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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Shire1980 on April 26, 2020, 07:27:50 pm

Title: Suffolk cycle
Post by: Shire1980 on April 26, 2020, 07:27:50 pm

My neighbours Jacob got into last years batch of texel lambs around November and one lambed yesterday.
I also have a flock of Suffolks and its made me think I should just lamb everything outside around this time of year instead of in the shed in February as this year the weather was terrible until recently.

Can I put a tup in with Suffolks at the end of November or is that too late?

Title: Re: Suffolk cycle
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 27, 2020, 01:18:13 pm

My tups went out end Nov last year.  I was fed up of scrabbling for grass and worrying about milk supplies. 

However I have no experience of tupping and lambing Suffolks this late.  My instinct says they would tup fine but I’ve no personal experience go back that up.

Title: Re: Suffolk cycle
Post by: shep53 on April 27, 2020, 05:57:58 pm

Many suffolks are lambed in march & april , if the flock does not want to sell well grown ram lambs but only shearlings  then this is the norm , you may get a few less lambs but the costs will be slashed

Title: Re: Suffolk cycle
Post by: harmony on April 28, 2020, 10:01:38 am

Quote from: shep53 on April 27, 2020, 05:57:58 pm

Many suffolks are lambed in march & april , if the flock does not want to sell well grown ram lambs but only shearlings  then this is the norm , you may get a few less lambs but the costs will be slashed

And a lot less work.

Title: Re: Suffolk cycle
Post by: Shire1980 on May 01, 2020, 02:01:31 pm

Thanks for the replies. Next year I'll aim to lamb in April.