In lamb ewe trade

[valtraman]

What’s in lamb ewes making ? I’ve too many triplets thinking I should try sell some but would any body buy them ? Scotch mule gimmers

 

[Werzle]

Ewes carrying triplets been making about £125

 

[An ancient git]

Lamb them . Feed like hell and leave lambs on ewes , incl creep to lambs . Then do the costings at the end ..... They will seriously pay , if you do it right ..... And they're not old ewes !

 

[neilo]

Lamb them . Feed like hell and leave lambs on ewes , incl creep to lambs . Then do the costings at the end ..... They will seriously pay , if you do it right ..... And they're not old ewes !

Alternatively, let the ewes rear twins properly on well managed grass, spending the money you’d have thrown at them in concs/creep on rearing the lambs artificially (c.£48/hd to finished if kept indoors on creep, cheaper if an option to turn out at 25-30kg and forget about for a few months), and have fewer ewes with mastitis & fewer runty lambs?

Each to there own though.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

With Cade lambs making £30 on the pre-loved website I would lamb down the triplets get them going then pitch the weakest one for 20 o r 30 quid and let her rear twins ....... however they might all be scanned as 3s but some will lose one or two .

 

[Mc115reed]

Bought 180 in last couple of weeks averaging 190% in total the better ewes were £115 and the Welsh crosses £95 a life, at the minute I got a bargain but I’ll not know I got a bargin until they start lambing... market reports showing inlamb ewes making up too £170 for big strong ewes

 

[Ysgythan]

Alternatively, let the ewes rear twins properly on well managed grass, spending the money you’d have thrown at them in concs/creep on rearing the lambs artificially (c.£48/hd to finished if kept indoors on creep, cheaper if an option to turn out at 25-30kg and forget about for a few months), and have fewer ewes with mastitis & fewer runty lambs?

Each to there own though.

80kg of lamb under one ewe at 8 weeks doesn’t happen any other way. The main problem we’ve had with pure Texels rearing their own triplets is getting them back up to condition for tupping. They can turn to the tup very late if you don’t and you’ve got an issue the next year about late tupping as well then.

Mind the man with no runts and no mastitis - he’s a liar. They aren’t confined to triplets though.

 

[andybk]

one of my smaller pure charollais came in with sore foot very thin (mentally marked to go asap ) , lambed a triplet 2 weeks later , left them all on (indoors) and topped up one with bottle for about 10 days kept close eye on others , 6 weeks later all reared evenly and on creep , just had first hep dose , should come back at about £80 + a piece in a few weeks ,)plus the ewe) was worth doing ,But if busy would have been difficult