Lambing 2018

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
I spoke to a guy a few years back who lambed 2000 over 20 days purely by using teasers and managed them to get 100 lambing everyday.

My repeats are incredibly low so probably wouldn’t be worth it, plus the repeats are lambed with the ewe lambs so isn’t a real hassle to us.

Luck of the Weather is key on those numbers though when outdoor lambing :0
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
We pretty much only use ram lambs and yearlings (which were used as ram lambs by us) the ram lambs know what their doing from the off!

@exmoor dave can you run a gang of teasers continuously for say 8 weeks on different lots of ewes every 14 days? Or would they melt to absolute FA? How many teasers per ewes? Producing my own gingemongs the rams are run at 1-30 maximum and some flocks are 1-15 so having to have more rams won’t matter as they can be in with 1 lot of ewes for 14 days, have 14 days off and then back in for 14 days again? Would this work well? PM me if it’s easier?

My Cambridge teasers run with the dry hoggs/tail end hoggets all winter, so tupping them as and when (used to be reckoned to improve future fertility:scratchhead:), then they go in with the pedigree Charollais ewes in late May/early June. They serve loads of sponged ewes in mid-July, as part of the AI program, before running with those ewes to mark any repeats. After that, they go in with the March lambing Charollais ewes & ewe lambs. They come out of those when the rams go in, get used as part of the ET program on those, then go in with the commercial ewes and ewe lambs. They come out of those in early November, to go in with the dry hoggs.....

I guess you could say that they’re some experienced dudes, and always very laid back for some reason.:cool:
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
My Cambridge teasers run with the dry hoggs/tail end hoggets all winter, so tupping them as and when (used to be reckoned to improve future fertility:scratchhead:), then they go in with the pedigree Charollais ewes in late May/early June. They serve loads of sponged ewes in mid-July, as part of the AI program, before running with those ewes to mark any repeats. After that, they go in with the March lambing Charollais ewes & ewe lambs. They come out of those when the rams go in, get used as part of the ET program on those, then go in with the commercial ewes and ewe lambs. They come out of those in early November, to go in with the dry hoggs.....

I guess you could say that they’re some experienced dudes, and always very laid back for some reason.:cool:
Sounds like nice work if you can get it :whistle::bag:

:p:p
 

sjewart

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We got off the ground on the right foot last night [emoji106]
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Green farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Lambing here finished now, not a great year, full of problems, all weather connected. I was thinking was there any positives I could take out of this year. Well after a few years of zero tolerance towards prolaspe, I realised I went through the whole campaign without a single prolapse occurrence. Only 200 ewe flock here, so now massive , but delighted with the outcome all the same !!!
 

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