Can I do this? I have 24 in-lamb (I hope) ewes and 21 ram lambs and they are all running out of grass. However, I have 7 acres of stubble turnips. Can I run all of these sheep together? Advice please.
running pregnant ewes with ram lambs
- Thread starter Mutfordwood
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sticky
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- Near Stratford upon Avon
I would think that the lambs would run the ewes into the ground. Also the lambs will go backwards and possibly scrap, imo.
devonbrion1998
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- Radnage Buckinhamshire
I think those Ram lambs will be on the go all day and the condition of them will just fall off, even if the ewes are in lamb and not cycling
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- West Wales
Sell the ram lambs as stores
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- Montgomeryshire
I’d have no concerns doing it, if it made life easier for a small bunch. If you leave the rams with ewes normally, they will get as fat as butter once there aren’t any cycling ewes to chase, so no different with ram lambs, certainly as the season goes off and their hormones drop off.
However, do you want their diets to be the same? For not a lot of extra cost on electric fencing, you could run them as two separate mobs from either side of the field easily enough. Water isn’t an issue unless you are in the habit of giving them expensive dry food too.
However, do you want their diets to be the same? For not a lot of extra cost on electric fencing, you could run them as two separate mobs from either side of the field easily enough. Water isn’t an issue unless you are in the habit of giving them expensive dry food too.