TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

[firther]

Merry Christmas nithy hope it's a en mate

 

[primmiemoo]

Merry Christmas! May every single sheep stay hooves downward, and out of trouble

 

[JHC]

anything that gets a lamb that is born ,up and suckled when you find it!

 

[AftonShepherd]

All the best Niths, and all your followers

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Yes all the best and keep up the good work posting in 2022

 

[Nithsdale]

Scanned here today. Nice weather for it, grounds soggy but stayed dry all day.

The drought has hurt most groups - pretty disappointed with the early ewes and feared the worst for the rest of the day... The Hill ewes were running grass on peat ground which thrives in drought so they've exceeded all expectations and I'm really chuffed with their scan - it's pretty close to perfection!

Thought the Gimmers would have done better but I'm quietly happy enough with them.

The last group was a cock up. The ewes and hoggs jumped a dyke and got mixed this morning just as I headed to start fetching them in and I didn't have time to sort them out before scanner coming... There's 58 ewe hoggs in that group and I kept note as we scanned. I make it about 128% for the hoggs. And the ewes around 176%

Not looking forward to the "lamb with no head"

Last year's scan for comparison. I feel I've done well this year considering the 58 hoggs...

 

[Bob the beef]

I would think you should be chuffed with that for an outdoor March lambing. 350 twins and only 46 triplets

 

[sheepwise]

Duncan or David?

 

[Nithsdale]

David comes to me.

400 twins, 200 singles. 0 empty, 0 triplets and 0 quads would be perfection

 

[sheepwise]

David comes to me.

400 twins, 200 singles. 0 empty, 0 triplets and 0 quads would be perfection

Thought it would be Duncan as he loves pointing out all the anomalies

 

[Nithsdale]

Never had Duncan (he used to shear our ewes 30odd year ago for dad). I'm good friends with David so just message him and sort out what's doing

I was impressing David with my skills reading the screen - I was telling my nephew what each ewe was having before David marked them. I had a bit of struggle with very late embryos as they're so small, but I'd get about 70-80% (of the whole day!) right

 

[yellowbelly]

I was impressing David with my skills reading the screen - I was telling my nephew what each ewe was having before David marked them. I had a bit of struggle with very late embryos as they're so small, but I'd get about 70-80% (of the whole day!) right

D'ya spot the one with no head??

It's all muck and mystery to me - I can only tell if they're in lamb or empty.
I suppose it's harder when you're looking over his shoulder 'cos you've no idea which way round the probe is so you're never sure which cross section is on the screen

 

[Nithsdale]

D'ya spot the one with no head??

It's all muck and mystery to me - I can only tell if they're in lamb or empty.
I suppose it's harder when you're looking over his shoulder 'cos you've no idea which way round the probe is so you're never sure which cross section is on the screen

No I couldn't see the missing head, he did explain what he was seeing though. I can only see how many lambs there are - you're looking for the black circles (embryo/sacks) - not if there's anything wrong with them. I find it really interesting

 

[yellowbelly]

No I couldn't see the missing head, he did explain what he was seeing though. I can only see how many lambs there are - you're looking for the black circles (embryo/sacks) - not if there's anything wrong with them. I find it really interesting

IMHO, it's the best 50p (or whatever they're charging us this year) that you spend on sheep.

Pays for itself in what you don't feed the singles in no time and vastly reduces/vitually eliminates big single lambing problems.

 

[Nithsdale]

IMHO, it's the best 50p (or whatever they're charging us this year) that you spend on sheep.

Pays for itself in what you don't feed the singles in no time and vastly reduces/vitually eliminates big single lambing problems.

Hmm I'll be halving my singles feed bill, by feeding them this year instead of just giving them buckets...
You'll still get big singles if a flush of grass comes at the wrong time.

But aye, I'm a recent convert to scanning and I wouldn't go back now

 

[Nithsdale]

Slow to it but Happy New Year to you all and I hope 2022 is a good one.

Spent last night at a close friends, feeling a little tender today

 

[primmiemoo]

Aren't we all, Niths!

Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[Nithsdale]

What a way to start the New Year

Was knocking stobs in for barbing this stretch of dyke which is very low on the field side... well the ground moved with a stob and stones gave way we get a dyker to do most of our work but there's nothing else needing done so decided to tackle it myself. I don't mind dyking, but I'm not the best at it and it's a bigger slap than I'd normally attempt

Started on Monday, finished today. Just doing 1hr - 1hr 30 stints

Top line is a little low at the top end but I'm happy with my work..

But I'm not sure what they were playing at when it was built first time round - I've used about 1/3 less stone

 

[Bill dog]

You’ll be able to bottom 3 gateways with the spare stone . Quality work

 

[Anymulewilldo]

IMHO, it's the best 50p (or whatever they're charging us this year) that you spend on sheep.

Pays for itself in what you don't feed the singles in no time and vastly reduces/vitually eliminates big single lambing problems.

Finding the barrens early pays a good chunk of our scanning I reckon. Then getting the singles onto just haylage and the odd mineral lick.