Scanning 2021

[Estate fencing.]

Have just scanned my late lambing ewes. 302 mule and welsh cross Suffolk did 187% with 3 empty. 100 welsh did 121% with 15 empty and 87 many lleyn yearling with 10 mules did 178% with 7 empty mules. All the first group and lleyn are toxovaxed but none of the welsh or the 10 mule yearlings (bought in late) weren’t, so looks like I dodged a bullet by toxo the others.

 

[primmiemoo]

142% for flock B hoggs. One triplet

 

[Anymulewilldo]

185 ewe lambs this morning, 112 Cheviot Mules, 73 NoE mules ex Lazonby.
110 singles
65 twins
2 triplets (both in Cheviot Mules)
8 empty
133% all in

all too the Rouge tup

probably one of the best ewe lamb scans we’ve had for a while. I have no wish too hit 160% again with them like we did a few years back.

got the Scotch mules too so on Wednesday morning.

 

[Estate fencing.]

185 ewe lambs this morning, 112 Cheviot Mules, 73 NoE mules ex Lazonby.
110 singles
65 twins
2 triplets (both in Cheviot Mules)
8 empty
133% all in

all too the Rouge tup

probably one of the best ewe lamb scans we’ve had for a while. I have no wish too hit 160% again with them like we did a few years back.

got the Scotch mules too so on Wednesday morning.
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They look fit.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

They look fit.

Thanks, they are in good nick. On a good ewe lamb spot though. Soon as grass gets short he’s straight out with top notch haylage bales for them

 

[Anymulewilldo]

94 Scotch mule ewe lambs
49 singles
35 twins
10 empty

all too the beltex

happy with the lamb numbers but disappointed with the ten barrens. Too fit at tupping perhaps?
Or the stumpy little beltex got bored of trying too reach?

 

[Skintagain]

94 Scotch mule ewe lambs
49 singles
35 twins
10 empty

all too the beltex

happy with the lamb numbers but disappointed with the ten barrens. Too fit at tupping perhaps?
Or the stumpy little beltex got bored of trying too reach?

Too warm in Cheshire compared to scotland

 

[z.man]

94 Scotch mule ewe lambs
49 singles
35 twins
10 empty

all too the beltex

happy with the lamb numbers but disappointed with the ten barrens. Too fit at tupping perhaps?
Or the stumpy little beltex got bored of trying too reach?

Scottish girls maybe are just not as easy as the NoE types .......talking sheep mind

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Scottish girls maybe are just not as easy as the NoE types .......talking sheep mind

I knew I should have put a couple of Rouge with them. The ladies can’t resist the French charm!!

 

[muleman]

94 Scotch mule ewe lambs
49 singles
35 twins
10 empty

all too the beltex

happy with the lamb numbers but disappointed with the ten barrens. Too fit at tupping perhaps?
Or the stumpy little beltex got bored of trying too reach?

Scotch ewes not as prolific as the swaledale, not by a long way.

 

[primmiemoo]

Would have expected the accuracy of scanning for flock A to have improved as lambing goes on, but it's still very poor. Thank goodness for years of experience clocked up before regular scanning, because it's almost as much effort per ewe as it was back then. Lambing %age feels lower than registered by the operator, too. Glad he couldn't do flock B!

 

[Woolless]

Scotch ewes not as prolific as the swaledale, not by a long way.

It seems to me that Swales are ridiculously prolific for hill ewes?

 

[muleman]

It seems to me that Swales are ridiculously prolific for hill ewes?

Yes, seem to be getting more and more prolific, quite a lot getting 200% scans now

 

[Woolless]

Yes, seem to be getting more and more prolific, quite a lot getting 200% scans now

That's crazy for supposedly hill sheep and probably too much for most systems, really!

 

[Estate fencing.]

That's crazy for supposedly hill sheep and probably too much for most systems, really!

And it makes mules that scan at 240%, which is ok for bragging down the pub but no good to try and lamb.

 

[muleman]

And it makes mules that scan at 240%, which is ok for bragging down the pub but no good to try and lamb.

Makes a lot of work when they are having litters....over a quarter of our ewes are havibg 3s and 4s this time

 

[neilo]

That's crazy for supposedly hill sheep and probably too much for most systems, really!

They surely wouldn’t be scanning anywhere near that on a hill though, without the management & nutrition that some mule breeders are putting in to maximise breeding sales?

 

[Woolless]

They surely wouldn’t be scanning anywhere near that on a hill though, without the management & nutrition that some mule breeders are putting in to maximise breeding sales?

No but if they are getting big scans like that when fed a bit better, I'd be surprised if they weren't scanning too many at their home farm.

 

[Nithsdale]

They surely wouldn’t be scanning anywhere near that on a hill though, without the management & nutrition that some mule breeders are putting in to maximise breeding sales?

Been plenty comments on here in the past they're giving too many twins when ran on hill (flushed in better hill parks/inbye) - too few singles to go back to the fells and too many twins for the limited better ground for the summer

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

There's been sheds put up presumably by NE to house Swales to keep them off the fells. If not they're sent away for the winter. I should think that is changing them and combined with the current fashion for them is not helping production of good mules from Swales