The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: debbigord on March 02, 2014, 07:55:45 pm
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I had my girls scanned this year as the ram didn't seem up to much. I was disappointed to find only one was expecting twins and the rest were empty. My girl with twins is now looking heavy in the bottom of the belly, but not bagged up yet. But three or four of my other girls look the same, look really pregnant to me...... The ram went in Nov 15th and the scanner came 25th Jan, do you think there is any possibility of error? Has anyone ever experienced the scanner being wrong?
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How experienced was your scanner? It was maybe a little bit soon to scan - our very good scanner on the moorland farm used to scan on Feb 6th for sheep who'd been tupped from Nov 6th, so yours was scanning three weeks sooner than that. Plus - how long was the ram with them? Could he have tupped them second, or even third cycle?
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The 1st due date is about 9/4/14 so they shouldn't be bagging up yet
We scan at the same interval as you quote and every year get maybe 1 out of 900 wrong , (usually a trip not a twin)
Could be a poss of error but unlikely IMO----but I am guessing if you still have them you don't intend to cull them so you will find out in due course!
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Thanks for the replies, time will tell I suppose!