Scanning

[unlacedgecko]

There is something a miss there. It could be copper. What breed are they? Welsh mule types?

Improved/Tallybont Welsh. Ideal scan would be 120% for these.

A group of 2 tooths of the same breed scanned at 107% with 7% empty.

Apparently the scanning date is a bit early and the empties will be rescanned in a month.

 

[livestock 1]

Improved/Tallybont Welsh. Ideal scan would be 120% for these.

A group of 2 tooths of the same breed scanned at 107% with 7% empty.

Apparently the scanning date is a bit early and the empties will be rescanned in a month.

Oh sorry so hill improved types scan not a disaster after all

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Scanned yesterday, happy enough, 174 percent, not many triplets and not many yeld, they are in great order this year, just have to keep them ticking along.

 

[cotswoldcs]

Worst scanning result ever here, although not as disappointed as I expected.

0 - 23 (2.4%)
1 - 237 (25.1%)
2 - 631 (66.7%)
3 - 55 (5.8%)

total - 946 ewes (176%)

Too many singles but pleased with twinning rate and low numbers of triplets. Ewes are Mule and NZ Texel x

 

[Skintagain]

Worst scanning result ever here, although not as disappointed as I expected.

0 - 23 (2.4%)
1 - 237 (25.1%)
2 - 631 (66.7%)
3 - 55 (5.8%)

total - 946 ewes (176%)

Too many singles but pleased with twinning rate and low numbers of triplets. Ewes are Mule and NZ Texel x

I honestly wouldn’t be disappointed at that especially with the year they have had and it will save having to feed them as hard in a very expensive year.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

That seems a great scan to me, 55 triplets, happy days, my scanner told me that a place with 400 ewes had 150 triplets in his scan, hellish dayz.

 

[Al R]

That seems a great scan to me, 55 triplets, happy days, my scanner told me that a place with 400 ewes had 150 triplets in his scan, hellish dayz.

What would others do in that scenario, I know what I would do

 

[unlacedgecko]

What would others do in that scenario, I know what I would do

Depends on the breed and when they’re lambing.

I’d be tempted to lamb them outside and let them get on with it.

 

[neilo]

What would others do in that scenario, I know what I would do

I’d have a bunch on the machine and almost every ewe in the fields rearing twins. That’s just what I did do when we ran Cambridge crosses, with 100 Cade lambs indoors and only about a dozen ewes rearing singles, from a flock of 550.

Not sure I’d want to artificially rear 100 cades if @Greythundercloudys auctioneer friend is right with his lamb price predictions, but at £60-70/hd I would.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

He said they were on a mostly arable place in fife, it will be a headache as he didn't have many singles. I'm still hoping my friends outlook is so wrong, lv alway thought shepherdess reared lambs die in debt. But maybe that's me doing it wrong.

 

[neilo]

He said they were on a mostly arable place in fife, it will be a headache as he didn't have many singles. I'm still hoping my friends outlook is so wrong, lv alway thought shepherdess reared lambs die in debt. But maybe that's me doing it wrong.

Lambs done well on a proper machine cost just short of £50/hd, if kept inside and finished on ad-lib pellets at 40kg, by my fag packet calculations and allowing for the odd loss. Sheperdess type machines would obviously attract a higher labour cost, but I don't know if they perform as well or not. I certainly wouldn't want top be trying to rear 100 on anything like a shepherdess.

 

[primmiemoo]

What would others do in that scenario, I know what I would do

Wot, no quads or quins!
Tsssk! Easy peasy.

In reality, a heap of hard, skilled work. Head down and keep at it. Buy/hire some good rearing kit, and do as @neilo advises.

Once a sound system was in place, the Cambridges and crosses were usually not a problem. Lively viable lambs, brim full ofthe right sort of Bloodymindium.

 

[hally]

We reckon to clear £30 from machine reared lambs (excluding labour) as they av generally over £80. We used to regularly scan over 200 triplets before we eased the ewe numbers down, just need a competent wife, a milk machine, row of lamb adopters and plenty of buckets of warm water.......
Not necessarily in that order

 

[Estate fencing.]

That seems a great scan to me, 55 triplets, happy days, my scanner told me that a place with 400 ewes had 150 triplets in his scan, hellish dayz.

i had a bunch of 300 ewes last year that had 130 triplets and 15 quads. In the end had 120 on the machine. And almost every ewe went out with a double. I was hard work on my own though.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Nice one, electricfencer, l hope your hard work payed off.

 

[ilyria]

Woodlands scanned 112.5% no empties, Portlands at 100% Norfolks at 100% inc 4 empties. Could have been worse but hoped for better.

 

[DB67]

Worst scanning result ever here, although not as disappointed as I expected.

0 - 23 (2.4%)
1 - 237 (25.1%)
2 - 631 (66.7%)
3 - 55 (5.8%)

total - 946 ewes (176%)

Too many singles but pleased with twinning rate and low numbers of triplets. Ewes are Mule and NZ Texel x

2.4% eild and “worst” should not be in sentence.

I and a lot of others would love to have that few eild sheep.

 

[blackieman83]

What are the woodland sheep? Any pics?

 

[Ciderman8961]

Scanned mule shearlings today.
Single 102
Twin 379
Triplet 55
191% happy enough with that.
Doing ewes on Friday

 

[Aspiring Peasant]

Lambs done well on a proper machine cost just short of £50/hd, if kept inside and finished on ad-lib pellets at 40kg, by my fag packet calculations and allowing for the odd loss. Sheperdess type machines would obviously attract a higher labour cost, but I don't know if they perform as well or not. I certainly wouldn't want top be trying to rear 100 on anything like a shepherdess.

These figures agree almost exactly with what we worked out this year. We reckoned excluding labour they cost £47 to return around £80. Couldn't be done here though without a competent wife!