well it’s that time a year again where the boys get there 17days of fun!! teaser went in today on an early lambing bunch, he’ll see 10 days of them before the boys with live rounds go in. So get your pics out and share the fun this season I’ll put some pics when raddle goes on see how keen they really are..
Tupping 2018
- Thread starter trewern
- Start date
- Location
- West Wales
My early flock have almost finished all being raddled, even the BFL’s.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The Suffolk's go out to 'self tease' 
in a week's time
in a week's time
- Location
- West Wales
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Crikey I’ve still got six and a half weeks till my first tups go to the girls!!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I’m looking at sorting a scanner for my first lot, which will soon be 60 days in-lamb (I hope).
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
I’ve got 8 weeks!
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
Put the new teaser in with the Feb lambing flock 10 daze ago.
He's a very happy camper!
He'll have a bit of a rest, then it's the April flock for him.
Have a feeling he'll become just as good natured as his predecessor was.
He's a very happy camper!
He'll have a bit of a rest, then it's the April flock for him.
Have a feeling he'll become just as good natured as his predecessor was.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
All of my (Cambridge) teasers seem to become very laid back within a few months of starting the first season here. They move from one mob to the next, so I guess they’re constantly in the post-coital cigarette phase.
I fetched them in from the March lambing mob today, put harnesses on them and let them in with a bunch of synchronised ET recipients. In two days time, they’ll be back out to bother those March lambers, before getting to play with another bunch of ET ewes, then the 500 April lambers and the ewe lambs. It’s no wonder they’re always happy.
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
9 and a half till the Cheviot and bfl (maybe an aberwhatsit) tups are put to work.
farmer92
Member
- Location
- Northamptonshire
3 weeks to go here
Ciderman8961
Member
250 ewes tupped for mid Jan
Tips going out soon with 200 for March lambing then 1200 ewes to lamb end of April too many losses last Easter with the main flock so going a bit later.
Tips going out soon with 200 for March lambing then 1200 ewes to lamb end of April too many losses last Easter with the main flock so going a bit later.
- Location
- West Wales
How have the previous years been lambing earlier than end of April? You can’t base 1 sh1te year in a 100 on anything to be honest. We had serious snow for the first time since 74? As we started lambing the main bunch, this year the rams will be in the same time again. We’re writing off everything we learnt from this year and all the changes we’d planned before hand that maybe havnt worked out right we’ll try again next lambing and hope for a normal year.
The main thing we’ve learnt from the last 6 months is Heil Exlana!
- Location
- North Antrim
tell me more about the exlana.( what they are doing right, I know what they are through the forum.)
- Location
- West Wales
Get up and go is fantastic, growth rates have been impeccable and considering they were out of complete brokers/gummers they’ve done far better than some of our young mule ewes with texel lambs. I’ve kept 4 twin ram lambs back, 21wk weight ranging from 48-55kg. We are in a massive high risk fly strike area where we get issues from early March until early November every year and the Exlana x lambs we have not put a single bit of Clikzin on, I don’t think we’ve even trimmed a backside and they’ve been on some good clover leys and are still holding clean yet we’re trimming every other lamb on the farm now the grass is so lush.
The lambs are also weighing very well dead, mainly R’s if you were wondering.
- Location
- North Antrim
Interesting, it would be the weights rather than the grades I would be interested in, E's and Us are a complete red herring as far as I'm concerned. How would they kill out at say 44 kilos(roughly).
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I ‘liked’ your post for the comment on not changing anything on the basis of this year, not the ‘exlana’ bit (of which I have no experience).
I’m planning on doing exactly the same as last year, but tupping a few extra ewe lambs with a view to selling empties fat in the Spring and avoiding carrying passengers. Ewe numbers might drift up by another 50 or so, but that will depend on how many extra culls I find when I go through them in a few weeks.
With no idea what next year will bring for sheep fortunes, I’m planning on carrying on the same and hoping for the best, like most will be I suspect.
Rams out next week, had a food journalist here today, took him to see the rams as part of the farm tour........just as they went into full blown "Gay Ram" mode with them jumping each other.
Lots of rumpy pumpy.....journo did not know where to point his camera.......
Lots of rumpy pumpy.....journo did not know where to point his camera.......