dry Autumn with some theory about toxins in dry grass limiting production? My diary does remind me that BCS was an issue in summer , a lot of 300 sent away to fresh keep, scanned the worse . We are still well below the normal rainfall curve by 250mm . Next summer could be interesting.
I recorded ewe weights and BCS pre tupping and it will be interesting to see correlation when I get scan results into the
Border.
But some comfort in that I don't think I will be alone in this extreme SE corner .
A bit depressing really along with everything else .
- Location
- Cornwall
Scanned 100 Highlander ewe lambs yesterday
12 empty
44 singles
40 twins
4 trips
12 empty
44 singles
40 twins
4 trips
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
All you chaps complaining about empty ewe's, why do you take the tups out, surely a late lamb is better than no lamb.
Depends on if you are restricted in how long you want to be committed to looking them. Ours get two cycles and that's it, makes lambing from April first to mid may and that's long enough for us.
romneymarsh
Member
- Location
- Romney Marsh
One lot of mine, the rams are still in and they had a higher barren rate than the sheep that were just given two cycles.
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
But surely those ewes won't be empty, they'll just be late.
Downton_shep
Member
- Location
- Leintwardine
Scanner should be able to tell the difference between late and empty
Downton_shep
Member
- Location
- Leintwardine
Be interesting to see if cs is related
- Location
- breconshire
I agree with you really but our tups came out the day we scanned, we'll probably re-scan our barrens in a couple weeks as we scanned a week earlier this year than last