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Housing ewes

  • 02-02-2014 8:20pm
    #1
    Green farmer
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    How long before the due date, do people house their ewes in a lowland setup ? Mine are due the 1st April and I was going to house them a week before hand, in a bid to minimise disease and keep them healthy.


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  • #2
    sea12
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    How long before the due date, do people house their ewes in a lowland setup ? Mine are due the 1st April and I was going to house them a week before hand, in a bid to minimise disease and keep them healthy.

    Mine are due the same time and I would also house them about 10 days before that to allow for a few early ones. Its just easier to feed when there out thats my reason.


  • #3
    Username John
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Mine are due the same time and I would also house them about 10 days before that to allow for a few early ones. Its just easier to feed when there out thats my reason.

    Mine due from mid march, but same as Sea. Bring em in bout a week to 10 days beforehand, as its just easier.


  • #4
    rancher
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    How long before the due date, do people house their ewes in a lowland setup ? Mine are due the 1st April and I was going to house them a week before hand, in a bid to minimise disease and keep them healthy.

    As long as they're on the same diet there should be no problem, some times a change in diet in the last few weeks can bring on twin lamb disease


  • #5
    paddysdream
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    Find that the longer you leave them out the easier they are to lamb.Saying that,have all my early and February/March lambing ewes housed at the moment.

    The way the weather has been for the last two winters its easier on man and sheep(and grass!) to have them in under cover.Beet tops have become nearly a thing of the past around here since the sugar industry ended.One time used to take lots of these from pure tillage men and was an excellent way of running ewes for the winter whilst saving up grass covers at home.

    If you are anyways heavily stocked with sheep or have big numbers(not to mention poaching!) then don't see any option but to house ewes.

    Even so have hoggets and ewe lambs out on grass at home still.Conditions aint good to say the least as they are confined to a couple of fields.
    Bit depressing looking at wet dirty sheep huddled around silage feeders at the moment.


  • #6
    AnFeirmeoir
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    paddysdream wrote: »
    Bit depressing looking at wet dirty sheep huddled around silage feeders at the moment.

    Thats what i'm looking at !:(


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