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TexX ewes - which Tup to use?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nithsdale" data-source="post: 5422600" data-attributes="member: 17508"><p>No pictures but I speaned my hill lambs last week. 186 ewes with 314 lambs (very, very pleased with that considering the spring).</p><p></p><p>Disappointed that only 136 were ewe lambs though, with 178 wedders <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>It has rained every single day here since the start of August... these lambs were out of pour-on cover. The pens got messy as it came heavy cloud bursts whilst working with them. I got the lambs home and into the only 2 spare fields I have... left to settle with the intention first dry day, they'll be in and sprayed. First dry day was a full week later!! They are all sprayed now, but my hand was definitely forced - the 24hrs upto spraying I have hand shorn and sprayed nearly 20 struck lambs <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>The ewes are also getting struck - clean ewes too!! We never put pour-on on our ewes, other than maybe if one is very dirty as I'm doing lambs. Most years I'll use 20l of pour on for 800 lambs and and 750 ewes/gimmers... I've bought 55l so far. But, true to August so far, it's chucking it down here so god knows when I will get them sprayed.</p><p></p><p>It is a hell of a year, I'm getting a bit sick of it if I'm honest.</p><p></p><p>My lambs are looking very good though, and the ewes are fleshing up well after having been thin since lambing.</p><p>There's not as many ChevX ewe lambs as I'd have liked... or at least they aren't standing out. But they mostly look pretty smart. I will try and get pictures of them in another couple weeks, when I have them in again for Dectomax injection, fluke dose and tagging before they go up to the windfarm for the winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nithsdale, post: 5422600, member: 17508"] No pictures but I speaned my hill lambs last week. 186 ewes with 314 lambs (very, very pleased with that considering the spring). Disappointed that only 136 were ewe lambs though, with 178 wedders :( It has rained every single day here since the start of August... these lambs were out of pour-on cover. The pens got messy as it came heavy cloud bursts whilst working with them. I got the lambs home and into the only 2 spare fields I have... left to settle with the intention first dry day, they'll be in and sprayed. First dry day was a full week later!! They are all sprayed now, but my hand was definitely forced - the 24hrs upto spraying I have hand shorn and sprayed nearly 20 struck lambs :( The ewes are also getting struck - clean ewes too!! We never put pour-on on our ewes, other than maybe if one is very dirty as I'm doing lambs. Most years I'll use 20l of pour on for 800 lambs and and 750 ewes/gimmers... I've bought 55l so far. But, true to August so far, it's chucking it down here so god knows when I will get them sprayed. It is a hell of a year, I'm getting a bit sick of it if I'm honest. My lambs are looking very good though, and the ewes are fleshing up well after having been thin since lambing. There's not as many ChevX ewe lambs as I'd have liked... or at least they aren't standing out. But they mostly look pretty smart. I will try and get pictures of them in another couple weeks, when I have them in again for Dectomax injection, fluke dose and tagging before they go up to the windfarm for the winter. [/QUOTE]
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