General sheep thread

Teaser ram ram let off with my ewes, is it 16 days, take him away and let the ram off?

Had similar two years ago, split the ewe and ram lambs into two separate batches and 5 days later tested and the ram lambs came back 3 times higher than the ewe lambs, were both run together till then in the same grazing area, the vet that done the test said she had seen this happen a couple of times and had no answer. Lambs were dosed as per count and thrived away.

You could have 2 problems there - wormer resistance and a sward lacking in herbal elements, low DM, heavy wet covers etc.

Not too many lambs in the marts fed enough to make it, there seems to be great demand for well fed lambs.

hi, I’ve a few pedigree Suffolk ewe lambs here that are well grown but not pushed that I was considering putting an easy lambing ram with.

I like the look of the borris type sheep and I was half tempted to try a Cheviot ram on, I know it’s the wrong way round but I thought it might be a nice type for a commercial ewe. Has anyone tried it or any other suggestions of a cross that might work without bursting them their first year round.

yes I done that cross here years ago, the ewes weren’t pb but weren’t far off it.
pros;

best mothers to mind lambs and had good milk.
lambs done very well from them.

they seemed very clean

if crossed with a Suffolk again the lambs had a nice speckle to them-the ewe lambs went well in the mart.
cons;

they were fierce strong big sheep, you’d want to be in tip top shape yourself to handle them, and they were a touch flighty.
overall I think they were the best ewes we had here for years, and it only happened by accident when we got a Cheviot ram as part payment for something

Worth around €80 at the minute in the mart

got the fec sample today and huge resistant to yellow and white wormers here now.
also cocida present.

What’s the best to treat cocidi.
was recombined to treat that first then tackle the round worm present

had it present here too

I like the Sufftex rams but I’m not a fan of the aberfields. I know one man who breeds them all the time and says that they are far easier lambed and take a lot less work. It’s just one of those breeds to me that doesn’t know whether it’s a goat a donkey a deer or a giraffe. They could be the most profitable but I wouldn’t like looking at them.

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