- Location
- West Wales
That’s seriously high on ewe lambs? What’s the split of singles,twins triplets on them?
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- Thread starter James169
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joshp217
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- Location
- Not so sunny west wales
Rather him than me
- Location
- central scotland
scanned first 315 yesterday, 120 ewes 216% (62% twins)
120 suckled gimmers 195% (69% twins)
75 ewe lambs 118 % lots of lambs in the ewe hoggs (lamb and a half) just too high a barren % hopefully get the rest scanned next week
120 suckled gimmers 195% (69% twins)
75 ewe lambs 118 % lots of lambs in the ewe hoggs (lamb and a half) just too high a barren % hopefully get the rest scanned next week
Catastrophic.
253 scanned mostly Tex X Mule. 160%
85 singles, 14 trebles.
Handful of empties but tups still in.
Will be result of absolutely no grass at flushing time, I reckon.
Had 18% ewe nuts for a month to help, waste of money? Who knows....
Am fast falling out of love with Texel blood.
253 scanned mostly Tex X Mule. 160%
85 singles, 14 trebles.
Handful of empties but tups still in.
Will be result of absolutely no grass at flushing time, I reckon.
Had 18% ewe nuts for a month to help, waste of money? Who knows....
Am fast falling out of love with Texel blood.
farmer92
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- Location
- Northamptonshire
We had our flock scanned on Saturday. 200% which I’m happy with, although it looks like we’ll have quite a few triplets!! 
farmer92
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- Location
- Northamptonshire
We also supplemented with ewe nuts before tupping. Grass was non-existent!!
farmer92
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- Location
- Northamptonshire
We use Cheryl too. Very efficient and pretty accurate.
Fortunately only 57 of them, another 170 to go through they'll be more like 140%.
Can't remember exactly, (on holiday cleaning barns) but only two triplets, mostly twins.
Agreed, a terrible scanning for ewe lambs, but very pleased by the empty rate, and they are all well grown....
- Location
- West Wales
That’s a decent scan then and not a disaster if only 2 triplets
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
Scanned 283 on Sunday gone, texel cross and a few mules at 184%. Only 3 empty and 23 triplets so not too bad
beltextexel
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- Location
- Scorton, North Yorkshire
That's very close to ideal I reckon.
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
Thanks we were pleased as had a few bad scans over recent years
muleman
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scanned 864 swaledale ewes last night....146 singles,476 twins,192 triplets,14 quads, 30 empty....202%
Also scanned the 88 mule gimmer lambs that we couldnt sell last september....they were 53 singles,20 twins and 15 empty 106% so ideal really considering everyone was telling us we would have to take all the twin lambs off and let the hogg out with a single....a few empty but not really a disaster for smaller end hoggs.
Also scanned the 88 mule gimmer lambs that we couldnt sell last september....they were 53 singles,20 twins and 15 empty 106% so ideal really considering everyone was telling us we would have to take all the twin lambs off and let the hogg out with a single....a few empty but not really a disaster for smaller end hoggs.
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Ciderman8961
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Scanned 260 texel mules today 167%
Scan mules early next month.
Scan mules early next month.
muleman
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Great to see them in such good condition isnt it?
Some years would have spent £3000 by now on concentrate or liquid feed....havnt spent anything yet....payback for last spring.
The feed firms will be getting twitchy though!
It might help even things up after such an expensive year last year, feed costs were frightening