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Ewe lamb/ram lamb ratios
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<blockquote data-quote="jonty1" data-source="post: 6701526" data-attributes="member: 145313"><p>I thought you may be interested in my experience. We have a sheep stud and selling rams is our bread and butter. We had a serious drought here in our part of the world last year and all our ewes had to hand fed everything. We cut down the number of ewes we bred. Hay was hard to get and very expensive so we fed lupins and what ever hay we could get - usually triticale, wheaten hay and a little meadow hay. We hand fed the rams prior to mating also. We mated 150 ewes and hand feeding continued for the first 5 weeks of mating.</p><p></p><p>Normally we have an even number of both sexes give or take about 5%. At this lambing time we had 100 ewe lambs, 60 ram lambs and 12 ewes either did not lamb or lost their lamb at lambing time. After making several enquiries I found out that feeding grain prior to mating can increase ewe lambs by 15% - but our percentage was much higher. This was the first time we have ever had such a high ewe lamb percentage. </p><p></p><p>We are due to start mating in about 6 weeks so there is no extra feed for the girls - I am trying to ensure we get a different result next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jonty1, post: 6701526, member: 145313"] I thought you may be interested in my experience. We have a sheep stud and selling rams is our bread and butter. We had a serious drought here in our part of the world last year and all our ewes had to hand fed everything. We cut down the number of ewes we bred. Hay was hard to get and very expensive so we fed lupins and what ever hay we could get - usually triticale, wheaten hay and a little meadow hay. We hand fed the rams prior to mating also. We mated 150 ewes and hand feeding continued for the first 5 weeks of mating. Normally we have an even number of both sexes give or take about 5%. At this lambing time we had 100 ewe lambs, 60 ram lambs and 12 ewes either did not lamb or lost their lamb at lambing time. After making several enquiries I found out that feeding grain prior to mating can increase ewe lambs by 15% - but our percentage was much higher. This was the first time we have ever had such a high ewe lamb percentage. We are due to start mating in about 6 weeks so there is no extra feed for the girls - I am trying to ensure we get a different result next year. [/QUOTE]
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