[devonlad]

Is it true or just one of those old bits of farming folklore. We one had 9 out of 11 ram lambs using an old boy and a friend has just done 9 out of 10 using an old Suffolk someone lent him

[Gunnermark]

i have the opposite in the last 2 years. A 2 tooth gave me 7 ram lambs and 3 ewe lambs previous year an old boy produced less lambs but an equal split of 3 and 3.

[trish.farm]

I had 14 rams out of 17 lambs.  Tup I used was 4 years old!!

[ZaktheLad]

Last year I had 10 ram lambs and 3 ewe lambs. This year so far 5 ewes have produced 8 ewe lambs and 3 ram lambs. That's using the same ram as last year and he is just turned 3 years old. 3 more left to lamb.

[beagh-suffolks]

i used a ram lamb this year and had 92 rams and 17 females

[Thyme]

i used a ram lamb this year and had 92 rams and 17 females

After which your ram lamb was passed out dead from exhaustion? 

[princesslayer]

 Small sample size, but I've had three ewe lambs and 2 rams from using a ram lamb on my four ewes. One ewe left to go.

[Backinwellies]

Well I have done a scientific experiment (not intentionally!)  .... by putting half flock to 2 year old and half to 5 yr old ram  ...........  done rather before I read this thread and for no other reason than I couldn't put daughters back to father ............... result

old   4 females and 10 males              young  4 males and 15 females

pretty conclusive!

[Melmarsh]

Well folks my ram is 4 last Jan: poll Dorset  This year 50:50 Last year 50:50
A 5 year old Southdown I had gave high percentage of Males first year but the following year the reverse, more Females.
A friend of my mothers once left her ewes with us because we always had a high percentage of females and she always had all males. All her ewes had females and then she moaned because she couldn't keep them all !!!
Never satisfied eh !!!

[Ladygrey]

Ram lamb has produced 54 lambs so far, of which 60% are ewe lambs!

The shearling ram has produced 50% of each

[Hellybee]

We ve had 80 pc females so far. 

[devonlady]

Old Texel ram= 80% ram lambs.

[Jukes Mum]

Sheerling tup: 50:50 (sample size- a massive total of 4 lambs  )

[Marches Farmer]

Poultry folklore holds that young cockerels produce mostly hens (more to mate with next year?) then more males as they grow older.  Our two year old Badger Face ram has produced 80% ram lambs so far this year.  The Southdowns started out as all ewe lambs but the rams are now catchng up and we'll likely end up wth the usual 40% ram lambs.

[Hellybee]

I read that some people think that putting ACV in drinking water can help the amount of females.  Amongst a myriad of other things x