ewe scanning results

hedgecutting eddie

decided to put 50 ewes to the ram the 8th of august till sept ,scanned yesterday had 17singles
30 doubles
3 triplets
o empties
so thats 1.72 would have liked more doubles but happy all inlamb because ewes werent sponged !

has anyone scanned ewes and how did ye get on ?

razor8

you cant complain with them results

what breed of ewes have you?

Username John

Hi Eddie,

Well done, they are good results.

See thread here - which I discussed my (not good) scanning results.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75050392

I had a lot of empties, as you can see...

I would be interested in hearing what breed you have, and what you did before you put in the ram, and how long the ram was with em.

hedgecutting eddie

Username John wrote: »

Hi Eddie,

Well done, they are good results.

See thread here - which I discussed my (not good) scanning results.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75050392

I had a lot of empties, as you can see...

I would be interested in hearing what breed you have, and what you did before you put in the ram, and how long the ram was with em.

mostly lleyn crosses and few suffolk and texel crosses,they were the best 50 ewes i had. Injected them with a cheap worm dose and dosed them with a good dose of cobalt and have a mineral bucket alot of the year! i put all my charolais rams with them,5 seems alot but was for handyness more than anything,rams were with the ewes for 4 weeks,they were on 5 acres of very good grass

neighbour scanned his 50 same day he had 3 empties
9 triplets
25 doubles
13 singles

he mostly has belcare crosses

roosky

scanned yesterday 40 ewes ....
1 triplet
7 sngles
32 doubles

happy out all n lamb

had 15 ewe lambs didn go so well 5 emptys, 2 doubles and 8 singles whats the crack with that they were all run together with ewes so why such a difference

hedgecutting eddie

was always told u should always run ur ewe lambs seperate from the ewes that the ram will always follow the ewes instead

Username John

roosky wrote: »

scanned yesterday 40 ewes ....
1 triplet
7 sngles
32 doubles

happy out all n lamb

had 15 ewe lambs didn go so well 5 emptys, 2 doubles and 8 singles whats the crack with that they were all run together with ewes so why such a difference

Hi Roosky,

Great results there. You have a lot of doubles, which is good.
Re ewe lambs - dont know, as I only put em to the ram when they hoggets.

Would be interested to hear what breed / cross sheep you have. And also what you do in the run up to putting them with the ram.

Thanks.

kboc

hedgecutting eddie wrote: »

was always told u should always run ur ewe lambs seperate from the ewes that the ram will always follow the ewes instead

I red on the www that Lleyn can be tupped as ewe lambs, that this is common practice in England. I was talking to a Lleyn breeder from N.Ireland last week, he seem to think it was ok once they reach 24kg's before tupping

Does many people do this or do you wait until their second winter?

Thanks

rancher

kboc wrote: »

I red on the www that Lleyn can be tupped as ewe lambs, that this is common practice in England. I was talking to a Lleyn breeder from N.Ireland last week, he seem to think it was ok once they reach 24kg's before tupping

Does many people do this or do you wait until their second winter?

Thanks

Follow up to my mating post...160 ewes scanned
34 triplets
10 singles
4 barren, but will be scanned again
112 doubles
ewes are lleyns out of suffolk and texel ewes
scanner said most were between 65 and 75 days inlamb, so the teasing worked really well,
On ewelambs, I find that the best results are got if they're mated in november, and they're not run with mature ewes,
Also wouldn't like to breed them until they were 40 kgs

roosky

Username John wrote: »

Hi Roosky,

Great results there. You have a lot of doubles, which is good.
Re ewe lambs - dont know, as I only put em to the ram when they hoggets.

Would be interested to hear what breed / cross sheep you have. And also what you do in the run up to putting them with the ram.

Thanks.

ya they are all suffolk cross ewes that are very much suffolk ......all tipped a ch and a texel ram....

all the ewes were starved for 5/6 weeks and the let to goo after grass for about 3 or four weeks .....both these times depended on individual condition

i put the two rams the other side of the fence from them for a week pre tupping and this ment that about forty of the fifty will lamb in 3 weeks

razor8

what are ye guys paying for scanning? I get charged 90 cents for 350 ewes which are in three different places. i have no problems with the scanner as he is nearly always spot on with singles and doubles but can miss a good few triplets

roosky

well 75 euro for 55 sheep but different set up due to numbers!!!



my fella likes to scan bout 60 days as if it goes to 80 or 90 its v hard to tell between doubles and triplets

fodda

Is everybody getting out of sheep?

Online Ads seem to be full of sheep or sheep in lamb or sheep with lambs for sale at the moment asking extremely high prices which appear to be higher than any return possible.

Some Ads offer entire stock and these Ads are appearing at the rate of every couple of hours.

roosky

fodda wrote: »

Is everybody getting out of sheep?

Online Ads seem to be full of sheep or sheep in lamb or sheep with lambs for sale at the moment asking extremely high prices which appear to be higher than any return possible.

Some Ads offer entire stock and these Ads are appearing at the rate of every couple of hours.

god no if anything everyone is getting in....well round me any way

i think the reason for the ads is anyone that is thinking of changing system or retireing ...etc.... that the money is so good for sheep that they are just flogging them

fodda

roosky wrote: »

god no if anything everyone is getting in....well round me any way

i think the reason for the ads is anyone that is thinking of changing system or retireing ...etc.... that the money is so good for sheep that they are just flogging them

I understand but how do you make money on a ewe in lamb at 240.00 euro?

Lamb on its own going for 75.00 to 100.00 and a ewe going for 120.00 to 140.00............I think i would rather wait for the lamb to be born and fed by someone else..........some mad prices asked.

Birdnuts

roosky wrote: »

god no if anything everyone is getting in....well round me any way

i think the reason for the ads is anyone that is thinking of changing system or retireing ...etc.... that the money is so good for sheep that they are just flogging them

Thats true - I even know a few stud farms back near my parent place in North Kildare that have brought in sheep to graze paddocks during the winter in the last year or 2.. Sheep numbers are certainly rocketing in many places, I hope it all doesn't end in tears like our property boom!!

roosky

oh the prices are pure lunacy ...seen a ewe with two lambs on donedeal for 360 .....but alot of that could be lads chancing thier arm not pushed about selling

at the same time i gave 160 nfor good hoggets two years ago and thier lambs averaged 115 euro a piece !

Birdnuts

Does anyone know whats underpinning such prices?? - surely with much of Europe in the doldrums it can't be coming from there, or is the reduction of sheep numbers in the likes of New Zealand/Australia the cause

roosky

the sheep numbers were down by alot for the last few year this caused a rise in price of lamb from factory and hence farmers got interested again and hence the high prices !!!

my fear is it will go full circle and cause a drop in prices again

hedgecutting eddie

scanned the rest of the ewes this evening went very well

ewe lambs
singles 15
doubles18
emties 5
1.545% doesnt include empty ones when workin out the %

only had the ram with ewe lambs for 3 weeks

ewes
singles 35
doubles 118
triplets 14
empties 1 (she has 2 dead lambs inside her)
1.867%

very happy with de results

supersean1999

hedgecutting eddie wrote: »

scanned the rest of the ewes this evening went very well

ewe lambs
singles 15
doubles18
emties 5
1.545% doesnt include empty ones when workin out the %

only had the ram with ewe lambs for 3 weeks

ewes
singles 35
doubles 118
triplets 14
empties 1 (she has 2 dead lambs inside her)
1.867%

very happy with de results

im not suprised your happy , good results, fair play