- Location
- South east scotland
We call april born ewe lambs a hogg after new year until they are shorn then they are gimmerseverydays a school day,are you sure its not a ewe lamb
Sheep Scanning
- Thread starter lincolnred
- Start date
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Well they're some beltex so similar, I know how much you like to dip them!whats a hogg is that like a pig?
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Not the greatest of scans this morning but can’t do much about it now.
groups 1,3 and 4 are cross ewes, 2 is Cheviot mules
5-7 are Cheviots
groups 1,3 and 4 are cross ewes, 2 is Cheviot mules
5-7 are Cheviots
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Don’t be daft. They’re theaves once they’ve been shorn once. Tegs from new year until then, and double theaves once they’ve been shorn for the second time.
If you fellas just agreed to adopt our logical system, it would make life so much simpler. None of this gimmer/gimmer hogg/etc to confuse things.
What the hell is geld!
Geld, Barren, Eild, Yeld, Empty, Ann Widecomme,
Any more regional terms?
- Location
- Fife
Kebabs!
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
sorry to hear that. Livestock have the habit of kicking you in the goolies every so often. Right attitude to look and evaluate for next year
Thanks. Assuming rams foot caused the issue as can’t think of what else could be. Now instead of 60 ewes rearing lambs max I’m going have 40 max. Isn’t sounding like it’s important but for someone building up it’s annoying
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Even though tease them, my ewe lambs spread themselves over two and a bit cycles fairly evenly, and would still be tupping after that if I didn't want to finish lambing at some stage. Ewes bred the same way will all be 95%+ done in one cycle. My ewe lambs wouldn't be as pushed on as yours though, going from your photos. That's just ewe lambs I think.
I shall just have to keep them on and have nice 2 year olds lambing for this time or so next year
Ocm-1994
Member
- Location
- Guisborough, north yorkshire
Scanning last Friday for us went really well!
Mules
158 @ 212%
0 barren
18 singles
103 twins
37 triplets
Texels, texel X chev mule
143 @ 176%
6 barren
46 singles
87 twins
14 triplets
Overall 301 @ 195%.
Few shearlings in the continentals came back geld, hellish sheep too fit as a fiddle, always the same!! Roll on lambing
Mules
158 @ 212%
0 barren
18 singles
103 twins
37 triplets
Texels, texel X chev mule
143 @ 176%
6 barren
46 singles
87 twins
14 triplets
Overall 301 @ 195%.
Few shearlings in the continentals came back geld, hellish sheep too fit as a fiddle, always the same!! Roll on lambing
Got great results this year which was a surprise as I was expecting a “leveller” after such a good hit last year.
85 ewes
8 singles
64 Doubles
9 trips
2 barren
195%??
mix of Suffolk/chev, Suffolk/mules , Suff/tex
Charollais and Llynn
delighted with the twinning rate,@76%
85 ewes
8 singles
64 Doubles
9 trips
2 barren
195%??
mix of Suffolk/chev, Suffolk/mules , Suff/tex
Charollais and Llynn
delighted with the twinning rate,@76%
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spark_28
Member
- Location
- Western isles
- Location
- West Wales
What’s a gimmer?
here it would be:
2019 born: Ewe lamb,
2018 born: Yearling,
2017 and older: Ewe.
shearlings etc confuse me as mine are shorn as ewe lambs, “ 2 shears” to me is a yearling as they’ve been shorn twice but more importantly also lambed twice.
I like the empty name of Kebabs
my ewe lambs were slightly disappointing but most will/would be lambing before 12 months old plus mothers were all hill ewes which are slower growing/ less fertile, most were raddled and big ewe lambs which was the disappointing part, fat price couldn’t be better for sealing their fate mind!
Triplets
Singles
Geld
Total
Percentage
Was overall happy Just could have done without triplets in the hoggs
Might look into a milk machine this year
- Location
- West Wales
Any chance of wet adopting those triplets onto singles? Skinning lambs?
I had more triplets than singles due last year, circa 180 wet adoptions (even if a ewe had twins and 1 died I’d adopt) and circa 20-25 skinnings, ended the third season in a row with no pets.
Milk machines will pay for themselves this year I reckon
All outdoor lambing very rare to get wet mothering unless the singles get over cooked like last year will prob take twins off hogs but may leave triplets on this year as a bit of experiment as the 45 are all older ewes
- Location
- West Wales
Last year I left my 5+ year old triplet texelx ewes out in the field and 30 reared 89 (7 got hit by nemitadirus) so they finished/reared 82 on grass only. I had planned on culling them all but no doubt a lot are still with me as they got mixed with 30 twin ewes after 8 weeks. sacrifice older ewes and the fattest if your doing it, I tried a mule a few years ago and she died after 5 weeks leaving me 3 smaller lambs and I’d finished lambing so they grew on grass only which was still cheaper than powder (you could bury ewes then to)