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Out of easycare, easycare x Texel and easycare x Shetland ewes. Sired by texel and double myomax easycare rams.
Don't know weights as we don't have a scale. Maybe 35kg+?
Lambing ease gestation length
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Don't know weights as we don't have a scale. Maybe 35kg+?
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I'm aiming for a highly prolific maternal shedding texel of approx 60kg.
Sounds good to me, they look real nice sheep!!
They’re half tidy sheep
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Buyer has been in touch. These ewes have had zero inputs but grass since he received them. They've scanned at 177% including 6 empties. He's also pulled them back a month, lambing start from 24 Apr 23 to 15 Mar 24.
These ewes averaged 42kg at weaning 2023. Being generous and allowing them a gain of 8kg, they'll have averaged a tupping weight of 50kg. This gives a scan efficiency of 3.5% per kg. I'm very pleased with that.
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According to the buyer these scanned at 194%, with a 99% conception. All off grass.
The Shetland ewe is a great base for a maternal composite. #MaternalEfficency.
The pressure is on for my own ewes to scan well now
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According to the buyer these scanned at 194%, with a 99% conception. All off grass.
The Shetland ewe is a great base for a maternal composite. #MaternalEfficency.
The pressure is on for my own ewes to scan well now
Hell where did you get the sires of those ewes from, must have been some serious sheep.
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Ah my bad I thought they were from Innovis
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Wonder if the Welsh gov would fund my flock that lives in Scotland?Don’t be silly. That Welsh Govt funded flock lives in Scotland these days.
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Wonder if the Welsh gov would fund my flock that lives in Scotland?
You’ll need to polish up your BSing skills and likely, knowing Welsh govt, learn to BS in Welsh.
Only relocate to Scotland after you’ve received all the money though, just to be sure.
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Home bred and stud ewes starting their walk back to the yards for scanning Wednesday.
Good clean sheep, you're not suffering with too much mud then?
Must be good management
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Light land and never in a paddock longer than 72hrs.Good clean sheep, you're not suffering with too much mud then?
Must be good management
Well done. We have no paddocks fit for 48 currently.
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2 4 and 6 tooth ewes.
All the empties are 2th that didn't take the ram last year.
2th ewes.
150 of their sisters were sold last August. The 5 empty didn't take the ram last year as ewe lambs either.
These 2 scans mean that all ewe lambs who reared lambs last year have re-bred again as 2tooth ewes. I'm really pleased about this, especially as they have run as 1 mob with the ewes since weaning '23.
This super star shetex inverdale weaned twins last year as a ewe hogg, and scanned twins again this year. Poor girl only weighed 30kg at weaning '23
2 and 4tooth ewes.
there's plenty of ram lambs to test this year. This breeding has been a struggle, with high ewe culling (mainly due to mastitis). Maybe too much texel in the mix? 
Happy with this. 2 of the empties are 2tooth ewes that didn't take as ewe lambs.
This includes the dorper X ewe lambs that were too lame to sell as store last autumn. I threw a ram in with them just to see. Pretty pleased with that as a ewe lamb breed up.
Shetlands scanned at 142% including empties. Mortality from tupping to now brings that down to 140%. I'm happy with that. It's in line with previous years.
1,590 lambs scanned. Now just to keep them alive till weaning
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What are "Cook stud ewes"? I think I recognise all the other groups from previous posts but not this one
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Bought in pure easycare ewes from the Cook family, Bedfordshire. They're the mothers of the inverdale stud ewes.