Author Topic: Ram blues (Read 1500 times)

Fishyhaddock · « **on:** November 06, 2014, 10:40:13 pm »

Another lesson for us today.
Woke up this morning to find our rig / tup lamb dead.
In the neighbouring field the 2 yr old Suffolk tup carries on with his business.
It appears that they have fought through the fence and the little one came off worse for wear with a broken neck presumably.
We should not have put them in adjacent fields.
Thought I would share just in case anyone else is about to make the same mistake we did.
Fishy.

Bionic · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2014, 09:00:58 am »

Awww, very sorry to hear that.

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2014, 10:31:13 am »

The same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, but he was an aggressive ram. Thankfully he got them all in lamb. Am so sorry to hear about that, have you got a backup ram and what breed was he?

Fishyhaddock · « **Reply #3 on:** November 07, 2014, 07:57:47 pm »

Hi, Yes we have another ram in a field well away from the Suffolk! Didn't think the rig would show ram tendencies as bottle fed and tame with us. How wrong can you be! $:-\$