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<blockquote data-quote="Nithsdale" data-source="post: 7527920" data-attributes="member: 17508"><p>Ewe losses in a typical year are 3-4% here, regardless of what I try to reduce it. I tend to loss nothing from after shearing til February.</p><p>If I lose a lot through lambing I don't lose much rest of year, if I keep them going at lambing I'll lose them after, through the summer.</p><p></p><p>This year has been bad, I've lost 5% since January and almost all were in the fortnight upto them lambing. Lots of prolapses this year but an awful lot of ewes I'd find dead and when I check them over - rotten lambs, but they'd show no signs when alive, and made no attempt to pass them... you'd just get a fresh dead ewe absolutely stinking back end</p><p></p><p>Scanning was about where it was the year before, and I've almost as many lambs running now - despite the ewe losses... so in a backwards way, it has evened itself out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I've got another 1% ewes still to cull (no milk or bad bags, bad mother, no lambs etc)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nithsdale, post: 7527920, member: 17508"] Ewe losses in a typical year are 3-4% here, regardless of what I try to reduce it. I tend to loss nothing from after shearing til February. If I lose a lot through lambing I don't lose much rest of year, if I keep them going at lambing I'll lose them after, through the summer. This year has been bad, I've lost 5% since January and almost all were in the fortnight upto them lambing. Lots of prolapses this year but an awful lot of ewes I'd find dead and when I check them over - rotten lambs, but they'd show no signs when alive, and made no attempt to pass them... you'd just get a fresh dead ewe absolutely stinking back end Scanning was about where it was the year before, and I've almost as many lambs running now - despite the ewe losses... so in a backwards way, it has evened itself out. I've got another 1% ewes still to cull (no milk or bad bags, bad mother, no lambs etc) [/QUOTE]
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