Bad presentations

[Aspiring Peasants]

I'm not talking about feed company presentations when the main reason for going is the free buffet.

The other morning we had 8 hoggs lamb of which only 1 was a normal presentation. The others were breach, legs back, heads back etc. We lost 2 lambs and 1 hogg.

Is this just a run of bad luck or is there some reason that increases the likelihood of this happening?
The lambs were fairly big.

 

[paul&mandy]

Same here, started the 2nd cycle and been bad ever since. mainly heads stuck out.

 

[jonny]

I'm not talking about feed company presentations when the main reason for going is the free buffet.

The other morning we had 8 hoggs lamb of which only 1 was a normal presentation. The others were breach, legs back, heads back etc. We lost 2 lambs and 1 hogg.

Is this just a run of bad luck or is there some reason that increases the likelihood of this happening?
The lambs were fairly big.

That’s why I let them run dry this year, lambed 70 ewe lambs last year most came with the head and 1 leg and they were all at least 50kg at mating

 

[primmiemoo]

They're lambing single leg back presentations here ~ mostly without intervention ~ but there can be runs of trickier presentations that then just return to the usual. No rhyme nor reason.
It's a pleasure to watch the hoggs getting on with doubles. Not many have needed help... yet

 

[CopperBeech]

Leg back head out means lamb too big or ewe too fat/tight

 

[Al R]

Miss presentations just happen I think, we had 47 backwards lambs in a row in 2018, even sets of triplets all backwards etc, 6 different breeds spread over a few mile. The next few days we didn’t have a single backwards lamb.

Diet/breed will have a big outcome on presentations. Leaner ewes lamb a lot easier. Since changing breeds on my ewe lambs and keeping a bit tighter pre lambing it’s rare we pull any with a ewe lamb

 

[puppet]

We seem to have got into a run of lambing stuck single hoggs after a great start with no interventions. Barest field ever so not over-fit. Should lamb fine next year I hope

 

[primmiemoo]

I swear a ewe hogg had a halfbred alpaca one year. It wasn't so much a lambing as an unpacking.
All ended well enough in the end, though.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Thanks for the replies. The next 8 have only had 2 with 1 leg back, rest OK. Guess it's just the law of averages