Scanning 2017-2018

[Jameshenry]

View attachment 627180

Column 1,highlander x Welsh and white mule mix.
Column 2,aberfield x highlander x.
Column 3,Llandovery type Welsh.
Column 4,ewes,mix of highlander x and mules.
Column 5,highlander x Welsh.

Going to be busy with the triplets.

You must be happy with that scan

 

[James169]

Scanned ewes last week.
203 scanned
5 empty. (One from Feb lambers)
27 singles
142 doubles
29 triples

Had 4 empty in the February lambers scanned them again 3 from 4 in lamb so only 5 empty from 331 scanned.

 

[Yale]

View attachment 627180

Column 1,highlander x Welsh and white mule mix yearlings.
Column 2,aberfield x highlander x yearlings.
Column 3,Llandovery type Welsh.
Column 4,ewes,mix of highlander x and mules.
Column 5,highlander x Welsh.

Going to be busy with the triplets.

You must be happy with that scan

I feel unsure at the moment as we have never had that many triplets.

Yes I am very pleased with our best ever scanning.

Interesting how the Aberfield x seemed to underperform relatively,quite a high rate of empties.

 

[Jameshenry]

I feel unsure at the moment as we have never had that many triplets.

Yes I am very pleased with our best ever scanning.

Interesting how the Aberfield x seemed to underperform relatively,quite a high rate of empties.

Better too many than not enough ! My scanning guy said he went to a farm a few weeks ago and 40% of the ewes were empty !

 

[Yale]

Better too many than not enough ! My scanning guy said he went to a farm a few weeks ago and 40% of the ewes were empty !

Yikes!

 

[bobajob]

Some real stories going around. Feel for some of these farmers.

Spoke to scanning man briefly last night, he didn’t say how big the farm was but he scanned one lot/ farm and they were 20%

 

[Purli R]

scanned on Wednesday, 515 scanned, 200 multiples (twins and triplets) 72 empty and the rest singles. Worst scan we've ever had. Had a vet up for tb reading today on the cattle so had them take blood from 6 empties to make sure the bolus we gave them has worked. Some of the shearling ewes look to have not cycled at all. Have 40 or so mules that helped keep the lamb numbers up a bit. Considering going down the route of hacking enough swale ewes to keep ourselves in mules our even trying a few lleyn ewes to see what they are like.

Was going to suggest fluke,any ticks on your moor? could that have an effect? Keep us posted on test results

 

[Spartacus]

Was going to suggest fluke,any ticks on your moor? could that have an effect? Keep us posted on test results

Plenty of ticks but none on them that ate visible, certainly not in the numbers that they'd be doing damage. Dysect and spot on them regularly.

 

[Alan]

Had a disappointing scan here. 5% of the flock empty. Scanned 190% including the empties and 200% exactly with them out. Happy enough with the overall percentage just not happy with so many empty ewes.

 

[neilo]

Interesting how the Aberfield x seemed to underperform relatively,quite a high rate of empties.

Is 190% from yearlings not high enough?

In a relatively small number like that (61?) a couple of those empties being in lamb would have hiked the %age nearer the others. The empties could just have been bad luck, as much as genetics.

190% from Aberfields is pretty high from some of the stories I've heard.

 

[ewefool]

Scanned today mules 76 2 empty 11 singles 51 twins 12 triplets 196%. Blackies 130 5 empty 50 singles 72 twins 3 triplets 155% . Pretty happy both groups about 10% up on last year.

 

[Al R]

Interesting how the Aberfield x seemed to underperform relatively,quite a high rate of empties.

Hardly surprising... I’m glad my last surviving AF ram (complete broker at 5/6 year old?) is going as a cull today. 9/12 of the empties this year are his daughters - and the AF x welsh never went any more than 10% of our total ewe flock. Last year the only ones that aborted pre lambing were AF blood.
If it was 10 ewes and not 100ish ewes like it is then every AF x ewe on the farm would be culled too.

 

[Bill dog]

Just got the ewe lambs scanned. Mixed bag of chev/tex , lleyns and Romney’s. 135 scanned.
0 - 39
1- 65
2- 31
94 %. That’ll do . The yells would normally be kept, but no grass , so they will be off to the market on Monday!

 

[blacksheepcontracting]

Scanned this am. Group of 50/50 Romneys and highlanders

O - 11 (2 torwen ewe lambs, just making sure)
1 - 31
2 - 126
3 - 32

Total 200

189%

Or 191% if you take out the torwens that jumped a fence to visit a ram over tupping

Chuffed to bits as this our first scanning with our own sheep and it’s bang on what we wanted

 

[cotswoldcs]

Finished scanning our ewes yesterday - 183% which I'm happy enough with. We've increased the flock so have a lot of young ewes going to the ram for the first time. Ewes are Mule and NZ Texel x Mule.

 

[Woolless]

Finished scanning our ewes yesterday - 183% which I'm happy enough with. We've increased the flock so have a lot of young ewes going to the ram for the first time. Ewes are Mule and NZ Texel x Mule.

View attachment 629060

Bloody good scan, that!

 

[Top Tip.]

Scanned on Saturday
510 cheviot ewes
0 20
1 118
2 341
3. 31
Quite happy tad too many yeld but they were scanned at 72 days so there will be a few of them in lamb. 175%

 

[Spartacus]

As an update on our ewes, bloods showed the bolus had worked as intended, suggested worms (the dead one had a mid range worm burden). Going to worm the empties today and get muck to egg count to be sure that's a problem, will get samples to count the in lamb ones but will most likely hold off worming them until we are giving hept in March and give them a white drench at fluke level to cover worms and fluke (unless they have a high burden).

 

[Sheepfog]

Scanned the ewes today. Maybe too many triplets!

Pure Suffolk and Charollais ewes 229%

Pure Suffolk, Charollais and Aberfield cross ewe lambs 139%

 

[Boydvalley]

Scanned the ewes today. Maybe too many triplets!

Pure Suffolk and Charollais ewes 229%

Pure Suffolk, Charollais and Aberfield cross ewe lambs 139%

That's some result. Had that before, not too keen to repeat, what's your plan for the orphans.

My results
270 mule and mulextexel 194% with no empties, must have got the culling right for once

91 yearlings and ewe lambs 148% 5 empty mostly ewe lambs
Absolutely chuffed