It all depends on your costs though doesn't it, my indoor lambing ewes are have run at 180% rearing lambs where as my outdoor lambing ewes will be about 150% but have cost a hell of a lot less and are less work for me.
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You could say the same about a continental though
Ceri
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Ceri
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We try our absolute best all year to keep losses down & do the job right, nothing gets neglected and we don't have any rented in land here there & everywhere that we would constantly have to travel to, so our farming is what I would call - all under control but when I calculate what we scanned & what we actually sell the difference is criminal 
I'm like where the fudge have they all gone that can't be right.................!!!! There's always something dropping off they never stop dieing & I mounts up over 12 months I guess 
I'm like where the fudge have they all gone that can't be right.................!!!! There's always something dropping off they never stop dieing & I mounts up over 12 months I guess
How to wreak your day, count how many lambs where scanned and how many you sell.We try our absolute best all year to keep losses down & do the job right, nothing gets neglected and we don't have any rented in land here there & everywhere that we would constantly have to travel to, so our farming is what I would call - all under control but when I calculate what we scanned & what we actually sell the difference is criminal
I won’t be doing that again, I try my best but there always going to die.mghley
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- Derbyshire
Seem to remember reading the national average for losses from scanning to turnout/ sale is something like 15% with some up to and over 20%
livestock 1
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I think the scanning to sale numbers are really something that’s many miles apart
There’s a lot to be done from one to another
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
The one I got can run off a battery. The shed I put it in doesn't have power (yet?
).livestock 1
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Mine runs off a battery but needs a sim box which goes flat within a day hence the power neededThe one I got can run off a battery. The shed I put it in doesn't have power (yet?
My outside lambing ewes are running at 4% losses to this point (another 7 days of first cycle) but have in really lost 12% because lambs are ending up as pets, dry weather means I spot the hungry lambs before they die.
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
I can’t believe anyone with sheep calculates what they scan to what they sell….it doesn’t matter what you jab or dose them with the ungrateful tw@ts still die.
wouldn’t matter if you had them in the front room watching tv with you (and I’m sure a few farmers probably do)…you’d look over one night and it would be laid dead on the settee
wouldn’t matter if you had them in the front room watching tv with you (and I’m sure a few farmers probably do)…you’d look over one night and it would be laid dead on the settee
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- Mendips Somerset
I recon you can only count live born to sold losses , lots of variables you have very little control over can effect losses , especially in smaller flocks
Ah the old bfl, someone left the window open and now she’s died.
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Aye, those wicked draughts get them every timeAh the old bfl, someone left the window open and now she’s died.
muleman
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We sold 175% off 900 swaledales and 100 mule ewes.
Only ever thought of us as average farmers.
Maybe the swaledale and mule shouldnt be as derided as it it
(and i dont mind criticising them if i see fit!)
muleman
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Scanning is just a guide and a management tool.
'Counting eggs before theyve hatched ' i always think!
muleman
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Like going round with a blindfold on though if you dont take any notice,
Some things you have no control over but some you have and can do something about it.
Yours probably is the right attitude to have in some ways though!
exmoorromney
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Yeh but you drench everything 10 times a year and routinely jab lambs with antibiotics so all you are doing is robbing people/farmers of the future for your own immediate gain!We sold 175% off 900 swaledales and 100 mule ewes.
Only ever thought of us as average farmers.
Maybe the swaledale and mule shouldnt be as derided as it it
(and i dont mind criticising them if i see fit!)
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
I’ve had more lambs to the lab for autopsy’s
Than the FBI have had dead bodies….they’ve had everything preventative that you can buy…..now they say a sheep doesn't die for no reason but I can guarantee you that’s bolloks….they sometimes die just for a giggle
muleman
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I never bother going to the lab with any, maybe been twice in my life.. hardly ever bother a vet either for sheep, if its deed its deed!