- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Over 8 weeks though. Brought in according to raddle mark650 in 100x30?? Iv got a 160x35 and 200 in the f**ker
Lambing pens per hundred sheep
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Farmer Keith
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- Location
- North Cumbria
You can have too many pens, get on keeping stuff inside that really just wants to be put out. About 45 for 500 here but could certainly get away with less.
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Normally have 24 permanently set up and enough hurdles for another 10 or 12. That's lambing 150-160 indoors and another 200 outdoors at the same time. Lamb about 700 outdoors a turn later and in unfavourable weather I can easily have all my mothering pens full!
Greythundercloudys
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I have 70 pens around the outside, once they lmb on the floor then straight to a pen. Iv seen everyone full many a time with bad weather and no grass even in mid April. Alot of work. But last year with that hellish cold and snowy weather, putting a wee pair in to a pen is nice for them, instead of freezing to death.
- Location
- South Lanarkshire
we try to get them into a communal pen of about 8 as soon as we can 8 is a nice trailer load to take to outlying fields i know this sounds like planning which is not always what happens
Greythundercloudys
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We used to have a crazy system, would take maybe 15ewes with twins out to the field, lmbs on top deck, then fling them out and have to mother them up.
- Location
- South Lanarkshire
That’s what we like about the communals in there for a couple of hours mothered nae prob . If in for a wee while easy fed and checked on
- Location
- Cheshire
Same here. As soon as the navel is crisp if the weather is right they are out. Some years we don’t use all the pen hurdles. Then others we use them, the handling hurdles, pallets, bits of crap mesh I found. Every damn year is different.
- Location
- Cheshire
When Grandad was on Welsh ewes he used too put 10 families per section on the wagon, so 20 ewes per deck. Back into the field gate, lose the lot and sit on the backboard, smoke a Hamlet and when he’d finished that he would have 1/2 families too sort out. I daren’t try more than 5’s with mules. They struggle to count like the little welshies could!!
I put 25 ewes with twins on my trailer, drive into the field and chuck the lambs out the side door then release the ewes and drive off as fast as I can, iv never had a problem with them not being mothered up when I check in the afternoon. They do go from individual pens into there pens of 25 ewes at 24 hours old then kick them into the field after 2 days in there. 500 mules have 70 individual pens and can make another 25 out of prattey hurdles when it gets really busy.
My ewes are about 10 days off their due date and in a 20 acre field next to the shed from where they can come and go as they please. The field has some grass but doesn't look as green and tasty as the fields next to it. The ewes know this.
When they come into the shed to lamb in a week or so they go into a mothering pen for 24hrs then into a nursing pen in bunches for another 24hrs or so.
Then I have to get the bunch of ewes and lambs into the fields with the nice grass by walking them across the 20 acre field. Most of the ewes leg it to the gate leaving their lambs milling around or scattering. Open gate, ewes gorge themselves, then decide to come and look for their lambs after I've done a fair bit of running around herding a bunch of thick lambs through the gate. Come back to check after a few hours (especially the ditch) and usually all ewes have their lambs in tow.
Too wet to use trailer across fields.
When they come into the shed to lamb in a week or so they go into a mothering pen for 24hrs then into a nursing pen in bunches for another 24hrs or so.
Then I have to get the bunch of ewes and lambs into the fields with the nice grass by walking them across the 20 acre field. Most of the ewes leg it to the gate leaving their lambs milling around or scattering. Open gate, ewes gorge themselves, then decide to come and look for their lambs after I've done a fair bit of running around herding a bunch of thick lambs through the gate. Come back to check after a few hours (especially the ditch) and usually all ewes have their lambs in tow.
Too wet to use trailer across fields.
muleman
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Pistonbroke
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It saved dragging her anywayWe usually end up with a lot in the telehandler bucket at lambing time!