Running twins and singles as one lot

[Al R]

If only u didn’t live so close to the equator !

Quicker for you to get to @Tim W than me to be fair.. plus I’m very new to the shedding job so wouldn’t want to sell yet, I do have 30 ram lambs entire mind and will be narrowing it down in a few weeks. Tim, I still need to phone you!

 

[Tim W]

Cheers! Would be worth a nosey !

Glasgow to Bristol £50 return
Pick you up if you fancy a day trip (fit 4 passengers in the truck if you can find any others keen)

 

[Bill dog]

Let me juggle some dates about with her who must be obeyed and I’ll pm you !

 

[unlacedgecko]

Let me juggle some dates about with her who must be obeyed and I’ll pm you !

Let me know the dates please, I'd like to tag along.

 

[Bill dog]

Apologies for the dreadful veer off thread ! Feel free to carry on about twins and singles in the same field !

 

[Farmer_Joe]

i run 1 lot, 275-300 if i separate them i tend to just find lambs stuck wrong side of fence so after first worming open all gates up (when there big enough to find their mothers) hard when you get em in but if required i just shut em off into lots then do smaller lots each day fore opening it all up again.

 

[neilo]

i run 1 lot, 275-300 if i separate them i tend to just find lambs stuck wrong side of fence so after first worming open all gates up (when there big enough to find their mothers) hard when you get em in but if required i just shut em off into lots then do smaller lots each day fore opening it all up again.

If you run them in one mob, and have separate fields (needing gates to be left open), then why not rotate them round the fields with the gates closed? Far better for the grassland and the sheep, than letting them run the whole lot.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I have big 5.5 acre paddocks here and even two 9 acre ones - see @neilo, I am watching like a hawk

The main issue with my piddly sheep flock is they just can't eat enough in a day, if I ran them by themselves they are basically set stocked in a paddock and that does nothing any good - just a worm burden and a weed haven, and I don't worm or spray so.... in with the cattle they go, and it resolves both potential problems in one hit.

I take our lack of Tb and regulation absolutely for granted - I shouldn't, but it is my reality.
It is, however, pretty cool to see a seriously large beast licking a newborn lamb clean while mum licks the twin!
I just use a two wire fence when lambs are about, so the lambs can creep ahead, but it makes the daily head count a nightmare when the grass is over the ewe's backs

In December I just get the whole lot in the yards and put the sheep up the race, lambs come out, get crutched and go on the truck.
Cattle get weighed and everyone is happy..

 

[JD-Kid]

used to lamb them mixed just split them from scanning to set stocking then boxed them for lambing etc
found less miss mothered lambs and better %
now my idea and i may be wrong but here goes
some ewes singles each year other twins for life kinda simple there
now the twin single types my thought is a twin will be ok haveing a single a long term singe with a twin may only take one
mixing them i think the odd auntie picks up the lost lambs

 

[Woolly]

As per vet's advice, we group lambs by age rather than singles/twins/trips. And keep the younger ones on the cleaner grass.

Begs question as to what age they can be mixed up?

 

[hendrebc]

As per vet's advice, we group lambs by age rather than singles/twins/trips. And keep the younger ones on the cleaner grass.

Begs question as to what age they can be mixed up?

That what ive done i have 2 mobs of older and younger lambs instead of 4 mobs of older singles, older twins, younger singles and younger twins. 3 mobs if you include the ewe lambs and triplet mob, 4 with the dry hoggs, 6 with the rams. Still less than 8 sounds like a lot then
I usually put them together at weaning but i might put them together a bit sooner this year becsuse the younger ones are about the same size as the older ones havig not had shite weather for the first month of their lives not till after shearng though gsthering in mobs of several hundred at a time every day to do some would get even more depressing than it is now

 

[Farmer_Joe]

If you run them in one mob, and have separate fields (needing gates to be left open), then why not rotate them round the fields with the gates closed? Far better for the grassland and the sheep, than letting them run the whole lot.

ha ha never feels like i have enough grass to start doing this , i do it with lambs once meadows are cut and rotate them when spaned between 2 lots. now meadows are shut out feels like the only just enough grass but to be fair you have to shut them off a bit to get the new growth!

when it rains and starts growing again i will have to give it a go!