When to you remove the Tups from the flock?
- Thread starter JoeFo
- Start date
MDL POWERUP
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About 6 month ago
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
At shearing...
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
When they look like they are going to croak it. Beltex 4 weeks after going in. Charolais week after
texel at lambing
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Boxing day
- Location
- Fife
This year was a 28 day tupping.
Next year I'm thinking tease, maternal tups for 17 days then a terminal sweeper for 11 days.
Next year I'm thinking tease, maternal tups for 17 days then a terminal sweeper for 11 days.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If you’re going more than 17 days then why not another full cycle?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
2 cycles and a couple of days here normally. Left a ram longer with one group this year as unsure if he’d tupped them all after he got a scab on his todger. Only 10 repeats from his 123 ewes as it happens, so obviously has a high pain threshold!
That mob started lambing on April 1st, with the last one yesterday.
The one before was 10 days previously.
That mob started lambing on April 1st, with the last one yesterday.
The one before was 10 days previously.
- Location
- Fife
28 days lambing is quite long enough
- Location
- Fife
2 cycles and a couple of days here normally. Left a ram longer with one group this year as unsure if he’d tupped them all after he got a scab on his todger. Only 10 repeats from his 123 ewes as it happens, so obviously has a high pain threshold!
That mob started lambing on April 1st, with the last one yesterday.
Why not 3 cycles?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Why not 3 cycles?
By that time he had to stay until I could be arsed to get them in.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Christmas Eve
- Location
- West Country
2 cycles and a couple of days here normally. Left a ram longer with one group this year as unsure if he’d tupped them all after he got a scab on his todger. Only 10 repeats from his 123 ewes as it happens, so obviously has a high pain threshold!
That mob started lambing on April 1st, with the last one yesterday.
Theres honest marketing for you; “My Charollais will get the job done, even with a scabby dick!”
- Location
- Devon
I remove them as a flock starts to get fed/ housed for lambing as they need neither and I'd rather have a bit of outdoor lambing in June than empty ewes.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Theres honest marketing for you; “My Charollais will get the job done, even with a scabby dick!”
It wasn't a Charollais, it was one of those scabby looking, shedding ones. Tough as nails to put up with that I reckon.
- Location
- Yorkshire
At night
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
I’d love to cut it down to that.
My tups are in for 35 days, but hill flock works 3 weeks behind the cross ewes. It’s a long 8 week stint.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
take mine out when they come in for lambing , anything very late can lamb outside by itself and be sold as a couple , Rarely get them hung (charollais)
