We've had quads before but never 5!
Scanned main bunch of ewes today,
30 empties (will be scanned again with some later ewes hopefully most in lamb)
190 singles
714 twins
50 trips
5 quads
1 quin
991 ewes scan 1.8 happy enough apart from the ewe with 5 in her!
Haha, thanks yea very happy in general, they always scan a lot of twins, they are a mixture of mule/greyface and belclare /suffolk cheviot ewes, hopefully closed from now on, didnt buy in anything only rams this year, father had a lot more sheep a few years back and we used to buy in a couple hundred draft cheviot and horned ewes to cross with suffolk, border leicester and belclare rams, so majority are bred that way apart from 5 jacobs that have been here a lifetime! Plan is to keep breeding from within the flock with belclare and north country cheviot rams which were crossed with suffolk belclare ewes this year, sounds complicated but will hopefully simplify the system from now onI expect everyone will have a laugh or wince at your expense about the Quinn and Quads but what a terrific twinning rate. 72% twins is a great result and you should be very pleased. Highest we've managed is 67% but then we do generally scan higher and therefore have more triplets (and problems). Oh and don't worry about the Quin - she'll find a way of dying before she lambs
What breed and are you a closed flock?
I expect everyone will have a laugh or wince at your expense about the Quinn and Quads but what a terrific twinning rate. 72% twins is a great result and you should be very pleased. Highest we've managed is 67% but then we do generally scan higher and therefore have more triplets (and problems). Oh and don't worry about the Quin - she'll find a way of dying before she lambs
What breed and are you a closed flock?
@beltextexel is that some tercrosset bred hoggs?
Yeah, I said something like that260 sets of 3. Bugger that.
Second weekIs that second week? Or second cycle?