- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Remember that some people keep ewes that can actually lamb themselves.
But yes, I won’t have it dragging on either.
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- Thread starter Kernowkid
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Remember that some people keep ewes that can actually lamb themselves.
But yes, I won’t have it dragging on either.
I can assure we I work somewhere else (3 days for someone and 500 ewes for someone else as well as running 400 ewes and 800 dry sheep myself.)You have it wrong if you think you have to sit with sheep 24 hours a day to lamb the last 20. They do it themselves and I would much rather have 30 more lambs at the end then have to replace of load of empty ewes.
I don’t have 20 sheep left at the end of lambing that could pop any time in the next month too have that problem... but I certainly wouldn’t be going to work for 12 hours a day 7 days a week in the hope that they don’t get into a mess while I’m gone ... and I wouldn’t want too land my boss in the sh!t either by wanting too leave in the middle of a job because Iv had a phone call that there’s a ewe running round with a lambs head dangling out of its fanny[emoji849] no thankyou not for me
Isn't that massive for swales?
It makes me nervous for these big scanning's until I get mine done, I hate the wait for scanning time.
irish dom
Member
There are some great scans here but also some very ordinary ones with big overfat ewes. Lambs were traded earlier and sheep got too heavy pre tupping.
muleman
Member
Yes its too many really, over a quarter had triplets....but better that way than geld i suppose!
Yes its not great waiting for scanning, worst when you are gathering up for scanning and there is a ewe a tupping!
Aspiring Peasants
Member
- Location
- North Pennines
Scanned 102 March lambing mostly beltex and beltex x texel at 195%. Hope main group of April lambers do the same
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Yes its too many really, over a quarter had triplets....but better that way than geld i suppose!
Yes its not great waiting for scanning, worst when you are gathering up for scanning and there is a ewe a tupping!
i assume swale x mules not straight out Swales?
- Location
- Kelso, Scotland
Small group of thin Tex ewes and Suff x gimmers did 173%. Thought they would do less with their condition so I’m pleased with that
muleman
Member
They are pure swaledale ewes in lamb to the bluefaced leicester
ridiculous scan so. Fair play
- Location
- West Wales
900 last week with me, mix of mules, Texels, exlana’s and welsh plus 60 ewe lambs in that, 19 empty ( mostly reabsorbed or lost) and 180% average, nothing higher than 192
10% triplets. Very happy with it!! And hopefully the rest scanning next week will be just as pleasingheard of someone locally with 215% and their going for sale in a week as it was too high
Ours were : Borders 200(250 last year), zwartbles 200(235 last year) Leicester longwools 190(150 last year), whitefaced woodlands 170(180 last year), Lincoln longwools 140 (200 last year), manx 150, portlands 120(100 last year), norfolks 110(168 last year), Teeswaters 160(200 last year), greyface dartmoor 150 (200 last yea and crossbreed 140.
6 empty overall so can't really complain, we're only low triple figures
6 empty overall so can't really complain, we're only low triple figures
I had 400 mules last year that did 240%. It made for a hard lambing (on my own) with so many triplets. Ended up with 120 pet lambs.
I scanned 500 nc mules that I shepherd this week, 400 ewes did 228% and 100 theaves did 201%. Just 4 empty, very happy because I lost my winter keep for this mob so have been on beet spread across the grass since early December and I didn't know if some had reabsorbed there lambs.
Most well be taken off and go onto the feeder, will probably leave 15 or so on big fit ewes with plenty of milk, then feed these ewes.