What size lambing pens

[Wbarker96]

How many pens does everyone one have. Ran out again.standard lambing tradition. We've got 40 pens for 150 ewes

 

[yellowbelly]

How many pens does everyone one have.

Somehow, never quite enough.

 

[slaney]

How many pens does everyone one have. Ran out again.standard lambing tradition. We've got 40 pens for 150 ewes

Unless you've a very compact lambing or leave ewes in stall for quite a while i thought 40 would be enough.

 

[Wbarker96]

Unless you've a very compact lambing or leave ewes in stall for quite a while i thought 40 would be enough.

Ewes are staying in a day or two but getting around twenty a day so pens soon get full

 

[beltextexel]

You not found your way to that sofa yet bill?

 

[Lovegoodstock]

I generally have a quarter of what I need until about midnight, then as I lamb my partner builds more, will it change this year? No, part of lambing tradition!! Lamb 900 ewe lambs doubt we have more than 70/80, out for four or five hours a day but in the rest. What lambs out ok and sucks stays out, but also weather tends to be better as lamb bit later and hopefully grass, so if suckled and its dry there out asap

 

[Punch]

We always argue over ours which are 3'3 x 5. I think is too small so I double pen to 6'6 x 5. Then get shouted down. Always bigger for triplets & quads. Is there any minimum size for welfare?

 

[daithi]

I use the solway pens. I think 5x5 very good pens but expensive but should last a long time. We have 42 pens for 350 ewes

 

[JohnGalway]

I thought I had just enough pens this year, until about 12 ewes decided to lamb in two days in spells of torrential rain. Would just have the last, final, make shift pallet and trailer side pen made when another bitch would be over on her side popping a set of twins out

That wasn't fun.

 

[Sheep92]

we ran out of pens every day last week but we have got to the stage now that they will not be filled again this year its some relief! we have 100 pens for 1000 lambing indoors

 

[jonny]

Used to have 30 pens for 300 ewes now have 50 with headgates for fostering that can be fitted into any pen

 

[scottish-lleyn]

We used to have 280 5x4 pens when we lambed 1500 inside. Hate pens

 

[debe]

4x4, bigger for triplets and Suffolks. About 90 for 400 ewes and 100 ewe lambs. Still didn't have enough....