Ram to ewe ratio.
- Thread starter Toms820
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- Location
- Galloway
That's plenty swap them about in 17 day's as long as they are for to work
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Maybe use a teaser to tighten lambing up?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
^this. Unless your rams can hardly get round, or are subfertile, two rams would easily cope with 120 ewes in their natural breeding season, without causing a prolonged lambing. If the ewes aren’t cycling (as many Texels won’t be in October ime) then they will only take the tup steadily. When I was tupping Texels in early October I found it was very steady unless they’d been kicked into gear with teasers.
I put ram lambs out at 1:60, older rams at 1:80+, and consider that playing on the safe side. I never have many left to conceive after a17 day cycle, with less than 5% lambing in the second cycle in most years.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
+1 for teasers, in our case we couldn't be bothered with teasers so we just grazed all the paddocks adjacent to the lane prior to tupping and left the rams on the lane to talk to them through the netting.
Same idea but different execution, nothing like ram stench to get the girls thinking of ❤
Same idea but different execution, nothing like ram stench to get the girls thinking of ❤
yeah thats plenty . well more than enough .
there arent too fat are they ?
not too early though is it ? Texels arent an early breed Rams nor ewes
clod hopper
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- Location
- SHREWSBURY, shropshire
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this year my oldest ram 'walk himself in to the ground' along the fence, lost heap of weight (don't think he was eating much at all) I used him for the repeaters. Last year I think 
I do the same
this year my oldest ram 'walk himself in to the ground' along the fence, lost heap of weight (don't think he was eating much at all) I used him for the repeaters. Last year I think 
- Location
- North wales
straying off topic a bit, but when I was living i. Snowdonia farm was 1000ft above sea level my texels were not cycling naturally Until mid/early October, now Im on Anglesey 200ft above sea level better land some are cycling as early as late august, I send the tups out without a teasing mid sept and get a nice tight lambing , the flock moved here 6 years ago and they have been creeping forward in cycles every year, tups are active now which is something I didn’t have to worry about until September before and most would have been sold by then , now they are bloody beating the hell out of each other and there is well over 6 weeks to go until sales
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
IME an escaped Welsh Mountain ram lamb can easily attend to 100 over a week!!!
Especially if the ewes are not yours!
Especially if the ewes are not yours!
- Location
- Cheshire
Yep, just goes to prove that no matter what you do. Something is always there to stop you becoming a millionaire!straying off topic a bit, but when I was living i. Snowdonia farm was 1000ft above sea level my texels were not cycling naturally Until mid/early October, now Im on Anglesey 200ft above sea level better land some are cycling as early as late august, I send the tups out without a teasing mid sept and get a nice tight lambing , the flock moved here 6 years ago and they have been creeping forward in cycles every year, tups are active now which is something I didn’t have to worry about until September before and most would have been sold by then , now they are bloody beating the hell out of each other and there is well over 6 weeks to go until sales
- Location
- Cheshire
A week?!?!?! The smaller and scrubbier the tup lamb the more the little b*****d serves per day! We shot the last one that got on us in the end. I'm not going to think about the welsh lambs we had on the mule ewe lambs! Luckily my beltex lads had been out 3 week so he only got a few. Selling 32kg fat lambs the following april was quite embarrassing. All easy lambing though! Every cloud and that!
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
You might be on to something. I know a couple of folk that use Shetland tups on their ewe hoggs. 'Shitlands' one of them called them. Said you'd come out in the morning and the fresh lambs would be buzzing about like little wasps!A week?!?!?! The smaller and scrubbier the tup lamb the more the little b*****d serves per day! We shot the last one that got on us in the end. I'm not going to think about the welsh lambs we had on the mule ewe lambs! Luckily my beltex lads had been out 3 week so he only got a few. Selling 32kg fat lambs the following april was quite embarrassing. All easy lambing though! Every cloud and that!
- Location
- Galloway
I have a field running next door of Shetland x scotch mules looking very well getting temted to try one
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You’d get lambs I suppose, but isn’t it better to get a lamb worth something, assuming you can find a breed that also doesn’t give lambing problems?
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Yes, if I was that worried about lambing ease in hoggs that I went down the Shetland/Welsh route, I'm not sure that I'd bother.
- Location
- Cheshire
Exactly, it's the fine line between ease of lambing and having a lamb that pays for rearing!
- Location
- East Sussex
Buy the best ram you can get and run them at 1:100 or more.
If the ewes are fit and ready for the tup they will easily do 100 plus in 17 days each.
If the ewes are fit and ready for the tup they will easily do 100 plus in 17 days each.
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
I tried that once and it took the ram two whole days to lower the fence by butting one of the posts and jump in with the ewes....
- Location
- Fife
I ran 1:50 with tup lambs last year (with 1 2tooth at 1:100). 90% lambed first cycle. This year those tup lambs will be 2 tooths and will run at 1:100.
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