Now I’m not Pro easycare by any means we kept 300 of them at one point and switched back to mules for various reasons, but just imagine a bad tempered 100kg Suffolk Mule running about under panels with no dog, she’s covered with maggots and no way of catching her, circumstances like that call...
That’s exactly my thoughts with the beltex I’d have something saleable 6-8kg lighter
We only buy very strong tuppers
And aim to wean very early so they don’t pull their mother back to much for the following year
I would say that’s why we have more stores
IMO the turn around of the mother for...
He thinks we could have more away sooner yes, I often find we have a lot of stores off that particular bunch
Sorry I should have mentioned that we creep lambs reared by ewe lambs
Generally we tup 100+ April lambing ewe lambs to Charolais, with good results lambing outdoors. A mate of mine (who has a lot of sheep experience in NZ) was over when we weaned that bunch and suggested I try a beltex so we got more away finished at weaning (late July). I was unsure but bought a...
Scanned 569 mix Mules and Suffolk X on Sunday
14 Empty
109 Singles
355 Twins
91 Triplets
197% with empties out
Fingers crossed for the ewe lambs next week
Thanks for all the replies. They were fed well up to tupping on an 18% blend of barley an hi-pro pellets, I would guess at tupping they were well over 40Kg all though I haven't weighed them recently, at scanning I would say the majority were between BCS 3 and 3.5, they're currently on very tight...
250 mule ewe lambs due 1st of April, tupped by charolais and scanned at 128%
Would you lamb them inside or out? Pros and Cons for both please
Facilities available to do either with no massive infrastructural change
Lambing alongside 400 ewes due on the same date of which only 60 triplets will...
Anyone using a Peter Allen hopper filler to fill feeders such as 3 in 1s ? Are they worth the money ? With stock being kept further and further from the yard it seems a long way to fill feeders with the telehandler. TIA
They are currently on old PP and SSSI grass with access to hay and a small amount of oats through the three in one. The group will be split fairly soon according to scanning with triplets coming in and some singles for adoption, doubles will have to be divided across two fields for lambing, one...
That's my concern really, not expecting the grass to last the duration of lambing, however I probably should have mentioned we will be moving ewes and lambs into a new field as they lamb so the stocking rate will always be reducing hopefully quite quickly when we get going. Am I best to just...
First time lambing outdoors this year, Mixture of 400 easycare and mule ewes scanned at 193%, due 1st of April.
Unsure how to feed them up to lambing as we have always lambed inside previously, on the basis of 1lb per expected lamb on the due date, building up to this in the 4 weeks prior to...
I am Currently in my first year of study at Harper Adams and am looking for a lambing job over the Christmas holidays.
I have lots of previous lambing experience both at home with our own 350 ewe flock as well as else where contract shepherding before I came to Harper, I am happy to work...
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