Greythundercloudys
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Just seen that on a farm in the Borders a ewe that was scanned for 4 has had 8, good size lmbs in the pics, thought it was April fools, 2 enough for my ewes.
Ewe has 8 lmbs,!!!!.
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CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Bet there’s a couple of ewes with no lambs in that pen at end of lambing .......
- Location
- S E Glos
Tsk. Just after a council house, if you ask me.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Think someone needs to have a closer look at the rest of the ewes. She'll have pinched 4 lambs before she lambed any of her own. Be a couple of glimmers/shearlings stotting about with no lambs probably.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
When I was young and more foolish we had a flock of 50 pure Cambridge ewes. They would routinely scan at 300% and once had a ewe give birth to 7 lambs, or rather, rats.
don’t remember how many survived but I do remember there was a lot of pee’ing about involved.
Roll on a few years and the scanner would regularly find a quin or two in the Texel x Cambridge ewes, which were hung up the next week rather than put them through it.
don’t remember how many survived but I do remember there was a lot of pee’ing about involved.
Roll on a few years and the scanner would regularly find a quin or two in the Texel x Cambridge ewes, which were hung up the next week rather than put them through it.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Did anyone read in farmers weekly about the shepherd with 2% mortality, fair play if it’s true, but that is going some.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
He must be a ‘pedigree’ shepherd. It amazes me how many of them claim to never lose any.
Greythundercloudys
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It's in the sun, 5 year old Suffolk ewe, think 2 or 3 died, she still has two, you would think she would go off her legs,
- Location
- Scot Borders
If it’s in the Sun it’s bound to be true
- Location
- West Wales
The ewe that had 8 I’m sure I was told she lay on 2 within 24 hours?
4 is enough hassle to deal with, last ewe that had 4 here, adopted 2 off, both survived, the 2 she was left with she went out with and both died, she spent 2 weeks as a milk bar for the spare lambs then went to the empty field as she wouldn’t take 1 lamb after a week of just the 2 of them
4 is enough hassle to deal with, last ewe that had 4 here, adopted 2 off, both survived, the 2 she was left with she went out with and both died, she spent 2 weeks as a milk bar for the spare lambs then went to the empty field as she wouldn’t take 1 lamb after a week of just the 2 of them
shame today is not that day. 
- Location
- Leicestershire
Aye the knacker man must be popping by for his lunchHe must be a ‘pedigree’ shepherd. It amazes me how many of them claim to never lose any.
- Location
- West Wales
Booked for Every Friday mid day and I’ll load with the telehandler, any other day they’ve got to handle multiple bags and ewes by themselves. I had 1 day of 0.6%, most at 5-10% but all from texelsAye the knacker man must be popping by for his lunch
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
yes , seems an inherent weakness with multi lambs , had a lot of strong triplets here this year (and mostly on the least milky ewes lol) despite all having extra colostrum a number of the extras have succumbed over the next 2 weeks to one thing or another even after going on the bucket with ad lib milk , just never flourished .The ewe that had 8 I’m sure I was told she lay on 2 within 24 hours?
4 is enough hassle to deal with, last ewe that had 4 here, adopted 2 off, both survived, the 2 she was left with she went out with and both died, she spent 2 weeks as a milk bar for the spare lambs then went to the empty field as she wouldn’t take 1 lamb after a week of just the 2 of them
sherg
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- Location
- shropshire
We had a lleyn ewe have 5 one year and 6 the next out of the 11 lambs she reared 2 and then she went in the culls
Are pure lyens renowned for being prolific. We had a 5 a few years back, Suffolk cross, turned an odd treble away before but one lamb never thrives as well.
- Location
- West Wales
I know someone who bought 5 lleyn unscanned in the mart suspected in lamb, he’d already scanned his ewes so didn’t bother getting the scanner back in. 21 lambs arrived
Do pure BFL have a lot of multiples, a hobbyist neighbours jumped in with ours and had one lamb today with three a Suffolk ewe. Hope he hasn’t covered too many.I know someone who bought 5 lleyn unscanned in the mart suspected in lamb, he’d already scanned his ewes so didn’t bother getting the scanner back in. 21 lambs arrived
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
It's the ewe that dictates the litter size, not the tup. One squirt from a male will have enough for millions of offspring, but it needs to see the eggs to fertilise.
Surely that breed must bring prolifically to something like a swale though