Anyone ever send a Ram to Sheep Ireland for CPT?

Cran

Anyone ever send a Ram to Sheep Ireland for CPT on here. Sent a fella yesterday and just interested to know if any benefits or not to figures or do you get much feedback on their performance the following year?

Lastin

Hi Cran they collected one here last Thursday , Fingers crossed he will pass all health tests and will provide good semen. I presume using him this way will lift the reliability figures for my flock?

Cran

Lastin wrote: »

Hi Cran they collected one here last Thursday , Fingers crossed he will pass all health tests and will provide good semen. I presume using him this way will lift the reliability figures for my flock?

Thats what I'm hoping too, do they scrapie test and what health tests do they complete? First year recording with some excellent results from new ram who was unrecorded, so a novice to this

What do you breed Lastin?

Lastin

2 novices so, I think they only test for contagious diseases and lice/scab. Hopefully none of these will be issues. We breed charollais sheep here as you do I think? H15

rancher

Lastin wrote: »

2 novices so, I think they only test for contagious diseases and lice/scab. Hopefully none of these will be issues. We breed charollais sheep here as you do I think? H15

We send a couple rams every year for CPT
I gave them a ram lamb and an adult ram for testing this year. It does improve the accuracy, But for some reason it destroys their lambing figure here, We'd put the CPT rams with the ewe lambs when they come home so if they were genuinely only 2 star for lambing we'd know about it before sheep Ireland would.....doesn't make sense. Ease of lambing would be one of the selling points of vendeen ,so would be important.

Lastin

I would imagine with the cpt flocks lambing to sponged service, that over sheperding might be an issue as lambers might not have time to let ewes lamb themselves at times of high pressure.

sheeper

Was it a Vendeen ram you sent in to them ? And is it possible to go to and see the rams ?

rancher

sheeper wrote: »

Was it a Vendeen ram you sent in to them ? And is it possible to go to and see the rams ?

Yes I sent two vendeens
As for seeing the rams, biosecurity is very important as you can imagine. Stephen Potterton in sheep Ireland is in charge of that part, he might be worth asking.
They're starting inseminations on farms on Friday I think and they're training and testing rams all this week

Cran

Lastin wrote: »

2 novices so, I think they only test for contagious diseases and lice/scab. Hopefully none of these will be issues. We breed charollais sheep here as you do I think? H15

Very good your not far from me at all, I'm H1 we most organize a new breeders meet up some time.

Cran

rancher wrote: »

We'd put the CPT rams with the ewe lambs when they come home so if they were genuinely only 2 star for lambing we'd know about it before sheep Ireland would.....doesn't make sense. Ease of lambing would be one of the selling points of vendeen ,so would be important.

Makes sense was going to put another lamb with some ewe lambs might use the CPT lamb instead now to see.

rancher

Cran wrote: »

Makes sense was going to put another lamb with some ewe lambs might use the CPT lamb instead now to see.

At least you'd be sure he is fertile