Ewe has 8 lmbs,!!!!.

[Greythundercloudys]

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.

 

[CopperBeech]

Bet there’s a couple of ewes with no lambs in that pen at end of lambing .......

 

[Gong Farmer]

Tsk. Just after a council house, if you ask me.

 

[Fat Lamb]

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.

 

[neilo]

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.

 

[S J H]

Did anyone read in farmers weekly about the shepherd with 2% mortality, fair play if it’s true, but that is going some.

 

[neilo]

Did anyone read in farmers weekly about the shepherd with 2% mortality, fair play if it’s true, but that is going some.

He must be a ‘pedigree’ shepherd. It amazes me how many of them claim to never lose any.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

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,

 

[Bob the beef]

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,

If it’s in the Sun it’s bound to be true

 

[Al R]

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

 

[Estate fencing.]

Did anyone read in farmers weekly about the shepherd with 2% mortality, fair play if it’s true, but that is going some.

I only have a 2% morality (some days) shame today is not that day.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

He must be a ‘pedigree’ shepherd. It amazes me how many of them claim to never lose any.

Aye the knacker man must be popping by for his lunch

 

[Al R]

Aye the knacker man must be popping by for his lunch

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 texels

 

[andybk]

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

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 .

 

[sherg]

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

 

[Northern territory]

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.

 

[Al R]

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.

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

 

[Northern territory]

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.

 

[Highland Mule]

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.

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.

 

[Northern territory]

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