- Location
- Fife
My understanding was that teasers would help get the ewes cycling and almost sync them?
How to shorten lambing period?
- Thread starter Kazak
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My understanding was that teasers would help get the ewes cycling and almost sync them?
- Location
- West Wales
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
No I realise that but drunken stunts like that can ruin people's lives. I'm all for youngsters going out and enjoying but ffs don't take it too far.
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- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Is there anyway to get the ewes cycling and therefore lambing in an even spread rather than a mental busy time at days 4-6 then a tail.
I suppose you could sponge them. It's really not that mental using teasers as they will spread over a ~17 day cycle
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
I know I've said this before but a couple of old boys near here never take the rams from the ewes. They lamb from christmas onwards but mainly jan to march. Never a rush and they just go round the sheep once or twice a day as normal. They don't get any mismothering and rarely loose many to bad weather. I'm begining to wonder if they had it right all along?
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
That's my point.
I'm getting roughly 90% within the first 14 days but 20-25% of the flock lambing over 48 hours at roughly day 4-6. Would be easier if they did spread out over the 17 days
Thats some going!
were they outside or inside? I do find out outdoor lambing ewes lamb far quicker than ewes inside, anyone else find that?
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
I don't think using a teaser would help in your case. Think they work best when tupping early and people getting very slow starts.
- Location
- South east scotland
Outside apart from a few quads and quins.
Thats some going!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
What teaser system do you use ?
- Location
- South east scotland
I put 8 teasers with all my ewes in one batch for a week then out for a week then tups in. Must be a vet thing because it was them that told me to do it that way and see bovine suggests the same method
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
cheers, cant wait to give it a try later this year.
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
@scottish-lleyn what tup to ewe ratio are you using?
I put the beltex at 1:30, bfl 1:40 and Cheviot 1:50
I put the beltex at 1:30, bfl 1:40 and Cheviot 1:50
- Location
- North Yorkshire
What kinda ratio of teaser to ewe would be best?
- Location
- South east scotland
shearlings to 5/6yo run at around 1:90. Lambs 1:60 swapped every few days. I used some texel tups this year and ran them at 1:60. The southdowns run at 1:50/60.
Do you have to run them together? Could you split into 3 lots and run 7 days apart, 7 days teaser, 7 day break, rams in? Even if you combined later to catch stragglers.
cotswoldcs
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- Location
- Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds
We've also never used teasers but like others am interested in the idea. The only big issue I see is economics. With 800 ewes I'd need 8 of them as a minimum and aside from shortening lambing I can't see a big improvement in fertility/ lambing percentage. Barren rate is currently 2% (10 year mean) so I doubt we'd see a big reduction there. I guess I could use 4 in with half of the ewes for 7 days and then move to the other half for another 7 days. Is it worth getting some of our own lambs done (obviously keeping them entire) or buying some "cheap" rams specifically for the purpose?
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
We don't use teasers on our April flock, just the feb ones as we've struggled in the past with slow starts and high % of empties (after addressing a toxo issue).
April ewes generally get on with it anyway
April ewes generally get on with it anyway
- Location
- South east scotland
you would be better keeping your own for biosecurety reasons then you only have the price of the opp and not buying crappy tips aswell.