If in doubt put it out is our motto here
Is a lumpy bag a reason to Cull?
- Thread starter crazy_bull
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
With culls the trade they’ve been this last few years it makes perfect sense. Keep a young healthy flock!
U soon regret keeping a dodgy udder sheep in middle of lambing when u realise the sheep can’t mother lambsWith culls the trade they’ve been this last few years it makes perfect sense. Keep a young healthy flock!
- Location
- Cheshire
That was back in March. Anything the felt wrong or even looked at me wrong was culled this year, no exceptions from now on
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Axe them in their prime, had to go and find out what your cull price is doing, and it's smoking! 
Good trade for curried goat in some communities here in the UK...Axe them in their prime, had to go and find out what your cull price is doing, and it's smoking!
The moral of the story( and the one by pistonbroke) is that naming sheep is the kiss of deathsame here,
Sparkles in my profile pic!!
One year blind one teat, " we'll keep her at least she can rear one"
next year blind both teats and had triplets, sold as pet lambs " we'll keep her as shes paid her keep from pet lamb sale, and make sure she doesn't see the tup again."
She was like @Gator Houdini !, found the tup somehow
Ended up in lamb with 3!, took twin lamb, nursed for two weeks, Ringwombed & three watery lambs all died within 24hrs, a she died 2 days later
NEVER AGAIN!!!!
- Location
- central scotland
Weaning and again pre tupping then recheck the triplets after scanning just in case
Yes - if the welfare of not culling is worse. No if you haven’t Blydi checked before then…
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
As above, I do if I have a legitimate welfare reason. When we ran the Cambridge crosses, I hung up any scanned for quins (1-3/year) the following week. Experience had taught me that taking them through to lambing resulted in problems for the ewe, or dead lambs, more often than not.
Most of the cull cows we sold would have been settled in calf too, which was better than having them tearing round on slippy concrete every three weeks when they were bulling.
Obviously none sold anywhere near calving/lambing though.
- Location
- central scotland
Suppose it depends when you scan, I certainly wouldn’t cull 100 day plus in lambers generally we scan 50-70 days in lamb and then cull only on welfare grounds , no point in lambing a ewe with multiple births that is unable to rear/carry them