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how many folk lamb in May?
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<blockquote data-quote="livestock 1" data-source="post: 6204160" data-attributes="member: 106502"><p>I always used to lamb a lot of sheep from 22 April onwards and the reasons were weather and grass. The prospect the weather would be kinder and there would be a bite of grass to turn ewes and lambs onto or lamb sheep on. I now lamb everything from the first of April and my reasons are weather can often be as bad or worse at the end of April as it is at the beginning, ewes are harder to twin as they could have been in season three times before they’ve seen a tup and gone off the boil, if tups miss first cycle then there’s more chance of late lambers or geld sheep if you hit bad weather at tupping on second cycle, sheep still lambing late so harder to clear silage ground than lambing early, lambs need to be of size and be born to capitalise on fast spring growing grass, too many small lambs at weaning, feel like a tit when everyone else is finished and you are still arsing on.</p><p>Fell sheep now that’s a different matter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="livestock 1, post: 6204160, member: 106502"] I always used to lamb a lot of sheep from 22 April onwards and the reasons were weather and grass. The prospect the weather would be kinder and there would be a bite of grass to turn ewes and lambs onto or lamb sheep on. I now lamb everything from the first of April and my reasons are weather can often be as bad or worse at the end of April as it is at the beginning, ewes are harder to twin as they could have been in season three times before they’ve seen a tup and gone off the boil, if tups miss first cycle then there’s more chance of late lambers or geld sheep if you hit bad weather at tupping on second cycle, sheep still lambing late so harder to clear silage ground than lambing early, lambs need to be of size and be born to capitalise on fast spring growing grass, too many small lambs at weaning, feel like a tit when everyone else is finished and you are still arsing on. Fell sheep now that’s a different matter [/QUOTE]
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